Andrea Medrado and Isabella Rega 2023. Artivism in Kenya: Mobilising (Her)stories, Linking Resources and Creating Media Territories. in: Andrea Medrado and Isabella Rega (ed.) Media Activism, Artivism and the Fight Against Marginalisation in the Global South: South-to-South Communication Routledge.
| Chapter title | Artivism in Kenya: Mobilising (Her)stories, Linking Resources and Creating Media Territories |
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| Authors | Andrea Medrado and Isabella Rega |
| Editors | Andrea Medrado and Isabella Rega |
| Abstract | Chapter 3 situates Kenyan artivism – the combination of art and activism – within the three axes that define South-to-South activism: (a) mobilising living (her) stories; (b) establishing spaces for dialogues and (c) campaigning on multiple media territories. Medrado and Rega discuss the work done by PAWA 254, an artivist hub that utilises art as a catalyser for social change. They demonstrate how artivism is used online and offline to challenge notions of tribalism and offer wider bonding possibilities. From a personal narrative – to collective artivist work – to their engagement with wider media territories and the city, Chapter 3 has a South-to-South dialogic nature. The aim is to inter-articulate and interconnect African and Latin American notions and concepts – such as guerreira, cria de favela and chaining (as in “linking”) – that stem from the research in Brazil and Kenya. Medrado and Rega emphasise the political qualities of empathy and dialogue. Having empathetic dialogues requires an identification of shared inequalities between oppressed peoples as well as strategies to tackle such inequalities. In the Kenyan context, art emerges as a special tool for dialogue, making it easier for people to speak and listen about difficult topics, promoting healing and reconciliation. |
| Book title | Media Activism, Artivism and the Fight Against Marginalisation in the Global South: South-to-South Communication |
| Year | 2023 |
| Publisher | Routledge |
| Publication dates | |
| Published | 05 Apr 2023 |
| ISBN | 9781003215103 |
| 9781032080833 | |
| Digital Object Identifier (DOI) | https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003215103-4 |
| Web address (URL) | https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003215103-4 |