Write a paper on the Art-based approach to community development* Case study and essay description will be provided in 2 separate documents * Critical assessment of the theory/-ies underpinning an arts-based development intervention – based on provided case study (Fighting HIV with juggling clubs: an introduction to Ethiopia’s circuses) Please consider the following types of broad questions: • Each project arguably addresses a perceived development issue (‘problem’). How is that issue characterised? o Do you think this is an accurate and defensible characterisation of what is really going on? o Have the authors supported this assertion? o Is their characterisation of the issue consistent with similar development issues in other contexts? i.e. does this statement of the problem stack up against development theory more broadly? • What mechanism or pathway do the authors posit by which the arts-based or sports- based intervention will address the issue? o Do they provide appropriate evidence from other sources that this is likely to be an effective way of addressing the issue? o Does this tally with evidence from other development projects (arts/sports- based or otherwise)? • As researchers writing for an academic journal, what research methods do they propose using to show that their theory is appropriate, defensible and useful in explaining the issue and how to address it? o Are these research methods appropriate to demonstrating the point they wish to make? o Do they demonstrate adequately the outcome (positive, negative or otherwise) that they claim?