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This book offers arts-based solutions to the threats to democracies around the world and features chapter authors who are artists, activists, curators, and teachers applying creative and cultural practices in deliberate efforts to build democratic ways of working and interacting in their communities around the world.



Democracy as Creative Practice: Weaving a Culture of Civic Life offers arts-based solutions to the threats to democracies around the world, practices that can foster more just and equitable societies. Chapter authors are artists, activists, curators, and teachers applying creative and cultural practices in deliberate efforts to build democratic ways of working and interacting in their communities in a range of countries including the US, Australia, Portugal, Nepal, the UK, and Canada. The book demonstrates how creativity is integrated in place-based actions, aesthetic strategies, learning environments, and civic processes. As long-time champions and observers of community-based creative and cultural practices, editors Tom Borrup and Andrew Zitcer elucidate work that not only responds to socio-political conditions but advances practice. They call on artists, funders, cultural organizations, community groups, educational institutions, government, and others to engage in and support this work that fosters a culture of democracy. This book is intended for undergraduate and graduate students in the humanities and social sciences, activists, funders, and artists who seek to understand and effect change on local and global scales to preserve, extend, and improve practices of democracy.

Introduction: The Unraveling of Democracy and Reweaving Civic Life Part
One: Place-Based Actions Introduction to Place-Based Actions: Following the
Thread of Place-Based Actions
1. Repurposing Agricultural Infrastructure to
Build Cultures of Democracy in Rural Communities: A Case Study from
North-West Victoria
2. Lake Street Arts! Creative Democracy in Practice
3.
How "Creative Recovery" Stimulates a Culture of Democracy: Case Studies of
Post-Disaster Creativity in Rural Australia
4. Democracy as Demonstration: A
Lifelong, Dreamed of, Home Part Two: Aesthetic Strategies Introduction to
Aesthetic Strategies: Remaking Worlds and Ourselves: Aesthetic Strategies for
a Culture of Democracy
5. Co-Creating Democracy: Aesthetics in Action
6.
Braiding Comedy in Precarious Times: The Possibilities and Pitfalls of
Research Creation in the Settler Colonial University
7. Mediating Provisional
Communities: The Production and Management of Collaborative Arts Projects
Part Three: Learning Environments Introduction to Learning Environments:
Learning and Practice - Democracty in Action
8. Reflections on Doing Visual
Politics: Photography, Collaboration, and Creative Practice as Civil Action
9. All the Relatives: Animating Stories of Democratic Participation Through
Speaking Out
10. The Ray of Hope Project and Women Composers Festival:
Reframing Narratives
11. The Power of Storytelling: Practicing a Culture of
Democracy With Young Students Part Four: Civic Processes Introduction to
Civic Processes: Get With It: A Play of Civic Processes
12. Democracy Is in
the Making: Just Acts Model for Rehumanizing Community Engagement
13.
Creating Our Next LA: Art Animating Powerful Congregation-Based Campaigns for
Justice
14. Warm Cookies of the Revolution: A Case Study of Democratic
Culture Through the Framework of Civic Health
15. Civic Artists Reimagining
Democracy
16. The Most Optimistic Way I Have of Envisioning Our Collective
Future Editors Summary and Conclusion
Tom Borrup is Senior Lecturer and Director of Graduate Studies for the Arts and Cultural Leadership and Civic Engagement Programs at the University of Minnesota and a community and cultural planning consultant.

Andrew Zitcer is an associate professor at Drexel University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA, where he directs the Urban Strategy graduate program.