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Creating Justice

Human Rights and Art in Conversation

Edited by Eliza Garnsey and Caitlin Hamilton - Foreword by Christine Sylvester

What can art offer to facilitate a fuller understanding of human rights and human rights violations? How do arts-based interventions help to highlight injustices, empower individuals and groups, and advocate for and effect change? How do art practices help to reveal new dimensions of violations and aid in post-conflict recovery?

In this edited volume, twenty-seven artists and scholars, working across a range of practices and approaches, answer these questions – and many more – through a series of conversations. They offer deeply personal reflections on creative labour, sharing original and rich insights into a range of ongoing social and political struggles, violent conflicts, and human rights abuses.

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Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Pages: 244 • Trim: 6¼ x 9¼
978-1-5381-9635-9 • Hardback • December 2024 • $125.00 • (£96.00)
978-1-5381-9636-6 • Paperback • December 2024 • $45.00 • (£35.00)
978-1-5381-9637-3 • eBook • December 2024 • $42.00 • (£35.00)
Series: Creative Interventions in Global Politics
Subjects: Political Science / Human Rights, Art / Art & Politics, Social Science / Activism & Social Justice

Eliza Garnsey is a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow in International Relations at the Institute for Global Prosperity, University College London. Her trans-disciplinary research focuses on art and visual culture in international relations and world politics, particularly in relation to human rights, transitional justice, and conflict. Eliza’s monograph, The Justice of Visual Art: Creative State-Building in Times of Political Transition, demonstrates that there are aesthetic and creative ways to pursue transitional justice. Her recent book, Justicecraft: Imagining Justice in Times of Conflict, is co-authored with Lauren Balasco, Arnaud Kurze and Christopher K. Lamont.

Caitlin Hamilton is a writer, researcher, and editor. Her research interests include the intersection of popular culture and world politics, creative methods, and feminist approaches to peace and security. Her recent publications include The Everyday Artefacts of World Politics (2022) and the third volume of Gender Matters in Global Politics (2023, co-edited with Laura J. Shepherd). She is also the founder of Hamilton Editorial which offers editing and mentoring services for academic writers.

List of Figures

Foreword

Acknowledgments

Chapter 1. Introduction: A note from the editors

Chapter 2. Public Interventions: A conversation between Amy Sanchez Arteaga, Misael G. Diaz, and Tania Islas Weinstein

Chapter 3. Painting and Photography: A conversation between Jane Lydon and Danie Mellor

Chapter 4. Performance: A conversation between Iman Aoun and Toni Shapiro-Phim

Chapter 5. Architecture: A conversation between Tiziana Panizza Kassahun and Konstantinos Pittas

Chapter 6. Jewellery: A conversation between Su san Cohn and Caitlin Hamilton

Chapter 7. Textiles: A conversation between Christine Andrä and Laura Antonia Coral Velásquez

Chapter 8. Installations: A conversation between eL Seed and Arnaud Kurze

Chapter 9. Poetry and Performance: A conversation between Garima Dutt and Choman Hardi

Chapter 10. Documentary Film: A conversation between Andrea Durbach and Dean Gibson

Chapter 11. Photography: A conversation between Shahidul Alam and Roland Bleiker

Chapter 12. Sculpture: A conversation between Tatiana Fernández-Maya and Carey Newman

Chapter 13. Music and Documentary Films: A conversation between Eda Elif Tibet and Enzo Ikah

Chapter 14. Visual Arts: A conversation between Rachel Kerr and Milena Michalski

About the Editors

A tour de force across several academic disciplines and artforms, this refreshingly innovative volume creatively reconsiders human rights abuses through exciting, mutually illuminating boundary crossings between the academic and the artistic worlds, too often out of sync with each other. Combining grounded theorizing with autobiographical testimony, it is a must read for anyone seeking to understand the messy and ever-changing reality of political violence and to imagine a way forward.


— Mihaela Mihai, University of Edinburgh


This is an innovative and exciting collection. Drawing together an impressive range of scholars and artists, working across different media and traditions, the assembled conversations illuminate the numerous ways that the arts can contribute to the pursuit of human rights around the world. Rich, rewarding, and challenging, Creating Justice will be of interest to scholars and human rights practitioners.


— Duncan Bell, University of Cambridge


Art is one of our best inventions. In this volume artists and scholars explore how artworks are able to resist and transform the structural violence inherent in Human Rights failures. A welcome contribution to understanding the epistemic differences as well as the ethical and political overlaps between art practice and IR scholarship.


— Lola Frost, King's College London


  • Unique conversational format which brings together scholars and artists in organic exchanges in which they share highly original and empirically rich reflections on key issues in contemporary world politics.
  • Addresses a range of ongoing challenges to human rights with contributions from a diverse group of artists and scholars from around the world.
  • Features prominent artists, scholars, and human rights practitioners, including Shahidul Alam, el Seed, Andrea Durbach, Roland Bleiker, Choman Hardi, Garima Dutt, Danie Mellor, and Iman Aoun.
  • Policy and practitioner relevant — responds to the increasing attention to the intersection of human rights and art even in conventional policymaker spaces.



