Special Issue: Arts and social justice. (Special Issue: Arts and social justice.)

ABSTRACT

This special issue presents three articles that grapple with questions around arts and social justice. The first article examines policy statements in New Zealand about the arts to shed light on the embedded assumptions about the nature and value of artistic work and the move away from social justice discourses in arts policy. The second article examines in what ways practices in the arts and social justice differ and intersect across cultural contexts, and what lessons can the creative sector glean from grassroots and systems-level approaches to arts for social justice, through vignettes from Colombia, Rwanda, and the USA. The third article examines the ways in which COVID-19 has impacted black, indigenous, and people of color (BIPOC) artists and arts administrators in the USA.