Folk Media and Decolonizing Art Education: Rethinking Multiculturalism Through Intersectionality (Media, Culture and Communication in Migrant Societies)

Folk Media and Decolonizing Art Education advances a critique of conventional multicultural art education by centering folk media as a site of epistemic resistance and pedagogical transformation.The book argues that multicultural frameworks often reproduce liberal inclusion without dismantling colonial hierarchies and develops an intersectional, decolonial methodology attentive to race, caste, class, gender, indigeneity, and geopolitics. This book provides readers with actionable strategies to redesign art education curricula, assessments, and institutional frameworks in ways that are ethically accountable and socially transformative.Methodologically, it draws on the internationally acclaimed Interfaith Childhoods research project which combines ethnographic research, curriculum analysis, and close readings of community-based artistic practices across diverse contexts in diasporic settings.Through analysis of contemporary folk performance traditions, digital community movements, and gr