Drawing on international examples, this original book interrogates the relationship between the arts, cultural practice and community development.
Expert contributors from six continents, consider how different forms of aesthetic arts contribute to processes of peacebuilding, youth empowerment, participatory planning and environmental regeneration.
Investigating ‘cultural democracy’, this exciting text asserts the importance of arts as intrinsically meaningful in a reimagining of community development.

Contributions by: Nilanjana Premaratna, Jennifer Beth Spiegel, Fiona Whelan, Samson Kei Shun Wong, Miikka Pyykkönen, Pradip Ninan Thomas, Ruth Pearce, Kirsty Lohman, Daniel Mutibwa, Apoena Mano, Palloma Menezes, Alexis Cortes, Sarah Shmaitilly, Célia Hassani, Arek Dakessian, Leon Rosselson, Sharon Cronin, Antonia Darder