Doing Art in the Countryside : Special issue of Sociologia Ruralis
- Submitting institution
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University of Northumbria at Newcastle
- Unit of assessment
- 32 - Art and Design: History, Practice and Theory
- Output identifier
- 30615721
- Type
- B - Edited book
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- Publisher
- Wiley
- ISBN
- 0000000000
- Open access status
- Compliant
- Month of publication
- October
- Year of publication
- 2019
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
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- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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2
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- Proposed double-weighted
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- Reserve for an output with double weighting
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- Additional information
- The ambition of the special issue is to diversify the approach to art in rural research and introduce artistic research in particular. To this end the issue includes standard social science approaches that undertake research 'about' art practice, alongside more innovative social science collaborations 'with' artists, which is the case with Crawshaw's article in the issue. The issue also includes artistic research where the contribution arises from the making of artworks themselves. Introducing artistic research to rural studies is a distinct methodological innovation in the field that exceeds the contribution of Crawshaw's article itself. The special issue was supported by a research fellowship at the Moore Institute at the National University of Ireland, Galway that enabled Crawshaw to work with the other two editors. Menelaos Gkartzios (Centre for Rural Economy Newcastle University) joined Crawshaw at NUIG, also as a fellow, to develop the issue with Marie Mahon from NUIG in the School of Geography and Archaeology.
Crawshaw undertook the majority of the fieldwork which draws on her collaborative ethnographic practice. The fieldwork firstly involved developing an ethnographic approach to articulating the practice of Sander Van Raemdonck (artist-in-residence at Berwick Visual Arts); and then working with Sander, Menelaos Gkartzios (Co Author) and James Lowther (Berwick Visual Arts) to explore the possibility of Sander's practice within the context of planning in Berwick Upon Tweed. The research involved developing two workshops, including inviting participants to attend, to explore how Sander's practice could work in planning practice and how this might influence planning research.
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- Non-English
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