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An inquiry into the relationship between the visual arts and psychotherapy in post revolutionary Cuba
(Queen Margaret University College, 2006-03) Hills de Zárate, Margaret
This thesis focuses on the relationship between the visual arts and psychotherapy in post Revolutionary Cuba. The material on which it is based was collected over a fourteen month period and three visits to Cuba between April 1999 and August 2001. The study opens with the presentation of two brief histories, that of Cuban Art and Art Education and that of Cuban Mental Health Care. In this context the Revolution is taken as a useful reference point in terms of thinking about change and historical developments in both fields. Naturalistic Inquiry and Grounded Theory respectively were used to collect and analyse the data presented. These approaches allowed the researcher the degree of flexibility necessary to undertake research in a potentially delicate situation full of unknowns and to be able to modify and develop the course of inquiry as new evidence emerged. The main descriptive themes emerging from an analysis of the data pertain to the relationship between artists and mental health care professionals. These are (1) therapeutic work undertaken by artists, (2) artists working collaboratively with mental health professionals and (3) psychologists working with art as a therapy. The story which emerges pertains to a series of largely unrecorded histories spanning a forty year period. It begins with the work of Antonia Eiriz, who emerges as a key figure in the early development of art as a therapy and concludes with the work of the psychologist, Aurora García Morey, who takes centre stage in its continued development. This snapshot of Cuban art therapy is specific and unique and demonstrates the development of a very particular Cuban practice. However an analysis of the analytic themes which emerge from the data suggests that certain concepts such as responsiveness and pragmatism resound within a wider picture. These themes are discussed in chapters 7 and 8 with reference to the wider international context and specifically to the development of the profession in the United Kingdom. In my conclusions I suggest that these themes may be applicable to other areas of research and practice outwith and beyond Cuba and that while the concept of art therapy cannot be narrowly defined when it is applied to understanding practices in other, social, economic and cultural contexts, there are common factors which can be identified.
Art therapy and poverty: Examining practitioners’ experiences of working with children and young people in areas of multiple deprivation in West Central Scotland
(Taylor & Francis, 2017-11-21) Gilfillan, Paul; Hills de Zárate, Margaret; Watts, Patricia
Poverty can have a detrimental impact on the emotional well-being, educational attainment and future life chances of children and young people (CYP). It is known that poverty can also create several barriers to CYP and families accessing services. Furthermore, structural factors such as spending cuts on public services mean that professionals working with people affected by poverty have to ‘do more with less’. Practitioners could fail to acknowledge the impact of poverty if they have little cultural experience of poverty through their professional discourses and training. This could create a social distance between service-users and practitioners, as well as a misalignment of priorities, which could lead to inappropriate interventions being offered and opportunities missed to tackle the impact of poverty. This study gathered the views of 10 Art Therapists working in areas of multiple deprivation as determined by the Scottish Index of Multiple Deprivation (SIMD) in West Central Scotland. The aim was to examine practitioner’s perspectives on poverty and what they notice about its exploration by CYP in art therapy sessions. The study also considered if art therapists working in areas of multiple deprivation adapted their practice to create a contextualised and flexible service that would address the practical as well as the emotional impact of poverty. Data was collected through semi-structured interviews and analysed using thematic analysis. Whilst most participants showed an awareness of the difficulties faced by CYP affected by poverty, there was evidence that there were numerous cultural barriers meaning the indicators of poverty could be missed by some practitioners. Despite this, participants were clear on the various ways poverty is explored in sessions by CYP. Some art therapists adapted their practice on occasions to address the practical impact of poverty. However, several art therapists faced structural barriers to being able to tackle poverty. Therefore, the data suggests that cultural and structural barriers made it difficult for practitioners working in areas of multiple deprivation to consistently adapt their practice to create a contextualised and flexible service that fully addresses the emotional and the practical impact of poverty.
Arteterapia: un enfoque psicosocial
(Universidad de Chile, 2009) Hills de Zárate, Margaret; Marinovic, M.; Reyes, P.
Community music therapy with refugee children in transit camps on the Greek island of Chios: ‘Like one family, together’
(Routledge, 2024-01-25) Akoyunoglou, Mitsi; Tsiris, Giorgos; Herrmann, Uwe; Hills de Zárate, Margaret; Hunter, Heather M.; Pitruzzella, Salvo
This chapter is based on a five-year practice-led exploration of group music therapy with refugee children on the Greek island of Chios. Although an increasing number of music therapists work with refugees, practice is only sparsely documented, and there are rare accounts of work within transit camps to date. This chapter seeks to contribute to this gap. Extending beyond trauma-specific considerations, we outline the development of a community-oriented approach to music therapy in relation to the everyday refugee experience within formal and informal transit camps. The narratives and insights emerging from this exploration are explored alongside the principles of Psychological First Aid (PFA). We reflect on the role of music therapy in relation to refugee children's experience of crisis and adversity. Future directions that are transferable to other similar contexts of practice are discussed.
