About the Journal
Arts, Culture and Development is a peer-reviewed journal published annually on the Role of Arts and Culture in Global Development Practice. The journal explores the role of arts and culture in global international development through human expression, forming identity, and empowering communities. It focuses on practice-based, collective, community-focused, sustainability-minded, and capacity-building examples, inclusive of the myriad ways practitioners are imagining or defining the role of arts and culture, considering the centrality of it in human development.
We invite submissions of articles and visual essays from artist workers / teachers / scholars / activists, across practice-based perspectives acknowledging positionalities, both in identity and geography understanding and respecting the complexity it brings. Authors must describe practice and pedagogy with a focus on relationality, voice, and impact emphasizing how they build sustainable relationships with the communities where they practice through reciprocity, pedagogy, culture, and curriculum. Authors do not have to be exclusively academically trained, nor necessarily need to be explicit about their work as ‘development’ practice.
Author’s unique positions and experiences are vital to deepening understanding about the complexities inherent in the work and to fostering the rich networking potential in this work. Authors are invited and encouraged therefore to extend their participation beyond their own submission by joining the Humanities Commons Arts and Culture for Global Development Group and also consider being a reviewer for the journal.