scholarly journals Creative Expression and Contemporary Arts Making Among Young Cambodians

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Amanda Rogers ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Young Adult ◽  
Young People ◽  
Creative Process ◽  
Khmer Rouge ◽  
Arts And Humanities ◽  
Post Conflict ◽  
Conflict Settings ◽  
The Arts ◽  
Traditional Performance

This project analysed the creative practices and concerns of young adult artists (18-35 years old) in contemporary Cambodia. It examined the extent to which the arts are being used to open up new ways of enacting Cambodian identity that encompass, but also move beyond, a preoccupation with the Khmer Rouge (1975-1979). Existing research has focused on how the recuperation and revival of traditional performance is linked to the post-genocidal reconstruction of the nation. In contrast, this research examines if, and how, young artists are moving beyond the revival process to create works that speak to a young Cambodian population.The research used NGO Cambodian Living Arts’ 2020 Cultural Season of performances, workshops, and talks as a case study through which to examine key concerns of young Cambodian artists, trace how these affected their creative process, and analyse how the resulting works were received among audiences. It was funded through the AHRC GCRF Network Plus Grant ‘Changing the Story’ which uses arts and humanities approaches to ‘build inclusive societies with, and for, young people in post-conflict settings.

scholarly journals Fighting Food Poverty through Film: Or Why Global Challenge Research Needs the Arts and Humanities

Humanities ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 114
Author(s):  
Margaret Topping
Keyword(s):  
Research Impact ◽  
Present Discussion ◽  
Global Challenge ◽  
Arts And Humanities ◽  
The Arts ◽  
Central Case ◽  
Awareness Raising ◽  
Movement Building ◽  
Essential Contribution

Food poverty is just one example of a global challenge where the Arts and Humanities perspective risks being judged at worst to have no relevance at all, and at best to be included as no more than an accessible tool to facilitate public engagement and awareness-raising. How therefore can Arts and Humanities scholars articulate the value of their work in such a way that researchers in other fields are persuaded not only that it brings something new to their understanding of the issues, but that to tackle such questions without this input would leave a significant methodological gap in developing the pathway to research impact? The present discussion takes as its central case study an analysis of the strategies at play to tackle the question of food poverty in French filmmaker Agnès Varda’s 2000 film, Les Glaneurs et la glaneuse [The Gleaners and I]. It then uses this analysis as a springboard to explore how, as Arts and Humanities scholars, we might begin to translate better our methodologies and the unique power of our objects of study to disciplines which tend to dominate research on food security, poverty and sustainability or indeed other challenge-based research. To this end, the present discussion seeks to decipher the power of this methodology in terms of the unique capacity for ‘affect’ of the work of art, and ultimately argues for the essential contribution of Arts and Humanities researchers as ‘brokers’ for movement building and social change.

scholarly journals Critical thinking and the humanities: A case study of conceptualizations and teaching practices at the Section for Cinema Studies at Stockholm University

2020 ◽  
pp. 147402222094879
Author(s):  
Joel Frykholm
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Critical Thinking ◽  
Cinema Studies ◽  
Arts And Humanities ◽  
Political Critique ◽  
The Arts ◽  
Alternative Facts ◽  
Scholarly Pursuit ◽  
Elusive Concept

The raison d’être of the humanities is widely held to reside in its unique ability to generate critical thinking and critical thinkers. But what is “critical thinking?” Is it a generalized mode of reasoning or a form of political critique? How does it relate to discipline-specific practices of scholarly pursuit? How does it relate to discourses of “post-truth” and “alternative facts”? How is it best taught? This essay explores these issues via a case study of conceptualizations of critical thinking among cinema scholars at Stockholm University, whose views are interpreted against the backdrop of (a) debates about the value of the humanities; (b) higher education scholarship on critical thinking; and (c) the legacy of certain disciplinary traditions within cinema studies, especially the paradigms of “post-theory” and “political modernism.” The interviews attest to the persistence of critical thinking as a fundamental, yet highly elusive, concept to higher education in the arts and humanities.

