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Art and Intercultural Dialogue

  • This book presents a connection between art and intercultural dialogue
  • This is a collection of international art intervention projects which are highly successful, innovative, and creative, promoting active citizenship
  • The international dimension of the book, covering voices from many countries and cultures and giving examples of intercultural projects spread through many forms of art, from literature to theatre from architecture to visual arts, from cinema to photography

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Table of contents (16 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xii
  2. The Power of Art: General Dimensions

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
    2. We and They

      • Susana Gonçalves
      Pages 3-23
    3. An Interculturalist Declaration of Principles

      • Ana Mae Barbosa
      Pages 25-37
  3. Art as Medium: Dissent, Dissection and Agency

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 53-53
    2. Art and Dissent

      • Milena Dragićević Šešić, Goran Tomka
      Pages 55-68
    3. Artistic Expressions as Tools for Mediator Action

      • Paloma Gómez Crespo, Carlos Giménez Romero
      Pages 69-84
    4. Art, Intervention and Action for Cultural Transformation

      • M. Ángeles Carnacea Cruz
      Pages 85-95
    5. The Power and Subversiveness of Literature

      • Florin Oprescu
      Pages 97-112
    6. Social Transformation in the Eyes of Contemporary Chinese Cinema and Dogme 95

      • Tomé Saldanha Quadros, Émilie Tran
      Pages 113-127
  4. Dialogues Through Art: Cases, Projects and Voices

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 141-141
    2. Voices and Positions

      • Andri Savva, Nopi Telemachou
      Pages 143-160
    3. Teatro De La Escucha

      • Iván Alvarado Castro
      Pages 161-179
    4. Green Architecture, Landscapes and Intercultural Dialogues

      • Nuno Martins, Claudia Pato Carvalhol
      Pages 181-195
    5. Enredadas Exhibitions Project

      • Angeles Saura
      Pages 197-215
    6. Beauty, Participation and Inclusion

      • Cristian Campagnaro, Valentina Porcellana
      Pages 217-231
    7. Shared Reflections and Dialogues

      • Christine Ballengee Morris, B. Stephen Carpenter II
      Pages 233-246
    8. Arts and the Voice of Youth in Dialogue

      • Ana Paula Caetano, Isabel Freire, Susana Vassalo, Elsa Machado, Lisete Bicho
      Pages 247-261

About this book

How can art act as an intercultural mediator for dialogue? In order to scrutinize this question, relevant theoretical ideas are discussed and artistic intervention projects examined so as to highlight its cultural, political, economic, social, and transformational impacts. This thought-provoking work reveals why art is needed to help multicultural neighbourhoods and societies be sustainable, as well as united by diversity. This edited collection underlines the significance of arts and media as a tool of understanding, mediation, and communication across and beyond cultures. The chapters with a variety of conceptual and methodological approaches from particular contexts demonstrate the complexity in the dynamics of (inter)cultural communication, culture, identity, arts, and media. Overall, the collection encourages readers to consider themselves as agents of the communication process promoting dialogue.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Instituto Politécnico de Coimbra, ESEC, Portugal

    Susana Gonçalves

  • UIDEF, Instituto de Educação, Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal

    Susana Gonçalves

  • University of Western Ontario, Canada

    Suzanne Majhanovich

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