The patch as method

The arts’ contribution towards understandings of conflict

Bibliographic Data

ID6299454
AuthorsDaniele Rugo (0000-0001-8606-9524, Brunel University of London, corresponding author)
Year2024
Volume45
Issue1
Pages81-93
Publication date2024-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueInternational Political Science Review (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0192-5121 • E-ISSN: 1460-373X
PublisherSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/01925121231177442
PMID38074311
OpenAlexW4379142414
LanguageEN
Citations received2
References cited35

This article asks: how do art practice and research give form to changing dynamics of conflict? Its argument is two-fold: art’s contribution can be developed from empirical considerations (what art finds out), and from methodological ones (how art finds something out). Bringing in art practice and the research methods it informs into political science helps understand conflict and its changes: by engaging simultaneously with the interaction between the collective and the personal, art practice and research elucidates those complex and layered narratives used by various actors in conflict that often resist approaches rooted in social and political sciences. By paying attention to everyday interactions and emphasizing dynamism, art provides a different way to chart changes in armed conflict. Art documents discourses that are difficult to communicate otherwise and allows us to detect and engage with the grey areas, transformations, processes and ambivalences of conflicts that escape neat categorizations

Aesthetics · Argument (complex analysis · Art methodology · Conflict resolution · Contemporary art · Dynamics (music · Dynamism · Epistemology · Narrative · Political science · Politics · Social science · Sociology · The arts · Cambodian History and Society · Communism, Protests, Social Movements · History · Law · Peacebuilding and International Security

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