Sounding Conflict

Sound, music and storytelling are important tools of resistance, resilience and reconciliation in creative practice from protracted conflict to post-conflict contexts. When they are used in a socially engaged participatory capacity, they can create counter-narratives to conflict. Based on original research in three continents, this book advances an interdisciplinary, comparative approach to exploring the role of sonic and creative practices in addressing the effects of conflict. Each case study illustrates how participatory arts genres are variously employed by musicians, arts facilitators, theatre practitioners, community activists and other stakeholders as a means of 'strategic creativity' to transform trauma and promote empowerment. This research further highlights the complex dynamics of delivering and managing creativity among those who have experienced violence, as they seek opportunities to generate alternative arenas for engagement, healing and transformation.

Fiona Magowan is Fellow and Research Lead at the Senator George J. Mitchell Institute for Global Peace, Security and Justice and Professor of Anthropology at Queen's University Belfast, UK. She is the author or editor of seven books, including Christianity, Conflict and Renewal in the Australia Pacific (2016).

Acknowledgments
List of Figures
Introduction: Sound Ambiguities
Fiona Magowan (Queen's University Belfast, UK), Julie M. Norman (University College London, UK), Ariana Phillips-Hutton (Cambridge University, UK), Stefanie Lehner (Queens's University Belfast, UK) and Pedro Rebelo (Queen's University Belfast, UK)
1. Sound Methodologies in Conflict Transformation and Peacebuilding
Fiona Magowan (Queen's University Belfast, UK), Julie M. Norman (University College London, UK), Ariana Phillips-Hutton (Cambridge University, UK), Stefanie Lehner (Queens's University Belfast, UK) and Pedro Rebelo (Queen's University Belfast, UK)
2. Resistance: Performing the Frontline
Julie Norman (University College London, UK)
3. Resilience in Creative Practice in a Post-Conflict Context: Musicians Without Borders
Fiona Magowan (Queen's University Belfast, UK)
4. Remediating Relationships: Collaborative Storytelling and Conflict
Ariana Phillips-Hutton (Cambridge University, UK)
5. From Noises of Conflict to Dissonant Sounds of Reconciliation in Northern Irish Theatre
Stefanie Lehner (Queen's University Belfast, UK)
6. Working through Creative Practice: Socially Engaged Arts Interventions
Pedro Rebelo (Queen's University Belfast, UK)
Conclusion
Fiona Magowan (Queen's University Belfast, UK), Julie M. Norman (University College London, UK), Ariana Phillips-Hutton (Cambridge University, UK), Stefanie Lehner (Queens's University Belfast, UK) and Pedro Rebelo (Queen's University Belfast, UK)References
Author Index
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