Covid in Cartoons
Covid in Cartoons
Empowering a thick narrative of the crisis by promoting cultural literacy and diversity skills amongst vulnerable young people
UKRI/AHRC Covid-19 Rapid Response call
(£352,054 at 100% FEC and £296,928 at 80% FEC).
This project will work with political cartoons and cartoonists to foster processes of meaning-making in relation to the current pandemic. Teaming up with , an international organisation of cartoonists founded in 2006 at the UN Headquarters, we will engage young people in building a critical narrative of the crisis and its impact. The aim is to promote an inclusive social response and curriculum, in partnership with Shout Out UK, a multi-award-winning educational platform. The project will be led by Dr Fransiska Louwagie (Arts, PI) and Dr Di Levine (LIAS, co-I) and run from January 2021 for a duration of 18 months.
Closely aligned to the UK-focused AHRC-project, is an IRDF-funded short-term project on Political Cartooning and Peace-Building in Conflict and Post-Conflict Contexts, that sees political cartooning workshops happening with young people in Côte d'Ivoire, South Africa, and Kenya.