IDS is collaborating with partners from across East and West Africa in a novel activity to promote the role of arts and creative activities in contributing to positive environmental change. It builds on the concepts and partnerships developed in two preceding AHRC projects, ‘Citizen Voice’...
Collaborative art-making may promote relationships between groups with little experience of engaging together directly in east and west Africa, in contexts where policy dialogue is already emotive and value-based. Arts based methods in democratic deliberation and 'arts-for-change' In...
7 June 2023
En Afrique de l'Est et de l'Ouest, la création artistique collaborative peut renforcer les relations entre des groupes peu habitués à s'engager ensemble directement, dans des contextes où le dialogue politique est déjà empreint d'émotion et fondé sur des valeurs. Méthodes...
7 June 2023
The arts are often used in environmental communication, and can allow people to express opinions they find important. How does this work in relation to climate change in the West African Sahel? Keywords: Africa; arts; citizen; communication; dialogue; environment; Sahel Across the world,...
22 November 2022
Les arts sont souvent utilisés dans la communication environnementale et peuvent permettre aux gens d'exprimer des opinions qu'ils tiennent pour importantes. Comment cela fonctionne-t-il par rapport au changement climatique dans le Sahel ouest-africain? Mot clés: Afrique; arts; communication...
22 November 2022
Briefing
Across West Africa and East Africa, policy actors and citizens have tended to discuss socio-environmental issues in ways that recognise emotional, subjective viewpoints, but can be antagonistic.
8 August 2023
Dual-language Report
Artists have often used artworks to express emotions and thus prompt public dialogue about contemporary challenges. At the same time, it has been suggested that collaborative art-making can be used in environmental deliberation processes, where stakeholder groups discuss contentious challenges...
8 August 2023
IDS Working Paper 593
Les premières publications sur la délibération environnementale partaient du principe que les pairs débattaient rationnellement des preuves pour parvenir à des conclusions logiques. Cependant, des travaux plus récents présentent les activités artistiques comme un moyen de reconnaître...
8 August 2023
IDS Working Paper 584
Citizen and policy groups address environmental challenges in the Sahel, but rarely together. In Sahelian West Africa, including in Mauritania, Senegal, and Mali, artists and citizens have used protest art to make their voices heard, in contexts where this can carry risks of conflict with...
21 December 2022