Arts-Based Methods

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    Fabric crafts and poetry: The art of development education in Canada
    (Centre for Global Education, 2006) Hall, Budd L; Clover, Darlena E
    This article by Darlene Clover and Budd Hall traces how development education in Canada has drawn on arts and crafts as tools for critical learning. It begins with the field's roots in the 1960s and 70s, when CUSO volunteers came home questioning accepted narratives about poverty and global trade, then traces its decline once government funding dried up in 1994. The authors turn to two case studies: a group of women on Vancouver Island who used collective quilting to protest a gas plant and the Iraq war, and a University of Victoria poetry course that turned students into poets and peace activists over five weeks. Drawing on both cases, they make the case that arts and crafts belong in development education: they open oppositional imagination, work through metaphor where dialogue alone falls short, use humour as resistance, and ask real risk of participants, as the censored quilts themselves proved.
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    Light against the darkness: Poetry and social movements
    (2006) Hall, Budd L
    This paper grows out of a public talk and poetry reading that Dr. Budd Hall delivered in New Delhi in February 2006 and examines the deep historical relationship between poetry and social movements across cultures and centuries. The paper traces how, through history, people fighting for change have utilized poetry as a tool of resistance, solidarity, and political expression. Hall moves across languages, continents, and centuries to show this, bringing in voices from Canada, Chile, Iraq, Bangladesh, Somalia, and the Indian subcontinent, from Neruda and Atwood to K'Naan and Mallika Sengupta. The paper does not argue that poetry wins wars or rewrites policy. Instead, it argues something quieter and perhaps more lasting that in the darkest political moments, poets keep showing up, and that this itself means something.