Transformative youth development through heritage projects: connecting political, creative, and cultural capabilities

IF 2 1区社会学 0 HUMANITIES, MULTIDISCIPLINARY

International Journal of Heritage Studies Pub Date : 2023-05-08 DOI:10.1080/13527258.2023.2209058

Faith Mkwananzi, F. M. Cin, T. Marovah

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Abstract

ABSTRACT This article draws on our continuous artistic engagement with Tonga youth in Zimbabwe over the last four years and offers a critical analysis of their transformation. We use the intersecting concepts of political and cultural capabilities to argue how arts-based participation in civic spaces has enabled them to shift the power balances, fostering them as epistemic agents and change-makers. Their journey across three arts and heritage workshops showcases that the longitudinal collaborations and social networks developed and built on one another, creating a thick interrelational embodied process of initiating political advocacy and re-creating different and multiple reinterpretations of their cultural heritage. The paper demonstrates the possibilities of envisaging and realising alternative livelihoods amidst the struggles exacerbated by horizontal and vertical inequalities, precarity, political apathy and poverty and highlights the importance of identifying relevant, context-sensitive, and engaging approaches for transformative development and legacy.

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通过遗产项目变革青年发展:将政治、创意和文化能力联系起来

这篇文章借鉴了我们在过去四年中与津巴布韦汤加青年持续的艺术接触，并对他们的转变进行了批判性的分析。我们使用政治和文化能力的交叉概念来论证以艺术为基础的公民空间参与如何使他们能够改变权力平衡，将他们培养为认知推动者和变革者。他们在三个艺术和遗产研讨会上的旅程展示了纵向合作和社会网络的发展和建立，创造了一个厚重的相互关联的体现过程，发起政治倡导，重新创造对文化遗产的不同和多重重新解释。本文展示了在横向和纵向不平等、不稳定、政治冷漠和贫困加剧的斗争中设想和实现替代生计的可能性，并强调了为变革性发展和遗产确定相关、环境敏感和引人入胜的方法的重要性。

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International Journal of Heritage Studies Multiple-

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4.10

自引率

11.10%

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期刊介绍： The International Journal of Heritage Studies ( IJHS ) is the interdisciplinary academic, refereed journal for scholars and practitioners with a common interest in heritage. The Journal encourages debate over the nature and meaning of heritage as well as its links to memory, identities and place. Articles may include issues emerging from Heritage Studies, Museum Studies, History, Tourism Studies, Sociology, Anthropology, Memory Studies, Cultural Geography, Law, Cultural Studies, and Interpretation and Design.