Kris Rutten
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 170805 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Kris Rutten |
| PRENOMES | Kris |
| SOBRENOME | Rutten |
| ASSINATURA | RUTTEN K |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Ghent University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8630-4464 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 46 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 92 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 46 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2010 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 5 |
Why does it matter? A literature review on the functions of school arts education in China 2001–2022
The functions of arts education portrayed in China’s central Educational policy
This paper aims to critically analyse four central policies concerning school arts education issued in China between 2014 and 2023. The authors employed Fairclough’s dialectical-relational version of Critical Discourse Analysis to examine the policy texts, with a particular interest in understanding the envisioned functions, discursive strategies, underlying governmental demands and cultural logics. First, the five-stage evolution of the related …
Queen Nikkolah’s reign
On December 6, 2023, Ghent City Hall hosted a Saint Nicholas celebration featuring “Queen Nikkolah,” a Black female reinterpretation of the figure by artivist Laura Nsengiyumva. Positioned as an alternative to the controversial Black Pete, a blackface tradition in Flanders and the Netherlands, Queen Nikkolah became the subject of heated debate, showing that such alternatives do not escape racial tensions. Through a rhetorical listening analysis o…
Limits to the participation paradigm? Unpacking the rhetoric of participation in Flemish cultural policy (1990–2024)
In recent decades, the relation between arts and their social impacts has gained prominence in cultural policy and research. In social cultural work, this debate intensified with the rise of participatory arts practices in the mid-1990s, particularly in multicultural, underprivileged urban neighbourhoods. These practices are often framed as tools to combat social and cultural exclusion. However, critical literature increasingly questions this par…
Engaging Pedagogy Through the Arts
Urban living and the search for new societal metaphors
In recent years, the relation between participatory arts practices and urban living has been a topic of debate. In an increasingly plural urban society, the co-presence of different social and cultural groups has created an urgent need for new ways to relate the right to individual freedom and hence diversity, to the necessity of social coherence. In this search, participatory art has gained in relevance. By addressing missing artistic forms and …
Youth's experiences with books
Altres ajuts: acords transformatius de la UAB
Dealing with a contested past
In recent decades, a lot of Western countries have been engaged in a heated debate on how to come to terms with their colonial past. Leaving behind the idea that colonial history consists mainly of common achievements, the former philanthropic narrative of ‘modernisation’ and ‘progress’ has been critically analysed and dissected as the awareness of its painful episodes grew. In this vein, the postcolonial history in Belgium is an interesting case…
Retracing the racial semiotics of the other-lingual ( anderstalige ) in Dutch and Afrikaans
This article explores the racial semiotics of the Dutch concept of the other-lingual ( de anderstalige). Multicultural discourse ostensibly encodes the otherness as merely linguistic; however, Flemish nationalist policy discourse deploys the other-lingual to discern autochthony from allochthony. Retracing the origins of this concept, we found that the concept did not originate in Dutch-speaking Europe, but we found earlier traces overseas in apar…
Enjoy poverty’
The concepts of critical reflection and reflexivity currently occupy a prominent space in social work education. Nevertheless, there is a need for more evidence on how these concepts are conceptualised and enacted in concrete social work teaching contexts. In this paper, we develop a rhetorical approach to critical and reflexive social work education building on the concepts of terministic screens, trained incapacities and rhetorical listening. W…
Urban cowboyism’ and beyond
Unpacking Cultural Logics
In Flanders and the Netherlands, a controversy arises each year over “Black Pete”, a blackface character that is one of the traditional figures of the children’s festival of Saint Nicholas. Through a rhetorical listening analysis of mainstream print media sources in Flanders, this article aims to understand the conflicting positions and unproductive stances haunting the public Black Pete debate. Our study explores how analysing these positions by…
When Students Rally for Anti-Racism. Engaging with Racial Literacy in Higher Education
Despite a decade of diversity policy plans, a wave of student rallies has ignited debates across western European university campuses. We observe these debates from a situated call for anti-racism in Belgian higher education institutions, and critically reflect on the gap between diversity policy discourse and calls for anti-racism. The students’ initiatives make a plea for racial literacy in the curriculum, to foster a critical awareness on how …
