Artistic Spaces for Rebuilding Social Fabric: The Colombian Case
Author(s):
Alberto Cabedo Mas
Maria Elisa Pinto Garcia
Gloria Patricia Zapata Restrepo
Andrea Rodriguez-Sanchez
Publication Year:
2019
Type:
book section
Journal/Book Title
Handbook of Research on Promoting Peace Through Practice, Academia, and the Arts:
Publisher
IGI Global
Editor(s):
Mohamed Walid Lutfy
Cris Toffolo
Pages:
251-277
Volume:
Issue:
Abstract:
This chapter analyzes the theoretical concept of social fabric, as well as the damage which armed conflict has caused it and how art can contribute to rebuilding it. Affective and symbolic characteristics of art, engaging the body, and the act of collective interpretation-creation may provide the conditions required for the necessary intangible and tangible factors to rebuild a social fabric damaged by war. Artistic spaces, as shown by a case in Colombia, can be an important place to generate, especially, intangible factors which keep the flow of social fabric active, such as values and beliefs, sense of community, confidence, and emotional stability of the individual and the group.
Citation (Chicago Author-Date):
Cabedo Mas, Alberto, Andrea Del Pilar Rodríguez Sánchez, Maria Elisa Pinto Garcia, and Gloria Patricia Zapata Restrepo. 2019. “Artistic Spaces for Rebuilding Social Fabric: The Colombian Case.” In Handbook of Research on Promoting Peace Through Practice, Academia, and the Arts:, edited by Mohamed Walid Lutfy and Cris Toffolo. Advances in Public Policy and Administration. IGI Global. http://services.igi-global.com/resolvedoi/resolve.aspx?doi=10.4018/978-1-5225-3001-5.