Creative Arts and Politics

About this course

Creative arts and politics is a combination that takes seriously the idea that art and political life are not separate domains. The arts have always been a medium for political expression, dissent, community-building, and the imagining of alternative possibilities, while political movements and institutions have shaped what art gets made, funded, and distributed. Studying the two together gives you both the creative practice skills and the conceptual and analytical tools to understand why this relationship matters, and how it works across different contexts and historical moments. At the School of Oriental and African Studies, this three-year full-time programme approaches both creative arts and politics with a distinctive emphasis on the global South and on traditions beyond the Western mainstream. You will study artistic practices from across Asia, Africa, and the Middle East alongsid

Where its graduates go

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