Die Madeleine, die Erinnerung und das zufällige Denkmal
(HPB University Press, 2015-02-07) Hills de Zárate, Margaret; Sinapius, Peter; Schmid, Gabriele
Summary: The madeleine, the memento and the accidental monument - This paper addresses the subject of diaspora from an auto-ethnographic perspective defined as a social constructionist project that rejects the deep-rooted binary oppositions between the researcher and the researched, self and others, process and product (Ellingson and Ellis 2008). It is a 'layered account' that makes no attempt to retrospectively trace the procedural nature of the author's research in any chronological order (Charmaz 1983). Instead it adopts a series of objects and takes these as frames of containers through which the role of memory and the world of objects are explored. The researcher consciously embeds herself amidst theory and practice by way of an autobiographic account (McIlveen 2008).
El arte terapia y la violencia política
(Amarú Ediciones, 2011-03-01) Hills de Zárate, Margaret; Hernández, Luis Alberto Mateos
Las terapias artístico creativas llevan implícitamente una forma diferente de concebir la salud y la enfermedad pues parten de una concepción holística del ser humano, más positiva e integral, en l nea con la definición de la Organización Mundial de la Salud en la que la enfermedad no es tanto la ausencia de salud sino la dificultad o incapacidad para acceder al propio potencial dentro del contexto concreto en el que vive la persona, asociado a una privación de bienestar físico, mental y social. El terapeuta artístico creativo sabe convertirse en argamasa que une diariamente a las personas de las instituciones, -usuarios, familiares y profesionales-, humanizando diariamente la convivencia entre unos y otros, centrndose en los objetivos prioritarios y contribuyendo a que poco a poco los destinatarios de las sesiones sean más protagonistas, no solo en la institución en la que se encuentran, sino sobre todo, y esto es lo más importante, en el desarrollo y destino de sus propias vidas. En muchos países del mundo las terapias artístico creativas tienen ya un desarrollo significativo como disciplinas científicas y profesionales, sustentadas por sus correspondientes formaciones universitarias. Varias son las publicaciones extranjeras de caracter introductorio que, en este sentido, precedena esta obra. Aquí se ofrece una referencia documental amplia y estructurada en español para un primer acercamiento de los universitarios y profesionales interesados, al tiempo que se le da un importante impulso al desarrollo de estas disciplinas.
Ethnography and modern languages
(Liverpool University Press, 2019-01-07) Wells, Naomi; Forsdick, Charles; Bradley, Jessica; Burdett, Charles; Burns, Jennifer; Demossier, Marion; Hills de Zárate, Margaret; Huc-Hepher, Saskia; Jordan, Shirley; Pitman, Thea; Wall, Georgia
While rarely explicitly recognized in our disciplinary frameworks, the openness and curiosity on which Modern Languages in the UK is founded are, in many ways, ethnographic impulses. Ethnographic theories and practices can be transformative in relation to the undergraduate curriculum, providing an unparalleled model for experiential and holistic approaches to language and cultural learning. As a form of emplaced and embodied knowledge production, ethnography promotes greater reflexivity on our geographical and historical locations as researchers, and on the languages and cultures through which we engage. An ethnographic sensitivity encourages an openness to less hierarchical and hegemonic forms of knowledge, particularly when consciously seeking to invert the traditional colonial ethnographic project and envision instead more participatory and collaborative models of engagement. Modern Languages scholars are at the same time ideally placed to challenge a monolingual mindset and an insensitivity to language-related questions in existing ethnographic research located in cognate disciplines. For Modern Languages to embrace ethnography with credibility, we propose a series of recommendations to mobilize these new research and professional agendas.
Exploring the Concept of Social Reconciliation Through the Experience of a Dance/Movement Therapy Group of Migrant Women in Spain
(Springer, 2024-05-29) Castellanos-Montenegro, Catherine Sophia; Hills de Zárate, Margaret
This paper explores the potential of Dance/Movement Therapy (DMT) as a means of contributing to social reconciliation processes. The study, conducted through a group process with migrant women living in Spain, suggests that the relationships developed between participants in the DMT group reflect some of the key elements underpinning theories of social reconciliation. The elements of trust, empathy, and a willingness to coexist with others can be understood as the return to a sense of community and belonging. Furthermore, working with migrant women appeared as an opportunity to explore the concept of social reconciliation beyond national borders as an initial step to understanding this phenomenon through DMT. In summary, it is proposed that Dance Movement Therapy, oriented towards the configuration of new forms of relationship, has the potential to contribute to the modification of polarization frameworks in group and community relationships, particularly in areas affected by conflict or social marginalization experienced by migrants and refugees. © The Author(s) 2024.
