ABSTRACT
Doing Performative Social Science: Creativity in Doing Research and Reaching Communities focuses, as the title suggests, on the actual act of doing research and creating research outputs through a number of creative and arts-led approaches. Performative Social Science (PSS) embraces the use of tools from the arts (e.g., photography, dance, drama, filmmaking, poetry, fiction, etc.) by expanding—even replacing—more traditional methods of research and diffusion of academic efforts. Ideally, it can include forming collaborations with artists themselves and creating a professional research, learning and/or dissemination experience. These efforts then include the wider community that has a meaningful investment in their projects and their outputs and outcomes.
In this insightful volume, Kip Jones brings together a wide range of examples of how contributing authors from diverse disciplines have used the arts-led principles of PSS and its philosophy based in relational aesthetics in real-world projects. The chapters outline the methods and theory bases underlying creative approaches; show the aesthetic and relational constructs of research through these approaches; and show the real and meaningful community engagement that can result from projects such as these.
This book will be of interest to all scholars of qualitative and arts-led research in the social sciences, communication and performance studies, as well as artist-scholars and those engaging in community-based research.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
section 13Section I|13 pages
section Section II|79 pages
Theatre and Engaging Across the Fourth Wall
chapter 8|12 pages
What to Expect When You Aren't Expected
section Section III|52 pages
Education
chapter 9|14 pages
Changing life perspectives
chapter 12|12 pages
Don't Be Afraid to Be Performative!
section Section IV|36 pages
Poetry as Identity and Community
chapter 13|18 pages
“Alum rock is a bit like me”
chapter 14|16 pages
Embracing the Mosaic
section Section V|15 pages
Innovations
chapter 15|13 pages
Earth writing|Writing earth
section Section VI|23 pages
PSS, Virtual Realities and Self-reflection
section Section VII|13 pages
Conclusions