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Art-stories as reflection: Learning from the Popoki Peace Project

English (英語)

国際協力論集

29(2)

27-51

神戸大学大学院国際協力研究科

2022-01

2022-02-03

This article addresses the ways people express their understandings, beliefs and feelings about feeling safe through art, stories, and art-stories. The purpose is to contribute to ongoing efforts to build a methodology for the analysis and understanding of art-stories about feeling safe, and to contribute to the conversation about reflective narrative, art and everyday security. It suggests that reflective art-stories can add an especially important, and often different, perspective to our understanding of what it means to feel safe. The article first provides a discussion of the meaning of stories, narrative and reflection, and discusses the importance of artstories in reflecting everyday feelings of safety. Examples of four art-story making activities conducted by the Popoki Peace Project are introduced and analyzed, focusing on the different ways the use of drawing and storytelling promotes reflection and expression of everyday understandings and feelings of being safe.

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