Outputs (16)

Creating a difference – a role for the arts in addressing child wellbeing in conflict-affected areas (2023)
Journal Article
Buser, M., Brännlund, E., Holt, N. J., Leeson, L., & Mytton, J. (2024). Creating a difference – a role for the arts in addressing child wellbeing in conflict-affected areas. Arts and Health: An International Journal for Research, Policy and Practice, 16(1), 32-47. https://doi.org/10.1080/17533015.2023.2168710

Background: This paper details findings from an arts intervention project that explored the role and potential for arts activities and art therapy to support the mental health and wellbeing of children living in Kashmir, an area of long-term confli... Read More about Creating a difference – a role for the arts in addressing child wellbeing in conflict-affected areas.

Interdisciplinary Research in Rajasthan, India: Exploring the Role of Culture and Art to Support Rural Development and Water Management (2020)
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This paper examines the role of art and culture in supporting rural development in the context of critical water challenges. It focuses on an interdisciplinary network and research programme conducted in 2018 with the village of Jhakhoda, in Rajastha... Read More about Interdisciplinary Research in Rajasthan, India: Exploring the Role of Culture and Art to Support Rural Development and Water Management.

Heritage art with an intent (2020)
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A collaborative research project called JAL explored the role and potential for the arts to support water security activities in Rajasthan. The intent was to learn about some of the challenges facing people in rural Rajasthan and to draw on the regio... Read More about Heritage art with an intent.

Care goes underground: Thinking through relations of care in the maintenance and repair of urban water infrastructures (2020)
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This paper extends understanding of the underground city and the workings of the urban backstage through a critical analysis of water infrastructure maintenance and repair. It is based on analysis of ethnographic work undertaken with water maintenanc... Read More about Care goes underground: Thinking through relations of care in the maintenance and repair of urban water infrastructures.

Coastal adaptation planning in Fairbourne, Wales: Lessons for climate change adaptation (2020)
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Adaptation to climate change is emerging as a central objective and policy frame for coastal communities. This paper examines recent climate change adaptation efforts in the UK, centring on the case of Fairbourne, Wales. The village is facing the lon... Read More about Coastal adaptation planning in Fairbourne, Wales: Lessons for climate change adaptation.

Blue space as caring space – water and the cultivation of care in social and environmental practice (2018)
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This paper studies three sites or ‘landscapes of care’ in Leeds, Bristol and London where water and associated built and natural environments are used to co-construct and facilitate forms of social and environmental care. Our research narrates the w... Read More about Blue space as caring space – water and the cultivation of care in social and environmental practice.

Machinic assemblages of publicness (2018)
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© 2018 Urban Research Publications Limited This article discusses the concept of publicness through the lens of Deleuze and Guattari’s machinic thinking. Centring on the case of the Bearpit, a roundabout and public space in the city of Bristol (UK),... Read More about Machinic assemblages of publicness.

The time is out of joint: Atmosphere and hauntology at Bodiam Castle (2017)
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© 2017 Elsevier Ltd Drawing on recent work in emotional and cultural geography, the author brings Derrida's concept of hauntology into communication with thinking about atmospheres. The research deployed a mixed-method approach including audio docume... Read More about The time is out of joint: Atmosphere and hauntology at Bodiam Castle.

Atmospheres of stillness in Bristol’s Bearpit (2016)
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© 2016, © The Author(s) 2016. This paper studies atmospheres of stillness in a contested urban public space known as the ‘Bearpit’. The purpose is to provide a nuanced account of stillness and its relationship to atmosphere. Drawing on an ethnographi... Read More about Atmospheres of stillness in Bristol’s Bearpit.

Becoming ecological citizens: Connecting people through performance art, food matter and practices (2016)
Journal Article

© The Author(s) 2016. Engaging the interest of Western citizens in the complex food connections that shape theirs’ and others’ personal wellbeing around issues such as food security and access is challenging. This article is critical of the food mark... Read More about Becoming ecological citizens: Connecting people through performance art, food matter and practices.