Creating Justice

Human Rights and Art in Conversation

Cover Image
Hardback
Paperback
eBook
Summary
Summary
  • What can art offer to facilitate a fuller understanding of human rights and human rights violations? How do arts-based interventions help to highlight injustices, empower individuals and groups, and advocate for and effect change? How do art practices help to reveal new dimensions of violations and aid in post-conflict recovery?

    In this edited volume, twenty-seven artists and scholars, working across a range of practices and approaches, answer these questions – and many more – through a series of conversations. They offer deeply personal reflections on creative labour, sharing original and rich insights into a range of ongoing social and political struggles, violent conflicts, and human rights abuses.

Details
Details
  • Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
    Pages: 244 • Trim: 6¼ x 9¼
    978-1-5381-9635-9 • Hardback • December 2024 • $125.00 • (£96.00)
    978-1-5381-9636-6 • Paperback • December 2024 • $45.00 • (£35.00)
    978-1-5381-9637-3 • eBook • December 2024 • $42.00 • (£35.00)
    Series: Creative Interventions in Global Politics
    Subjects: Political Science / Human Rights, Art / Art & Politics, Social Science / Activism & Social Justice
Author
Author
  • Eliza Garnsey is a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow in International Relations at the Institute for Global Prosperity, University College London. Her trans-disciplinary research focuses on art and visual culture in international relations and world politics, particularly in relation to human rights, transitional justice, and conflict. Eliza’s monograph, The Justice of Visual Art: Creative State-Building in Times of Political Transition, demonstrates that there are aesthetic and creative ways to pursue transitional justice. Her recent book, Justicecraft: Imagining Justice in Times of Conflict, is co-authored with Lauren Balasco, Arnaud Kurze and Christopher K. Lamont.

    Caitlin Hamilton is a writer, researcher, and editor. Her research interests include the intersection of popular culture and world politics, creative methods, and feminist approaches to peace and security. Her recent publications include The Everyday Artefacts of World Politics (2022) and the third volume of Gender Matters in Global Politics (2023, co-edited with Laura J. Shepherd). She is also the founder of Hamilton Editorial which offers editing and mentoring services for academic writers.

Table of Contents
Table of Contents
  • List of Figures

    Foreword

    Acknowledgments

    Chapter 1. Introduction: A note from the editors

    Chapter 2. Public Interventions: A conversation between Amy Sanchez Arteaga, Misael G. Diaz, and Tania Islas Weinstein

    Chapter 3. Painting and Photography: A conversation between Jane Lydon and Danie Mellor

    Chapter 4. Performance: A conversation between Iman Aoun and Toni Shapiro-Phim

    Chapter 5. Architecture: A conversation between Tiziana Panizza Kassahun and Konstantinos Pittas

    Chapter 6. Jewellery: A conversation between Su san Cohn and Caitlin Hamilton

    Chapter 7. Textiles: A conversation between Christine Andrä and Laura Antonia Coral Velásquez

    Chapter 8. Installations: A conversation between eL Seed and Arnaud Kurze

    Chapter 9. Poetry and Performance: A conversation between Garima Dutt and Choman Hardi

    Chapter 10. Documentary Film: A conversation between Andrea Durbach and Dean Gibson

    Chapter 11. Photography: A conversation between Shahidul Alam and Roland Bleiker

    Chapter 12. Sculpture: A conversation between Tatiana Fernández-Maya and Carey Newman

    Chapter 13. Music and Documentary Films: A conversation between Eda Elif Tibet and Enzo Ikah

    Chapter 14. Visual Arts: A conversation between Rachel Kerr and Milena Michalski

    About the Editors

Reviews
Reviews
  • A tour de force across several academic disciplines and artforms, this refreshingly innovative volume creatively reconsiders human rights abuses through exciting, mutually illuminating boundary crossings between the academic and the artistic worlds, too often out of sync with each other. Combining grounded theorizing with autobiographical testimony, it is a must read for anyone seeking to understand the messy and ever-changing reality of political violence and to imagine a way forward.


    — Mihaela Mihai, University of Edinburgh


    This is an innovative and exciting collection. Drawing together an impressive range of scholars and artists, working across different media and traditions, the assembled conversations illuminate the numerous ways that the arts can contribute to the pursuit of human rights around the world. Rich, rewarding, and challenging, Creating Justice will be of interest to scholars and human rights practitioners.


    — Duncan Bell, University of Cambridge


    Art is one of our best inventions. In this volume artists and scholars explore how artworks are able to resist and transform the structural violence inherent in Human Rights failures. A welcome contribution to understanding the epistemic differences as well as the ethical and political overlaps between art practice and IR scholarship.


    — Lola Frost, King's College London


Features
Features
    • Unique conversational format which brings together scholars and artists in organic exchanges in which they share highly original and empirically rich reflections on key issues in contemporary world politics.
    • Addresses a range of ongoing challenges to human rights with contributions from a diverse group of artists and scholars from around the world.
    • Features prominent artists, scholars, and human rights practitioners, including Shahidul Alam, el Seed, Andrea Durbach, Roland Bleiker, Choman Hardi, Garima Dutt, Danie Mellor, and Iman Aoun.
    • Policy and practitioner relevant — responds to the increasing attention to the intersection of human rights and art even in conventional policymaker spaces.



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