Intercultural communication, creative practice and embodied activisms: arts-based interculturality in the Maghreb

Abstract

ABSTRACT Grounded by a theoretical framework of art and interculturality, critical intercultural communication, and performance studies, this study analyses women's intercultural arts-based practice and performance in the North African Maghreb region. We examine how creative practice is employed in constructing cultural identity, peaceful political resistance, and decolonisation of Maghrebi citizens and nations. We analyse how Maghrebi creative practice transcends linguistic, social, and political boundaries, offering possibilities for profound intercultural exchange. We also examine how creative practice allows re/envisioning cultural identities through music, dance and theatrical work, and developing diverse embodied, performative communities of feminist practice both within and outside the Maghreb.