Limit search to available items
Book Cover
E-book
Author Arts, Society and Sustainable Development Conference (2011 : Pretoria, South Africa)

Title Africa and beyond : arts and sustainable development / edited by Patrick Ebewo, Ingrid Stevens and Mzo Sirayi
Published Newcastle upon Tyne, UK : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2013

Copies

Description 1 online resource (xiii, 458 pages)
Contents Table of contents; preface; part i: general; chapter one -- repositioning the arts for sustainable development; chapter two -- transforming the social body through arts praxis; chapter three -- empowerment, entrepreneurship and cultural sustainability in the development of hopi tourism policy; chapter four -- sustaining the theatrical public sphere; chapter five -- the arts and interracial dialogue in post-apartheid south africa; part ii: performing arts; chapter six -- tackling sexual harassment through role play; chapter seven -- pirates of the curriculum
Chapter eight -- drawing from Indigenous knowledge systemschapter nine -- examining the efficacy of health communication theories in the fight against hiv/aids in southern africa; part iii: visual arts; chapter ten -- well-trained art educators; chapter eleven -- the re-turn to art practice; chapter twelve -- towards appropriate sensory products for learners with learning problems; chapter thirteen -- photographic space as third space -- chapter fourteen -- arts education in south africa; chapter fifteen -- between two shattered mirrors
Chapter sixteen -- what makes sam nzima's image of hector pieterson iconic?part iv: fashion design and entrepreneurship; chapter seventeen -- the impact of Indigenous cultures on contemporary dress patterns in zimbabwe; chapter eighteen -- outcomes of entrepreneurship training among fashion design women entrepreneurs operating within the informal sector in kenya; chapter nineteen -- profile of personal characteristics and business aspects of entrepreneurs in the fashion industry in south africa
CHAPTER TWENTY -- THE PERCEIVED ROLE OF THE ADVERTISED THIN FASHION MODEL ON FULL-FIGURED SOUTH AFRICAN WOMEN'S SELF-ESTEEM AND DRESSING STYLESCHAPTER TWENTY-ONE -- FACTORS INFLUENCING THE SUSTAINABILITY OF TEXTILES SMMEs IN NAMIBIA; CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO -- THE IMPACT OF TEXTILES AND CLOTHING PROCESSES ON THE ENVIRONMENT; CHAPTER TWENTY-THREE -- SOCIO-CULTURAL ASPECTS OF CLOTHING; PART V: LITERATURE AND FILM; CHAPTER TWENTY-FOUR -- KINSHIP TABOOS AND ROYALTY IN NIGERIA'S VIDEO-FILMS; CHAPTER TWENTY-FIVE -- ARTISTIC COMMITMENT AND THE NEW COUNTER-DISCOURSE
Chapter twenty-six -- film in the service of humanitychapter twenty-seven -- artistic innovation through cultural symbols; contributors
Summary ""Africa and Beyond: Arts and Sustainable Development is a massive undertaking by thoughtful theorists and practitioners in the creative/cultural industry. The combined effect of the volume is to disabuse the fixed, prevailing conception of the role of culture in society; a view that consigns the arts to the periphery of social life, devoid of any meaningful contribution to the alleviation of poverty and general development. Contrary to this view, the volume presents a more comprehensive, mean ..
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
Notes Print version record
Subject Arts, African -- Congresses
Sustainable development -- Africa -- Congresses
Cultural industries -- Social aspects -- Africa -- Congresses
Arts and society -- Africa -- Congresses
The arts.
The arts: general issues.
Art: financial aspects.
ART -- General.
Cultural industries -- Social aspects
Arts, African
Arts and society
Sustainable development
Africa
Genre/Form Conference papers and proceedings
Form Electronic book
Author Ebewo, Patrick
ISBN 9781443864633
1443864633