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

Book 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.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3319521284
• ISBN13: 9783319521282
• Release Date: November 2017
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 399 Pages
• Weight: 1.89 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 5.8" x 8.3"