Creating Justice
Human Rights and Art in Conversation
Eliza Garnsey editor Caitlin Hamilton editor
Format:Hardback
Publisher:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Published:16th Dec '24
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Creating Justice, through a series of conversations between a diverse set of artists and scholars from around the globe, explores how art can facilitate a fuller understanding of human rights, highlight injustices, empower individuals and groups, advocate for and effect change, and aid in post-conflict recovery.
What can art offer to facilitate a fuller understanding of human rights and human rights violations? How do arts-based interventions help to highlight injustices, empower individuals and groups, and advocate for and effect change? How do art practices help to reveal new dimensions of violations and aid in post-conflict recovery?
In this edited volume, twenty-seven artists and scholars, working across a range of practices and approaches, answer these questions – and many more – through a series of conversations. They offer deeply personal reflections on creative labour, sharing original and rich insights into a range of ongoing social and political struggles, violent conflicts, and human rights abuses.
A tour de force across several academic disciplines and artforms, this refreshingly innovative volume creatively reconsiders human rights abuses through exciting, mutually illuminating boundary crossings between the academic and the artistic worlds, too often out of sync with each other. Combining grounded theorizing with autobiographical testimony, it is a must read for anyone seeking to understand the messy and ever-changing reality of political violence and to imagine a way forward. -- Mihaela Mihai, University of Edinburgh
This is an innovative and exciting collection. Drawing together an impressive range of scholars and artists, working across different media and traditions, the assembled conversations illuminate the numerous ways that the arts can contribute to the pursuit of human rights around the world. Rich, rewarding, and challenging, Creating Justice will be of interest to scholars and human rights practitioners. -- Duncan Bell, University of Cambridge
Art is one of our best inventions. In this volume artists and scholars explore how artworks are able to resist and transform the structural violence inherent in Human Rights failures. A welcome contribution to understanding the epistemic differences as well as the ethical and political overlaps between art practice and IR scholarship. -- Lola Frost, King's College London
ISBN: 9781538196359
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230 pages