Critical cultural disability studies and mental health
This paper examines how an intersection of critical cultural disability studies and rhetorical studies can inform a critical education on ‘mental health (problems)’ for psychology students. Building on cultural theories of disability/impairment, a conception of ‘mental health (problems)’ as culturally constituted is introduced. We propose the rhetorical perspective as a particularly relevant analytical and pedagogical approach to enable students …
On Making Ethical Choices in Ethnographic Research into (Young) People’s Mediated Intimacy
People’s intimate life-worlds are increasingly taking place in networked media spaces such as social media, smartphone applications and virtual reality environments. For (digital) ethnographers, it becomes crucial to understand people’s intense intimate attachments to mediated spaces. Many researchers are already exploring networked media spaces’ affects; what opportunities they offer for people’s intimacies as well as the, albeit hidden, damage …
Proud to be poor? Untangling identity politics with the families portrayed in the photobook Courage (1998)
In the early 1990s, several European welfare states embraced the idea that the voice and life knowledge of people in poverty should be recognised in policymaking. In that regard, many authors proclaimed a paradigm shift from advocacy to self-advocacy, emphasising the agency of people in poverty to speak for themselves. Emblematic in these developments in Belgium was the photobook Courage, published in 1998 by an NGO called Movement for People wit…
A Critical Perspective on Mental Health News in Six European Countries
In this study, we aim to contribute to the field of critical health communication research by examining how notions of mental health and illness are discursively constructed in newspapers and magazines in six European countries and how these constructions relate to specific understandings of mental health literacy. Using the method of cluster-agon analysis, we identified four terminological clusters in our data, in which mental health/illness is …
Policy attachment in the arts
Debates on arts’ social role have been prominent in cultural policy and research for the past decades. Claims for what the arts “do” to people and the ways in which they can bring about both individual and societal transformation are plentiful, not seldom in association with a wider debate about the rationales for public support of the arts. Consequently, the reflection on participation in the arts, and its implications for cultural policies, has…
Cultural Literacies in Transition
The topic of this special issue is Cultural Literacies in Transition. Contemporary societal transitions raise a number of important questions about what can or should currently be considered as relevant or valuable knowledge about culture and the arts, about what is currently considered to be the societal and educational value of knowledge about and engagement with culture and the arts, both in policy as well as in the public debate, and about th…
Developing a Poverty-Aware Pedagogy
Social work scholars have argued that poverty reminds us of the necessary commitment to educate professional social workers. Being inspired by a conceptual framework that captures how poverty-awareness can be the subject of teaching in social work programmes, this article offers a qualitative analysis of the reflections being made by a cohort of students about their learning process in a post-academic course. Five common themes are discussed: (i)…
From the social to the urban question
Within social work, participatory arts practices have increasingly been put forward as a (new) pedagogical project that creates opportunities to deal with the challenges and complexities of living together in a changing and increasingly plural urban society. The aim of this article is to explore how and why participatory art was assigned this pedagogical role. First, we situate the current debate on participatory art in relation to urban living i…
Contemporary Art
There is increasing interest in the confrontation between contemporary art and anthropology. This confrontation has been referred to as the “ethnographic turn” in contemporary art. The past few decades have seen a growing number of contemporary art projects that address questions about the study and theorization of cultural difference and the practice of representation. At the same time, there has been a growing interest in contemporary art among…
Shaping a ‘pedagogy of interruption’
This article theorises the role of educational agents in democratic education in urban contexts by engaging in the discussion about the relationship between citizenship, democracy and education. Therefore, we confront Gert Biesta’s conceptualisation of a ‘pedagogy of interruption’ with the empirical insights that emerge from a qualitative research project on democratic education in a particular urban context in Ghent (Belgium). We elaborate on th…
Exploring educational taboos through school movies. A rhetorical analysis of student-teachers' reflections
Participation, Art and Digital Culture
