Creating Social Change Through Creativity: Anti-Oppressive Arts-Based Research Methodologies

by Moshoula Capous-Desyllas (Editor), Karen Morgaine (Editor)

Overview

This book examines research using anti-oppressive, arts-based methods to promote social change in oppressed and marginalized communities. The contributors discuss literary techniques, performance, visual art, and new media in relation to the co-construction of knowledge and positionality, reflexivity, data representation, community building and engagement, and pedagogy. The contributors to this volume hail from a wide array of disciplines, including sociology, social work, community psychology, anthropology, performing arts, education, medicine, and public health.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9783319521282
Publisher:	Springer International Publishing
Publication date:	11/09/2017
Edition description:	1st ed. 2018
Pages:	399
Product dimensions:	5.83(w) x 8.27(h) x (d)

About the Author

Moshoula Capous-Desyllas is Associate Professor of Sociology at California State University, Northridge, USA. She teaches various courses related to anti-oppressive social work practice, diversity and social justice, and qualitative and arts-based research methods. Her passion lies in highlighting the voices of marginalized communities through the use of art as a form of activism, empowerment, and social change.

Karen Morgaine is Associate Professor of Sociology at California State University, Northridge, USA. She teaches a variety of courses related to community organizing, anti-oppressive social work practice, and LGBTQQIP communities. Her research leans toward investigating social movement framing and power and privilege within social movements.

Table of Contents

Section 1: Co-construction of Knowledge & Positionality

1. “To Speak in Our Own Ways About the World, Without Shame”: Reflections on Indigenous Resurgence in Anti-Oppressive Research
2. Listening through Performance; Identity, Embodiment, and Arts-Based Research
3. The Role of Privilege and Oppression in Arts-Based Research: A Case Study of a Cisgender and Transgender Research Team

Section 2: Reflexivity

4. Struggling to See through the Eyes of Youth: On Failure and (Un)Certainty in a Photovoice Project
5. Listen: The Defeat of Oppression by Expression
6. Conversations with Suzanna: Exploring Gender, Motherhood, and Research Practice

Section 3: Methodological Processes

7. Insistent Humanness in Data Collection and Analysis: What Cannot Be Taken Away: The Families and Prisons Project
8. Hearing Embodied Narrative: Use Of The Listening Guide With Juvenile Justice Involved LGBTQ Young People
9. Mapping Social and Gender Inequalities: An Analysis of Art and New Media Work Created by Adolescent Girls in a Juvenile Arbitration Program
10. Smoking Cessation In Mental Health Communities: A Living Newspaper Applied Theatre Project

Section 4: Politics of Methodlogy and Data Representation

11. What’s in an Image?: Towards a Critical and Interdisciplinary Reading of Participatory Visual Methods
12. From Visual Maps to Installation Art: Visualizing Client Pathways to Social Services in Los Angeles
13. Fragments/layers/juxtaposition: Collage as a Data-Analysis Practice

Section 5: Community Sharing for Social Change

14. This is not a Lab Coat: Claiming Knowledge Production as Power
15. Making Research and Building Knowledge with Communities: Examining Three Participatory Visual and Narrative Projects with Migrants Who Sell Sex in South Africa
16. AEMP Handbook by The Anti-Eviction Mapping Project (AEMP)

Section 6: Community Building and Engagement

17. From the Inside Out: Using Arts-Based Research to Make Prison Art Public

18. Envisioning Home: The Philadelphia Refugee Mental Health Photovoice Project as a Story of Effective Relationship Building

Section 7: Pedagogical Approaches

19. Spoken Word as Border Pedagogy with LGBTQ Youth
20. Lessons in Dialogue, Ethics, and the Departure from Well-Laid Plans in the Cultivation of Citizen Artists