Epistemic communities: extending the social justice outcomes of community music for asylum seekers and refugees in Australia

Naomi Sunderland; Philip Graham; Caroline Lenette

doi:10.1386/ijcm.9.3.223_1

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Epistemic communities: extending the social justice outcomes of community music for asylum seekers and refugees in Australia

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Epistemic communities: extending the social justice outcomes of community music for asylum seekers and refugees in Australia

Naomi Sunderland, Philip Graham and Caroline Lenette

International Journal of Community Music, Vol.9(3), pp.223-241

2016

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1386/ijcm.9.3.223_1

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Performing Arts and Creative Writing

Education Systems

Specialist Studies in Education

asylum seekers

community music

complex settings

diverse teams

epistemic communities

inter-professional

interdisciplinary

refugees

This article reflects on the many diverse professionals who often come together around complex community music programmes to exercise and voice their own values and commitment to social justice and to work together to make a change more broadly in society. Drawing on a qualitative case study of an Australian refugee and asylum-seeker music programme, we argue that such diverse and values oriented music facilitation teams and their surrounding networks can be productively conceptualized, developed and evaluated as 'epistemic communities'. Epistemic communities consist of diverse professional and academic agents who share common values and beliefs about a social problem. They also share beliefs about things that they can do to effect change. In this case study, the common concern was social justice for refugees and asylum seekers. The common method for promoting change was music creation, participation and dissemination. We argue that the epistemic communities conceptual framework provides one way of conceptualizing the 'ripple' effects of complex community music programmes and the ways that music and other professionals and self-advocates (e.g. music programme participants) act as broader agents of social justice and social change.

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Title: Epistemic communities: extending the social justice outcomes of community music for asylum seekers and refugees in Australia
Authors: Naomi Sunderland (Author) - Griffith University
Philip Graham (Author) - Queensland University of Technology
Caroline Lenette (Author) - University of New South Wales
Publication details: International Journal of Community Music, Vol.9(3), pp.223-241
Publisher: Intellect Ltd.
Date published: 2016
DOI: 10.1386/ijcm.9.3.223_1
ISSN: 1752-6299
Copyright note: Copyright © 2016 The Author. The author's accepted version is reproduced here in accordance with the publisher's copyright policy. The final version is available at: http://dx.doi.org/10.1386/ijcm.9.3.223_1
Organisation Unit: Office of the Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Academic); University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland; School of Creative Industries - Legacy
Language: English
Record Identifier: 99451076302621
Output Type: Journal article

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