Participatory art has become an umbrella term for a broad range of artistic practices that focus on the importance of participation, interaction, social networks and processes as a crucial part of art projects and that move away from an exclusive focus on clearly defined and delineated art products. At the same time, the notion of participation in the arts is inevitably influenced by the increasing ubiquity of digital culture in which “participat…
Revisiting the ethnographic turn in contemporary art
An increasing wave of art events has occurred since the 1990s that have displayed significant similarities with anthropology and ethnography in their theorisations of cultural difference and representational practices. In this theme issue the authors aim to revisit the ethnographic turn in contemporary art by focusing on practice-led research. Contributions were collected from theorists, artists and critics, to engage critically with the ethnogra…
Art, ethnography and practice-led research
Based on the ongoing and growing body of work that can be situated at the intersection of art and ethnography, Critical Arts has decided to host an annual themed issue that explores the ‘ethnographic turn’ in art. The aim of this thematic strand is to continue exploring the questions that are being raised by artists’ engagement with anthropological and ethnographic perspectives (and vice versa). In these annual thematic issues, the aim is to furt…
Everybody reads
The rhetorical turn in contemporary art and ethnography
This special themed issue, published over two consecutive issues of Critical Arts (October and December 2013), aims to revisit the ethnographic turn in contemporary art by inviting papers from theorists, artists and critics, to engage critically with the ethnographic perspective in their own work or in the work of other contemporary artists. This introductory article briefly recapitulates some of the issues explored in the first themed issue and …
Narrative and Rhetoric in Social Work Education
This article starts from the narrative turn in the humanities and the social sciences in general and social work in particular to explore the study of fictional narratives in social work education. Rhetoric is presented as an important perspective for social work by focusing on the work of the rhetorician and literary critic Kenneth Burke (1897-1993), specifically on his theory of dramatism. The dramatistic pentad is introduced as an analytical t…
Policy attachment in the arts
Debates on arts’ social role have been prominent in cultural policy and research for the past decades. Claims for what the arts “do” to people and the ways in which they can bring about both individual and societal transformation are plentiful, not seldom in association with a wider debate about the rationales for public support of the arts. Consequently, the reflection on participation in the arts, and its implications for cultural policies, has…
Cultural studies and critical literacies
This article introduces a special issue on the topic of ‘Cultural Studies and Critical Literacies’. The collection of articles is related to the central theme of the inaugural Summer Institute of the Association for Cultural Studies: to explore the implications of studying literacy by combining perspectives from cultural studies and (critical) literacy studies. Furthermore, with this issue we want to map current trends in cultural studies by shar…
Critical cultural disability studies and mental health
This paper examines how an intersection of critical cultural disability studies and rhetorical studies can inform a critical education on ‘mental health (problems)’ for psychology students. Building on cultural theories of disability/impairment, a conception of ‘mental health (problems)’ as culturally constituted is introduced. We propose the rhetorical perspective as a particularly relevant analytical and pedagogical approach to enable students …
Exploring educational taboos through school movies. A rhetorical analysis of student-teachers' reflections
What is the meaning of a safety-pin?’ Critical literacies and the ethnographic turn in contemporary art
In this contribution we address the concept of critical literacies by analyzing how symbolic representations within subcultures can be understood as an engagement with specific literacy practices. For some time now, cultural studies researchers with an interest in literacy have depended upon ethnographic methods to document how members of subcultural communities mobilize literacy practices to achieve critical ends. But the extent to which ethnogr…
Developing a Poverty-Aware Pedagogy
Social work scholars have argued that poverty reminds us of the necessary commitment to educate professional social workers. Being inspired by a conceptual framework that captures how poverty-awareness can be the subject of teaching in social work programmes, this article offers a qualitative analysis of the reflections being made by a cohort of students about their learning process in a post-academic course. Five common themes are discussed: (i)…
From the social to the urban question