Researching Religion

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Steve Bruce
Keyword(s):  
Social Science ◽  
Religious Studies ◽  
Modern World ◽  
Religion And Spirituality ◽  
Social Patterns ◽  
Arts And Humanities ◽  
Shared Beliefs ◽  
The Arts ◽  
The Social

Basic questions about religion in the modern world (such as whether it is becoming more or less popular and who believes what) can be answered only with the perspectives and methods of social science. While the arts and humanities can help us understand religious beliefs and behaviour, only social science can provide us with the evidence that will allow us to discern and explain the social patterns, causes, and consequences of religious belief. Only through the statistical examination of big data can we be confident of what any case study represents. In a text described by one reviewer as ‘brilliantly accessible’, an internationally renowned sociologist addresses the major problems of theory and methods in the study of religion. Important topics in religious studies such as conversion, the relative durability of different types of religion and spirituality, and the social circumstances that strengthen or undermine shared beliefs are used to demonstrate the importance of social science and to address methodological issues such as bias, partisanship, and research ethics. Bruce presents a robust defence of a conventionally scientific view of value-neutral social science against its partisan and postmodern critics.

Innovation in the Arts

2019 ◽  
pp. 333-352
Author(s):  
Susan Kerrigan
Keyword(s):  
Creative Process ◽  
Successful Completion ◽  
Situational Variables ◽  
The Arts ◽  
Collaborative Activities ◽  
And Task

The filmmaking creative process is staged and task specific, and the success of a film is dependent on filmmaker’s working collaboratively and creatively, in small and large teams, to complete discrete tasks that are frequently iterative and recursive. These tasks are enabled and constrained by situational variables including financial, logistical, technological, aesthetic, and editorial, and the successful completion of the filmmaking tasks is dependent on a filmmaker’s creativity. This practice-led research presents an innovative methodological case study that captures the creative and collaborative activities of a documentary filmmaker and illustrates how filmmakers collaborate with other filmmakers and the community to create a film. Four collaborative principles are identified that describe how filmmakers achieve their goals; the principles reflect group approaches to creative filmmaking practices and, more broadly, the collective nature of arts practice.

Teens and Territory in 'Post-Conflict' Belfast

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Madeleine Leonard
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
City Centre ◽  
Growing Up ◽  
Political Consequences ◽  
Post Conflict ◽  
The Social ◽  
People’S Attitudes ◽  
Insight Into

This book provides a timely and necessary response to the neglect of the perceptions and experiences of young people growing up in ‘post conflict’ societies using Belfast as a case study. Despite a great deal of research on the social, economic and political consequences of sectarianism in Northern Ireland, few studies have examined young people’s attitudes to and experiences of territory. We still know relatively little about how young people relate to concepts such as space, place and territory in divided societies. This book addresses this vacuum. By presenting a detailed rich ethnographic account of how teenagers living in segregated localities in Belfast access and use local and city centre space, the book contributes to knowledge about the role of young people in both sustaining conflict and overcoming divisions. Teenagers’ spatial practices provide insight into how the regenerated, rebranded, repacked, ‘post conflict’ city is experienced, perceived, negotiated and imagined by a group whose voices are often absent or regarded as peripheral. While the book presents a case study of Belfast, its appeal is not limited to those interested in Ireland. Rather, through this detailed case study, the book aims to address wider questions concerning the role of young people in politically contested societies. The book underlines the need to take on board young people’s ways of seeing and contributes to knowledge about appropriate ways to engage young people in research.

The Academic Book of the Future

LOGOS ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 29 (2-3) ◽  
pp. 80-90
Author(s):  
Samantha Rayner
Keyword(s):  
Communities Of Practice ◽  
Research Council ◽  
British Library ◽  
Morte Darthur ◽  
Arts And Humanities ◽  
The Arts ◽  
The Future ◽  
Le Morte Darthur ◽  
Future Project

This paper explores the contexts in which the academic books of the future in the arts and humanities (A&H) are being shaped, with the aim of demonstrating how crucial it is that the communities of practice that produce those books continue to work together to build better bridges of understanding and collaboration. There is particular reference to the Arts and Humanities Research Council/ British Library Academic Book of the Future Project (2014–2017) and to a case study of Sir Thomas Malory’s Le Morte Darthur.

