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Body Mapping
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Everyday Peace
Exhibitions
forthcoming
Participatory Film-Making
Peace Photography
Peace-making
Peacebuilding
Performative Arts
social change
Visual Arts
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- ISBN 9781399556248
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 30 Nov 2026
- Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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Conceptualising everyday peace as relations, the collection frames the arts as an integral part of how people and communities respond to war, conflict and violence from the everyday. In doing so, the collection introduces three connected dynamics of arts connection to everyday peace: everyday aesthetics, everyday practice and everyday curating.
Building on this, chapters introduce original, empirically grounded case studies from a range of global contexts, each engaging with a different artform including photography, visual art, theatre and performance art, filmmaking, body mapping and exhibition making.
The collection offers a timely contribution to arts-based approaches to peace and conflict studies. Engaging with critical, decolonial and feminist peacebuilding scholarship, it shows how the arts generate alternative ways of making, crafting and imagining peace, with relevance for scholars, practitioners and communities alike.
Dr Lydia C. Cole is Lecturer in International Relations at University of Sussex. Situated at the intersections of Critical Peace and Conflict Studies and Aesthetic Politics, her research is interested in the role of everyday artistic practices in peacemaking. To date, her research has primarily focused on peace and conflict in Bosnia and Herzegovina and United Kingdom, engaging with visual, tactile and sonic arts. Her research has been published in journals such as International Political Sociology and Journal of Intervention and Statebuilding. Dr Azadeh Sobout is a Research Fellow at Queen’s University Belfast where she is developing an action research project on the role of storytelling and creative practices in documenting urban change. Shedding light on the emerging urban collective actions, she explores how the alliances between artists, architects and urban planners are contributing to the areas of solidarity economy and social justice.