Within social work, participatory arts practices have increasingly been put forward as a (new) pedagogical project that creates opportunities to deal with the challenges and complexities of living together in a changing and increasingly plural urban society. The aim of this article is to explore how and why participatory art was assigned this pedagogical role. First, we situate the current debate on participatory art in relation to urban living i…
Participation, Art and Digital Culture
Participatory art has become an umbrella term for a broad range of artistic practices that focus on the importance of participation, interaction, social networks and processes as a crucial part of art projects and that move away from an exclusive focus on clearly defined and delineated art products. At the same time, the notion of participation in the arts is inevitably influenced by the increasing ubiquity of digital culture in which “participat…
Do You Speak My Neighbourhood?” Language, Technology, and Proximity
The increasing emphasis on participation in both contemporary art and media practices implies that ethnography becomes an important framework to explore changing notions of place and interaction. This article analyses notions of participation, publicness, and proximity in the participatory artistic research projects Parlez-vous Saint-Gillois? and De Schaarbeekse Taal. It is explored how these projects deploy technology and language as means to cr…
No Strings Attached
Critical Arts has hosted a number of special issues that revisit the “ethnographic turn” in contemporary art (see previous volumes 27 [5], 27 [6], and 30 [3]). The aim of these issues is to explore how artists engage with anthropological and ethnographic perspectives in their work, starting from the many forms in which art can present itself today. The issues zoom in on globalised, hyper-diverse societies in which different cultures and communiti…
A singer is a group’
In this article, we seek to merge an insider with an outsider perspective on participatory arts projects, by engaging with the ethnographic turn in arts and promoting the idea of a ‘researcher template’ (Goodley 1999) as a way of enabling reflexivity in practice-led inquiries. Situated at the intersection between artistic, educational and academic work, this template allows us to address and reflect upon the complexities and vicissitudes emerging…
Attitudes Toward Education
A Rhetoric of Turns
In our research and teaching we explore the value and the place of rhetoric in education. From a theoretical perspective we situate our work in different disciplines, inspired by major turns': linguistic, cultural, anthropological/ethnographic, interpretive, semiotic, narrative, literary, rhetorical etc. In this article we engage in the discussion about what all these turns might entail for education by elaborating on what it implies to read the …
Literacy narratives as ethnography
The aim of this special issue is to revisit the ethnographic turn in contemporary art by exploring and critically assessing how art practices show significant similarities with anthropology and ethnography in their conceptualisations of cultural differences and in their representational practices. This contribution focuses on how narratives can be employed in the study of contemporary culture and society. It proceeds from the literary turn in eth…
Shall I Tell You What Is Wrong with Hector as a Teacher?”
The reluctance to introduce popular films in teacher education has often focused on the generic and stereotypical aspects of school movies. Stereotypes of education are said to misrepresent teaching and learning and are the basis for critical discussions in classes for preservice teachers. Rather than reject them, a narrative analysis will engage with these recurring patterns. School films can be described as equipment for living (Burke) and a co…
Urban living and the search for new societal metaphors
In recent years, the relation between participatory arts practices and urban living has been a topic of debate. In an increasingly plural urban society, the co-presence of different social and cultural groups has created an urgent need for new ways to relate the right to individual freedom and hence diversity, to the necessity of social coherence. In this search, participatory art has gained in relevance. By addressing missing artistic forms and …
Retracing the racial semiotics of the other-lingual ( anderstalige ) in Dutch and Afrikaans
This article explores the racial semiotics of the Dutch concept of the other-lingual ( de anderstalige). Multicultural discourse ostensibly encodes the otherness as merely linguistic; however, Flemish nationalist policy discourse deploys the other-lingual to discern autochthony from allochthony. Retracing the origins of this concept, we found that the concept did not originate in Dutch-speaking Europe, but we found earlier traces overseas in apar…
The New Forest
In 2015, Leanne Schubert and Mel Gray wrote a critical commentary in the British Journal of Social Work entitled ‘The death of emancipatory social work and birth of socially engaged art practice’. In this commentary, the authors argue that artists have moved in to fill the void that increasingly emerges as social workers vacate the public spaces of activism and social change. However, there is little consensus in the existing body of research abo…
What kind of silence is being broken?”
