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.
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.
Features interdisciplinary contributions that center on praxis and social change work Explores the intersections of arts-based and anti-oppressive research methodologies Illuminates understudied artistic genres Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Moshoula Capous-Desyllas
Social change work Oppressed communities Visual research Auto-ethnography Identity social work social change social development marginalization marginalized communities community building community psychology performing arts