Arts and ethnography in a contemporary world: From learning to social participation

ISBN 10: 1872767796 / ISBN 13: 9781872767796

Edité par Tufnell Press, 2019

In English. N° de réf. du vendeur ria9781872767796_new

Synopsis :

Teaching and learning practices around arts in various formal and informal contexts are increasingly at the centre of ethnographic research. In parallel, artists and arts researchers are engaging with ethnography as a part of their research toolkit. Ethnography helps reveal the potentialities of the arts and interconnects several disciplinary practices but also involves complex tensions and uncertainties that emerge from extending conventional research practices.

In this book definitional issues around learning, education, social participation and expressive practices are reflexively re-examined deepening our understanding of artistic practices and art contexts in a contemporary world. Studies on and in the arts often blur conventional disciplinary borders, providing a terrain for new insights to arise from interdisciplinary dialogue. By combining the study of social practices and discourses related to art-making, and applying ethnography as the main methodological approach, researchers stimulate intellectual debate. This book reveals a diversity of artistic contexts and practices explored by social scientists and artists in settings across locations in Europe and Latin America. The edited volume provides a balance of methodological discussions around ethnographic methods stemming from the examination of artistic practices and settings, detailed accounts of how art is experienced in local settings or critical accounts of how art emerges as a methodological and conceptual tool for social intervention, thus promoting social participation and educational change. The book will be of value to students and researchers in the social sciences and the arts, as well as appealing to a broader audience interested in these issues.

À propos des auteurs: Assistant professor and a researcher at the Institute of Sociology and the Sociology Department, Universidade do Porto (Portugal). Ferro was a visiting scholar at universities in Europe, the United States of America and Brazil. She is the author, co-author and editor of several publications, including the books Arts and Cultural Education in a World of Diversity (2019, Springer) and Moving Cities: Contested Views on Urban Life (2018, Springer). Lately she has been working on urban street cultures, arts education, migrations and action research especially applying ethnographic methods. Currently Ferro is a member of the Executive Committee of the European Sociological Association (ESA), vocal of the Directive Committee of the Portuguese Sociological Association and member of the board of the European Network of Observatories in the Field of Arts and Cultural Education (ENO)

Associate professor at the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (Spain). He has training in Psychology, Education, Social Anthropology and extensive experience in sociolinguistic/linguistic ethnographic research. His research interests include children's linguistic and semiotic practices and the interconnections between social diversity, education, development and social inequality.

Détails bibliographiques

Titre : Arts and ethnography in a contemporary world...
Éditeur : Tufnell Press
Date d'édition : 2019
Reliure : Couverture souple
Etat : New