Occupational Therapy and Arts Therapies
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Item 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, MargaretThis 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.Item Moving objects: Memory and material culture(Liverpool University Press, 2020-12-01) Hills de Zárate, Margaret; Burdett, Charles; Polezzi, Loredana; Spadaro, BarbaraThis 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.Item 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, HeidrunThis 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.Item Tropical Path (Part 1): The Life and Work of Antonia Eiríz(University of London, 2010) Hills de Zárate, MargaretDrawing 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.Item Narrative, photographs and the experience of memory(University of London, 2012) Hills de Zárate, MargaretThemes 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.Item El arte terapia y la violencia política(Amarú Ediciones, 2011-03-01) Hills de Zárate, Margaret; Hernández, Luis Alberto MateosLas 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.Item Tropical Path (Part 2): The Life and Work of Antonia Eiríz(University of London, 2010) Hills de Zárate, MargaretThe 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'.Item Die Madeleine, die Erinnerung und das zufällige Denkmal(HPB University Press, 2015-02-07) Hills de Zárate, Margaret; Sinapius, Peter; Schmid, GabrieleSummary: 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).Item Arteterapia: un enfoque psicosocial(Universidad de Chile, 2009) Hills de Zárate, Margaret; Marinovic, M.; Reyes, P.Item ¿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