Alison Jeffers co-edited Culture Democracy and the Right to Make Art with artist Gerri Moriarty. The book contains twelve chapters that look at the community arts movement from the 1980s to today. Bloomsbury Methuen published it in 2017. In 2018 the book was awarded Gold Open Access status, enabled through institutional funds from the University of Manchester.
Read MoreAn account of the theory, history and practice of community art in Europe that combines decades of first-hand experience with new research, and many project descriptions.
Read MoreThis paper briefly explores the problematic notion of the “artist as a social worker” and aims to develop an (ethical) counterpoint to this position via Mouffe’s concept of agonism.
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