Meaning and methodology: An introduction to ethnography with Professor Marion Demossier and Dr Margaret Hills de Zárate
(University of Warwick, 2018-06-07) Wall, Georgia; Demossier, Marion; Hills de Zárate, Margaret
Addressing scholars new to ethnography in an interdisciplinary perspective, Prof. Marion Demossier and Dr. Margaret Hills de Zárate offer some reflections on the broader opportunities and implications of ethnographic approaches as a search not for truth, or rules, but for meaning in context. The authors discuss the opportunities and challenges of ethnography as opposed to other forms of data collection, reflexivity, the relationship between ethnography and text, and provide a range of further references.
¿Métodos y técnicas o metodología y epistemología?: La teoría visual contemporánea y su relación con las metodologías para investigar el Arte
(Amarú Ediciones, 2011-03-01) Hills de Zárate, Margaret; Hernández, Luis Alberto Mateos
Moving objects: Memory and material culture
(Liverpool University Press, 2020-12-01) Hills de Zárate, Margaret; Burdett, Charles; Polezzi, Loredana; Spadaro, Barbara
This chapter focuses on participatory ethnographic research and the role of objects as a vehicle of translation in relation to the transmission of Italian transgenerational identity in the Argentine province of Buenos Aires. It considers a series of objects, the narratives they embody and those they evoke within the context of events, discussion groups and individual interviews with narrator/participants who self-identified as being of Italian descent. I refer to these objects as ‘moving objects’ to include the performative and emphasise their shifting meanings through space and time but also their affective potential. As one thing or object leads to another in a chain of unfolding memories and associations, so, it would seem, does the past with the present and, in the case of the objects discussed, with a sense of what is Italian. With the exception of direct quotes, the terms ‘object’ and ‘thing’ are used interchangeably throughout to reflect a certain fluidity in their use by both participants and different authors.
Narrative, photographs and the experience of memory
(University of London, 2012) Hills de Zárate, Margaret
Themes relating to time, space, absence and loss are explored through narrative and image with particular reference to D.W. Winnicott's concept of intermediate space and Roland Barthes' writings on photography.
Transformed ground, transformed body: Clinical implications for dance movement therapy with forced migrants
(Taylor & Francis, 2020-06-14) Aranda, Elena; Hills de Zárate, Margaret; Panhofer, Heidrun
This paper considers the role of dance movement therapy (DMT) with forced migrants. The displacement of people refers to the forced movement of people from their locality or environment and occupational activities. It is a form of social change caused by several factors, the most common being armed conflict, although natural disasters, famine, development and economic changes may also be causes of displacement. In this study we consider the current situation experienced by people who have been forcibly displaced and the circumstances under which they left their country of origin, their journey and survival in the host country. A bibliographic review of DMT work with forced migrants and refugees highlights the importance of movement as a therapy with this population and stresses the urgency to find solutions for their integration in the host societies.
Tropical Path (Part 1): The Life and Work of Antonia Eiríz
(University of London, 2010) Hills de Zárate, Margaret
Drawing upon archival and interview material Part 1 of this extended paper describes the early life and work of the Cuban artist Antonia Eiríz Vásquez from 1951 to 1968. Eiríz’s artistic background, her influences and the political climate following the Revolution as it impacted upon her work are described. This material provides a background to her later involvement in community art as the founder of el arte popular (popular arts) which is described and developed in Part 2.In Part 2 reference to the broader history of the development of art therapy in Cuba is made and Eiríz positioned as a ‘forerunner’ of a particular strand of community based practice (Ben-David and Collins, 1966, p. 450). However, in Part 1, the focus rests on Antonia Eiríz Vásquez, the artist, and the events that paved the way to what was to come. In this manner I hope to demonstrate that her involvement with el arte popular (popular arts), as outlined in Part 2, was not a digression but rather an extension of her creative work which is what she herself always maintained.
Tropical Path (Part 2): The Life and Work of Antonia Eiríz
(University of London, 2010) Hills de Zárate, Margaret
The second part of this extended paper traces the life and work of the Cuban artist Antonia Eiríz Vásquez from 1968 (when she stopped painting) to 1993; when she left Cuba for Miami where she died in 1995. Drawing upon archival materials and interviews, her involvement with Arte popular and specifically one aspect of it, papier mache, is described. Her activity in this area is contextualized with reference to the political and economic climate of the period and with reference to the support and recognition this work received from the Cuban establishment. It is proposed that her involvement with Arte popular does not represent a complete break with her previous artistic, social and political concerns but rather provided a different route for their expression. As such, it is suggested that her innovative work in establishing Arte popular constitutes an example of cultural democracy which in turn provided the backdrop to the development of art therapy practices in Cuba and that this by implication positions her as a 'forerunner' of Cuban art therapy. The term 'forerunner' is used here as it is employed Ben-David and Collins (1966) and latterly by Waller, (1991) and Gilroy (2006) to describe how a profession develops from the interests of a few people, the 'forerunners', who pave the way for a 'new idea' to emerge. This 'new idea' or path is developed by others who establish an 'interest group' and so 'found' a discipline; the 'founders' then teach the 'followers'.