Dedication

pp v-vi

Contents

pp vii-viii

List of figures and tables

pp ix-ix

Series Editors’ Preface

pp x-x

Acknowledgements

pp xi-xi

Notes on contributors

pp xii-xviii

One - Arts, culture and community development: introductory essay

pp 1-18

Part 1 - Making and sharing collective meanings

pp 19-20

Two - Reflections on the decolonising dance praxis of Grupo Bayano

pp 21-40

Three - The power of song

pp 41-50

Four - ‘The people awoke awake’: observations from Beirut’s walls in the 17 October moment

pp 51-72

Five - Muralism, disputes and imaginaries of community resistance: case studies from settlements in Santiago de Chile and Rio de Janeiro

pp 73-88

Six - Contemporary expressions of arts and culture as protest: consonance, dissonance, paradox and opportunities for community development?

pp 89-110

Seven - Queering community development in DIY punk spaces

pp 111-128

Part 2 - Negotiating practice and policy

pp 129-130

Eight - Access to communication as resistance and struggle in the 21st century

pp 131-150

Nine - Unholy alliance or way of the future? The intertwinements of community development, cultural planning and cultural industries in municipal and regional cultural strategies in Finland

pp 151-172

Ten - Frameworks for assessing and reconsidering empowerment in community arts

pp 173-194

Eleven - Maintaining a critical approach to collaborative art and youth work practice in neoliberal times

pp 195-212

Twelve - The kinaesthetics of community: social circus, corporeal aesthetics and the balancing act of a development practice in (post-)neoliberal conditions

pp 213-230

Thirteen - Building peaceful communities: collaboration and co-creation through theatre

pp 231-240

Afterword

pp 241-246

Index

pp 247-253