A Visual-Rhetorical History of the Out-of-Home Placement of Children in Poverty in 1990s BelgiumIn this article it is assumed that the documentary impulse that gave the impetus to Courage, a photobook on people in poverty published in Belgium in 1998, is related to how the General Report on Poverty, published in 1994, accused the sector of child welfare and protection services of a far too authoritative and coercive approach.This article analyses…
The rhetoric of disability
In this article the authors introduce a rhetorical perspective into disability studies by exploring the work of Kenneth Burke (1969). Specifically, the focus is on how Burke's theory of dramatism can be used in disability research as well as in teaching disability studies, as it holds potential for the production of a diversity of social interpretations of the relationship between ‘impairment’, ‘disability’ and a disabling society. The focus shif…
Narrative and Rhetoric in Social Work Education
This article starts from the narrative turn in the humanities and the social sciences in general and social work in particular to explore the study of fictional narratives in social work education. Rhetoric is presented as an important perspective for social work by focusing on the work of the rhetorician and literary critic Kenneth Burke (1897-1993), specifically on his theory of dramatism. The dramatistic pentad is introduced as an analytical t…
The rhetoric of disability
In this article the authors introduce a rhetorical perspective into disability studies by exploring the work of Kenneth Burke (1969). Specifically, the focus is on how Burke's theory of dramatism can be used in disability research as well as in teaching disability studies, as it holds potential for the production of a diversity of social interpretations of the relationship between ‘impairment’, ‘disability’ and a disabling society. The focus shif…
Narrative and Rhetorical Approaches to Problems of Education. Jerome Bruner and Kenneth Burke Revisited
What is the meaning of a safety-pin?’ Critical literacies and the ethnographic turn in contemporary art
In this contribution we address the concept of critical literacies by analyzing how symbolic representations within subcultures can be understood as an engagement with specific literacy practices. For some time now, cultural studies researchers with an interest in literacy have depended upon ethnographic methods to document how members of subcultural communities mobilize literacy practices to achieve critical ends. But the extent to which ethnogr…
Cultural studies and critical literacies
This article introduces a special issue on the topic of ‘Cultural Studies and Critical Literacies’. The collection of articles is related to the central theme of the inaugural Summer Institute of the Association for Cultural Studies: to explore the implications of studying literacy by combining perspectives from cultural studies and (critical) literacy studies. Furthermore, with this issue we want to map current trends in cultural studies by shar…
Literacy narratives as ethnography
The aim of this special issue is to revisit the ethnographic turn in contemporary art by exploring and critically assessing how art practices show significant similarities with anthropology and ethnography in their conceptualisations of cultural differences and in their representational practices. This contribution focuses on how narratives can be employed in the study of contemporary culture and society. It proceeds from the literary turn in eth…
The rhetorical turn in contemporary art and ethnography
This special themed issue, published over two consecutive issues of Critical Arts (October and December 2013), aims to revisit the ethnographic turn in contemporary art by inviting papers from theorists, artists and critics, to engage critically with the ethnographic perspective in their own work or in the work of other contemporary artists. This introductory article briefly recapitulates some of the issues explored in the first themed issue and …
Introduction
The Blackboard Jungle (1955). Directed by Richard Brooks. Shown: Glenn Ford (as Richard Dadier). Photo courtesy of MGM/Photofest. Why study popular film and television and its relation to education
Shall I Tell You What Is Wrong with Hector as a Teacher?”
The reluctance to introduce popular films in teacher education has often focused on the generic and stereotypical aspects of school movies. Stereotypes of education are said to misrepresent teaching and learning and are the basis for critical discussions in classes for preservice teachers. Rather than reject them, a narrative analysis will engage with these recurring patterns. School films can be described as equipment for living (Burke) and a co…
Revisiting the ethnographic turn in contemporary art
An increasing wave of art events has occurred since the 1990s that have displayed significant similarities with anthropology and ethnography in their theorisations of cultural difference and representational practices. In this theme issue the authors aim to revisit the ethnographic turn in contemporary art by focusing on practice-led research. Contributions were collected from theorists, artists and critics, to engage critically with the ethnogra…
A Rhetoric of Turns
In our research and teaching we explore the value and the place of rhetoric in education. From a theoretical perspective we situate our work in different disciplines, inspired by major turns': linguistic, cultural, anthropological/ethnographic, interpretive, semiotic, narrative, literary, rhetorical etc. In this article we engage in the discussion about what all these turns might entail for education by elaborating on what it implies to read the …
