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Author Barnes, Hazel

Title Arts Activism, Education, and Therapies : Transforming Communities Across Africa
Published Amsterdam : Editions Rodopi, 2014

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Description 1 online resource (307 pages)
Contents Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Acknowledgements; List of Figures and Tables; Introduction; Art for Social Change; Imagination and Agency: Facilitating Social Change through the Visual Arts; Theatre in Combat with Violence: The University of Zimbabwe Department of Theatre Arts and Amani Trust Popular Travelling Theatre Project on Political Violence and Torture -- Some Basic and Non-Basic Contradictions; Dance as a Communication Tool: AddressingInter-Generational Trauma for a Healthier Psycho-SocialEnvironment in Rwanda and the Great Lakes Region of Africa
Exploring Conflict Management Strategies throughApplied Drama: A Wits University Case StudyDancing Drumming and Drawing the Unspeakable:An Exploration of an Arts-Based Programme as ComplementaryInterventions in the Diversion of Youth Sex Offenders; Arty, Africa, and Healing; Music, Musicality, and Musicking:Between Therapy and Everyday Life; Catharsis and Critical Reflection in IsiZulu Prison Theatre:A Case Study from Westville Correctional Facility in Durban; In Between Activism and Education: Intervention Theatre in Kenya; Washa Mollo: Theatre as a Milieu for Conversations and Healing
The Keep Them Safe 2010 Project: Using Story to Structurea Programme with Sustainable Impact for 7,000 ChildrenElephant in the Theatre: The Ethics and Politics ofNarration in an International Collaboration; Supporting Educators to Support Learners: An ArtCounselling Intervention with Educators; Performing Cultural Memory and the Symbolic: The MusicalTheatre Traditions of the Basarwa in the Ghanzi District, Botswana; Christine's Room: Re/Voicing the Document; Arts and Aesthetics; Applied Art Is Still Art, and By AnyOther Name Would Smell As Sweet
Dramatic Art at the Frontiers of Ontology:Reconsidering AestheticsPostcards on the Aesthetic of Hope in Applied Theatre; Researching the Theatricality and Aesthetics of Applied Theatre; Notes on Contributors; Onomastic Index; Notes for Contributors
Summary This second volume of research emanating from Drama for Life, University of the Witwatersrand, explores the transformative and healing qualities of the arts in South Africa, Botswana, Cameroon, Kenya, Rwanda, and Zimbabwe. Essays on arts for social change illuminate the difficulties of conflict-resolution (in war-scarred countries, tertiary institutions, and child-offender programmes) to promote broader understanding of diversity and difference. Further essays focus on arts and healing, in which music therapy diagnoses, repairs, sustains, and enhances collective health. Intervention theatre -
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Subject Internet and activism.
Essay -- 19th century
Essay -- 20th century
Psychotherapy.
Sociology.
Decision making.
Rehabilitation.
Medical rehabilitation.
Personnel management.
Therapeutics, Physiological.
Alternative medicine.
Social sciences.
Human behavior.
Social psychology.
Therapeutics.
Organization.
Thought and thinking.
Human information processing.
Health services administration.
Medical care.
Art therapy.
Social change.
Misinformation.
Socioeconomic Factors
Sensory Art Therapies
Psychotherapy
Sociology
Decision Making
Communication
Interpersonal Relations
Rehabilitation
Personnel Management
Complementary Therapies
Social Sciences
Behavior
Population Characteristics
Behavioral Disciplines and Activities
Psychology, Social
Therapeutics
Organization and Administration
Thinking
Information Science
Behavior and Behavior Mechanisms
Mental Processes
Psychiatry and Psychology
Health Services Administration
Analytical, Diagnostic and Therapeutic Techniques and Equipment
Anthropology, Education, Sociology and Social Phenomena
Delivery of Health Care
Psychological Phenomena and Processes
Negotiating
Art Therapy
Social Change
Patient Care Management
Patient Care Management -- methods
Patient Care
sociology.
decision making.
pardons.
social sciences.
human behavior.
social psychology.
thinking.
art therapy.
treating (health care function)
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Composition & Creative Writing.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Rhetoric.
REFERENCE -- Writing Skills.
Thought and thinking
Therapeutics, Physiological
Therapeutics
Sociology
Social sciences
Social psychology
Social change
Rehabilitation
Psychotherapy
Personnel management
Organization
Medical rehabilitation
Medical care
Human information processing
Human behavior
Health services administration
Decision making
Art therapy
Alternative medicine
Essay
Internet and activism
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9789401210546
9401210543
9042038071
9789042038073
1306738563
9781306738569