The behaviour of the researcher of the future (the ‘Google generation’)

2010 ◽  
Vol 35 (1) ◽  
pp. 18-21 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Nicholas
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Information Seeking ◽  
Information Needs ◽  
Arts And Humanities ◽  
The Arts ◽  
The Future ◽  
University College London ◽  
Funded Project ◽  
Information Professionals ◽  
Digital Footprints

This paper describes and evaluates the information-seeking behaviour of young people in the virtual environment. Data are drawn from a JISC/BL funded project on the future scholar and a seven-year study of the virtual scholar conducted by CIBER at University College London. Hundreds of thousands of young people, mainly students, from all over the globe, are covered in the log analyses. On the basis of these data, the characteristics of their ‘digital footprints’ are drawn, demonstrating the huge paradigm shift that has occurred in the information seeking of young scholars. The results are surprising, disturbing and challenging and the author concludes with a discussion of how information professionals and the arts and humanities community in general might best meet young people’s information needs.

scholarly journals ‘Becoming more confident in being themselves’: The value of cultural and creative engagement for young people in foster care – Dawn Mannay, Phil Smith, Catt Turney, Stephen Jennings and Peter Davies

2021 ◽  
pp. 147332502110099
Author(s):  
Dawn Mannay ◽  
Phil Smith ◽  
Catherine Turney ◽  
Stephen Jennings ◽  
Peter Henry Davies
Keyword(s):  
Foster Care ◽  
Young People ◽  
Interpersonal Relationships ◽  
Social Connectedness ◽  
Field Observations ◽  
Children And Young People ◽  
Cultural Engagement ◽  
The Arts ◽  
Insight Into

There is evidence that engagement with the arts can engender transformative effects on young people’s views of themselves and their futures, this can be particularly useful for children and young people in care. This paper draws on a case study of an arts-based programme delivered in Wales, UK. Field observations of the arts-based sessions were conducted, and the participant sample included young people in foster care (n = 8), foster carers (n = 7) and project facilitators (n = 3). The study employed interviews, observations, reflexive diaries, and metaphor work to explore the subjective accounts of these different stakeholders. This provided an insight into their experience of being involved with the arts-based programme, the impacts of this involvement, and what steps they felt could be taken to improve the model. The paper argues that arts and cultural engagement can be transformative in improving the confidence and social connectedness of young people in foster care, but that attention needs to be given to how programmes are delivered. The paper documents the often overlooked mundane, yet important, aspects of planning arts-based programmes, exploring the involvement of foster carers, interpersonal relationships, and the provision of refreshments. It calls for investment in developing carefully designed extracurricular opportunities for young people in care, where they can experience ‘becoming more confident in being themselves’.

scholarly journals The role of educational technologists in the provision of language courses in higher education: a case study

2019 ◽  
pp. 7-12
Author(s):  
Christopher Allen ◽  
David Richardson
Keyword(s):  
Language Learning ◽  
Computer Assisted ◽  
Teaching Staff ◽  
Support Provision ◽  
Arts And Humanities ◽  
The Arts ◽  
Humanities Faculty ◽  
Language Courses ◽  
Information And Communication

In recent years, schools, municipalities, and universities have made increasing use of educational technologists (edtechs) to support teaching staff in the delivery of technology-based courses in face-to-face, blended, or purely online formats. This paper is a case study focusing on the types of training and support provision provided by three edtechs within the arts and humanities faculty of a large provincial university in southern Sweden. The edtechs also identify a number of obstacles in the way of developing Information and Communication Technology (ICT) and computer assisted language learning expertise among teaching staff.

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