Constructing the ‘Child at Risk’ in Social Work Reports
In the context of the changing relationship between children, parents and the welfare state, professionals have to deal with notions of the ‘child at risk’. In child welfare and protection, the issue of normative judgement in (risk) assessment and documentation is an essential area for exploration for social workers. We examine the practice of report writing in which future professionals exercise power while assessing, documenting and judging the…
Attitudes Toward Education
Twitter, the most brilliant tough love editor you’ll ever have.” Reading and writing socially during the Twitter Fiction Festival
The communication practice of tweeting has fostered numerous literary experiments, like Teju Cole’s series “Small fates” and Jennifer Egan’s novel “Black box”. In late 2012, these experiments culminated in an event that focused on such literary experiments: the first Twitter Fiction Festival. In this paper, we explore how people who participated in the festival use tweeting to embrace and enact writing and reading literature as a social experienc…
A singer is a group’
In this article, we seek to merge an insider with an outsider perspective on participatory arts projects, by engaging with the ethnographic turn in arts and promoting the idea of a ‘researcher template’ (Goodley 1999) as a way of enabling reflexivity in practice-led inquiries. Situated at the intersection between artistic, educational and academic work, this template allows us to address and reflect upon the complexities and vicissitudes emerging…
Art, ethnography and practice-led research
Based on the ongoing and growing body of work that can be situated at the intersection of art and ethnography, Critical Arts has decided to host an annual themed issue that explores the ‘ethnographic turn’ in art. The aim of this thematic strand is to continue exploring the questions that are being raised by artists’ engagement with anthropological and ethnographic perspectives (and vice versa). In these annual thematic issues, the aim is to furt…
Everybody reads
Do You Speak My Neighbourhood?” Language, Technology, and Proximity
The increasing emphasis on participation in both contemporary art and media practices implies that ethnography becomes an important framework to explore changing notions of place and interaction. This article analyses notions of participation, publicness, and proximity in the participatory artistic research projects Parlez-vous Saint-Gillois? and De Schaarbeekse Taal. It is explored how these projects deploy technology and language as means to cr…
No Strings Attached
Critical Arts has hosted a number of special issues that revisit the “ethnographic turn” in contemporary art (see previous volumes 27 [5], 27 [6], and 30 [3]). The aim of these issues is to explore how artists engage with anthropological and ethnographic perspectives in their work, starting from the many forms in which art can present itself today. The issues zoom in on globalised, hyper-diverse societies in which different cultures and communiti…
What kind of silence is being broken?”
A Visual-Rhetorical History of the Out-of-Home Placement of Children in Poverty in 1990s BelgiumIn this article it is assumed that the documentary impulse that gave the impetus to Courage, a photobook on people in poverty published in Belgium in 1998, is related to how the General Report on Poverty, published in 1994, accused the sector of child welfare and protection services of a far too authoritative and coercive approach.This article analyses…
Contemporary Art
There is increasing interest in the confrontation between contemporary art and anthropology. This confrontation has been referred to as the “ethnographic turn” in contemporary art. The past few decades have seen a growing number of contemporary art projects that address questions about the study and theorization of cultural difference and the practice of representation. At the same time, there has been a growing interest in contemporary art among…
Shaping a ‘pedagogy of interruption’
This article theorises the role of educational agents in democratic education in urban contexts by engaging in the discussion about the relationship between citizenship, democracy and education. Therefore, we confront Gert Biesta’s conceptualisation of a ‘pedagogy of interruption’ with the empirical insights that emerge from a qualitative research project on democratic education in a particular urban context in Ghent (Belgium). We elaborate on th…
Exploring educational taboos through school movies. A rhetorical analysis of student-teachers' reflections
Participation, Art and Digital Culture
Participatory art has become an umbrella term for a broad range of artistic practices that focus on the importance of participation, interaction, social networks and processes as a crucial part of art projects and that move away from an exclusive focus on clearly defined and delineated art products. At the same time, the notion of participation in the arts is inevitably influenced by the increasing ubiquity of digital culture in which “participat…
The New Forest
In 2015, Leanne Schubert and Mel Gray wrote a critical commentary in the British Journal of Social Work entitled ‘The death of emancipatory social work and birth of socially engaged art practice’. In this commentary, the authors argue that artists have moved in to fill the void that increasingly emerges as social workers vacate the public spaces of activism and social change. However, there is little consensus in the existing body of research abo…
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