Creative Approaches to Wellbeing: The Pandemic and Beyond - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1526172593 ISBN 13: 9781526172594

Publisher: Manchester University Press, 2024

Synopsis

A compilation of case studies illustrating how arts, culture and other community assets were used by individuals and communities to cope and develop resilience during the Covid-19 pandemic, demonstrating valuable lessons that might help us develop resilience in similar future crises. Threaded through all the contributions, readers will discover a focus on the experiences and voices of those marginalised during the pandemic, because of their lived experiences of structural inequalities, or due to mental or physical ill-health or age. These are difficult and complex topics, and there are vital lessons here for policy and for practice in the arts and for provision of health and care.
An electronic edition of this book is freely available under a Creative Commons (CC BY) licence.

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About this title

About the Author

Victoria Tischler is Professor of Behavioural Science at the University of Surrey.
Karen Gray is a researcher at the University of Bristol.

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From the Back Cover

During the COVID-19 pandemic, creative practitioners, cultural organisations and community groups produced and adapted work that addressed the challenges of isolation and lockdown conditions. They also created spaces and activities to support recovery and renewal. In Creative approaches to wellbeing, authors reflect on how individuals and communities coped, adapting and using creativity in ways that were sometimes everyday and sometimes extraordinary.

Significantly, chapters look forward from the pandemic experience, presenting case studies and detailed examples that suggest how arts, culture and other community assets might be mobilised - including through co-creation and co-production - to enable greater and more equal access to resources in future. The book reveals valuable lessons that might help us cope and develop resilience, now and in future crises. Threaded through all the contributions, readers will discover a focus on the experiences and voices of those marginalised during the pandemic, whether because of their lived experiences of structural inequalities, or due to mental or physical ill-health or age. These are difficult and complex topics, and there are vital lessons here for policy and practice in the arts, and for provision of health and care.

Edition details

• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Publication date: 2024
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1526172593
• ISBN 13: 9781526172594
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 264
• Editor: Gray Karen, Tischler Victoria