Using art for social transformation : international perspective for social workers, community workers and art therapists / edited by Eltje Bos and Ephrat Huss.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Bos, Eltje, editor.

Huss, Ephrat, editor.

Taylor & Francis eBooks

Series:

Routledge advances in social work

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Social sciences--Study and teaching.

Social sciences.

Arts and society--Study and teaching.

Arts and society.

Social change--Study and teaching.

Social change.

Community development--Study and teaching.

Community development.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xviii, 278 pages) : illustrations.

Place of Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2023.

Biography/History:

Eltje Bos (PhD) is Professor Emerita of Cultural and Social Dynamics ‎at the University of Applied Sciences Amsterdam. Also trained as a drama teacher, she focused and focuses in her work on the use of arts and creativity in social work as well as on strategies of collaboration to increase personal empowerment and ‎livability in the city. Ephrat Huss (PhD) is Professor of Social Work and Art Therapy at Ben-Gurion ‎University of the Negev. She heads an innovative MA social work specialization ‎that integrates arts in social practice and has 40 students doing social arts ‎projects per year. She has a background in fine arts. Her areas of research ‎are the interface between arts and social practice and arts-based research: using arts ‎as a wayof accessing the voices of marginalized populations. ‎

Contents:

Cover

Half Title

Series

Title

Copyright

Contents

List of figures

List of tables

List of contributors

Introduction

1 Social action art therapy. An Israel context

2 Applied storytelling and picture talk as a tool for system intervention, behavioural change and diminishing polarization

3 Using arts as a contact method in group work with latency age Arab and Jewish youth in Israel

4 Art in society at a time of political and cultural transformation: The Polish case

5 Future IDs at Alcatraz: Transforming lives in immediate and necessary ways

6 Group bonding through cutting, gluing, and sewing together: Using arts and crafts in social work with groups: "When members see what they have done with their own hands, this is a feeling no one can take away"

7 Interacting through art to re-empower prison inmates in constructing new self-appraisals

8 Socia(B)le art: Towards culture for all

9 Jamming through life: Social complexity and the arts

10 Social arts for recognition: Sociological perspectives on arts and youth identities

11 Compassion embodied

the particular power of the arts

12 The art studio as public health practice: Mitigating the negative impacts of social inequality through community care

13 MOMU: A multiprofessional response to a multifaceted reality

14 Using reader's theater to enhance reflexive social work practice, research, and education

15 Harnessing structure and support in music-based activities

16 Madrid, city of women: A project to empower the social participation of women in the city

17 Oh, what a tangled web we weave!: the transformative intentions of socially engaged art

18 The art of making public: the politics of participation in participatory art practices

19 Evaluating arts projects and programmes designed for social impacts: The need for improved methods

20 Human Rights Tattoo: a Zoom conversation between Sander van Bussel, Maria Kint, and Eltje Bos about the Human Rights Tattoo project. 21 December 2021

Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Electronic reproduction. London Available via World Wide Web.

Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on January 17, 2023).

Other Format:

Print version: Using art for social transformation

ISBN:

9781003105350

1003105351

9781000806885

100080688X

9781000806915

100080691X

Publisher Number:

40031515242

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