Collaborative Arts-based Research for Social Justice

Foster, Victoria

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“…Furthermore, the literature acknowledges that research involving deep relationships of trust with community-based researchers needs to be managed carefully, and can be challenging and distressing at times for all concerned (Cook, 2012;Banks et al, 2013;Foster, 2016;Rasool, 2018). Yet, the more textured and difficult aspects of participatory research may be deliberately excluded -usually through selfcensorship -from traditional avenues such as peer-reviewed academic journals, due to perceptions that the focus should be solely on disseminating positive findings and 'victory narratives' (Owen et al, 2005: 339), rather than on reflexive research practice where difficulties are highlighted.…”

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“…But in the face of unforeseen dilemmas and risks in participatory research, academic researchers are often 'on their own' when deciding on the best course of action (Lenette et al, 2018;Blake, 2007). In this context, collaboratively balancing expectations and requests without compromising one's academic integrity is not unusual, reflecting the 'emotional labor' (Foster, 2016) involved in participatory research. Conversely, as we explore in our reflections, virtues of care, compassion and equality upheld by many academic researchers engaged in participatory research can also become their 'burdens', sometimes even putting them in 'dangerous situations' where they can get hurt (Banks et al, 2013;Kara, 2017).…”

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Brushed under the carpet: Examining the complexities of participatory research

Lenette¹,

Stavropoulou²,

Nunn³

et al. 2019

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Participatory research is sometimes difficult and risky, but there is a paucity of opportunities – and some reluctance – to reflect on its challenging aspects. In this article, we present subjective accounts of our everyday experiences of conducting participatory research as women researchers. We focus on four themes from our combined research experiences to explore some of the frustrations we encounter in participatory research. We argue that it is crucial to identify, reflect upon and address such aspects in academic outputs to broaden debates and scholarly discussions. We offer these reflections, and related strategies, as a contribution to critical debates on participatory research practice.

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Brushed under the carpet: Examining the complexities of participatory research

Lenette¹,

Stavropoulou²,

Nunn³

et al. 2019

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“…Although a substantial literature on art-based research now exists (e.g., Bagley & Cancienne, 2002;Barone & Eisner, 2012;Belliveau & Westwood, 2016;Cahnmann-Taylor & Siegesmund, 2007;Foster, 2016;Haywood Rolling, 2013;Jagodzinski & Wallin, 2013;Leavy, 2009Leavy, , 2018Liamputtong & Rumbold, 2008;McNiff, 2008), little had been published when we began our research journeys in the early 2000's. Within our fields -psychology/sport and exercise science -we were no more aware of emerging arts-based literature than were our advisors and teachers.…”

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Engaging with arts-based research: a story in three parts

Douglas

Carless

2018

Qualitative Research in Psychology

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Qualitative psychology researchers of today face numerous practical, ethical, political and theoretical challenges. We have often asked ourselves how we might respond to these multiple and complex challenges. On our evolving research journeys, we have found that arts-based methodologies offer one effective response. We explore here our experiences of doing arts-based research in psychological contexts, by sharing and reflecting on three short stories. The stories illustrate how each arts-based project has required of us three distinct waves of engagement: interdependent engagement with people and place, aesthetic engagement with sense making processes, and emotional engagement with-and ofaudiences. We use the story form to evoke each wave of engagement because it allows us to communicate the qualities of that engagement without finalising, foreclosing or restricting the variety of ways arts-based research might be conducted.

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“…There have been in the social sciences, in recent years, successful attempts to capture the "realm of complex, finely nuanced meaning that is embodied, tacit, intoned, gestured, improvised, co-experienced, covert" (Conquergood 2002:146). These have involved, among others, artsbased and performative methods (see : Foster 2016), creative approaches (see : Atkinson 2013), autoethnography (see: Kafar and Ellis 2014), visual methods (see : Chaplin 2005;Pink 2007), feminist approaches (see : Sprague 2016), and queer methodologies (see: Nash and Browne 2016). A surrealist approach to social research would be aligned with such approaches that seek lively and inventive ways to come closer to being able to access the unspoken and intangible, and in the process come face to face with issues that have implications for the wider social world.…”

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“…The act of keeping methodology "open, alive, loose" (Lather 2010:x), of acknowledging a variety of perspectives, requires an acceptance of difference and even the embracing of paradox (Foster 2016). The juxtapositions, ambiguities, and absurdities celebrated in surrealism can provide some inspiration here, not least when they come with a dose of humor.…”

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The Return of the Surreal: Towards a Poetic and Playful Sociology

Foster

2019

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KeywordsThis article argues that the time is ripe to reacquaint sociology and surrealism. Taking inspiration from surrealism's emphasis on making the ordinary strange through bizarre, lively and sometimes haunting methods might result in a more poetic and playful sociology. The article looks at how this might be applied in practice through drawing on a variety of examples of social research that share some of the tenets of surrealism, not least the latter's focus on social justice. This enables discussion of a number of methodological concerns stemming from feminist and post-structuralist thought, including the troubling of narrative coherency and the notion of "voice." Infusing sociology with "a surrealist spirit" requires opening up and moving away from rationality in ways that allow for the exploration of contradictions, irreverence, humor, and paradox. Victoria Foster is a Senior Lecturer in Social Sciencesat Edge Hill University, UK. She has a particular interest in collaborative, arts-based approaches to research with community groups. She is also the Associate Practice (I4P) which involves facilitating meaningful knowledge exchange between academics, practitioners, policy makers, and communities. email address: Victoria.Foster@edgehill.ac.uk tery, and chance encounters that rocked the good taste and rational outlook of the establishment. Refusing to take life at face value, not least because this would mean accepting social and political norms, the movement has produced a vast range of influential art, poetry, literature, and performance that has posed a challenge to the status quo. Known for its strange, dream-like juxtapositions, and visual non sequiturs, early surrealism was influenced by psychoanalysis. Rather than reduce Freud's work to an elitist form of therapy, though, Surrealists "put it in the service of poetry and revolution" (Rosemont 1998:45). Its central technique of free association liberated repressed desire and shone a light on the world of dreams and daydreams, and important-T he surrealist movement began in the 1920s in Paris, quickly spreading throughout Europe and Latin America, unleashing a whirlwind of desire, hysteria, dreams, games, radical poetry, mys-Qualitative Sociology Review • www.qualitativesociologyreview.org

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Collaborative Arts-based Research for Social Justice

Cited by 39 publications

References 8 publications

Brushed under the carpet: Examining the complexities of participatory research

Brushed under the carpet: Examining the complexities of participatory research

Engaging with arts-based research: a story in three parts

The Return of the Surreal: Towards a Poetic and Playful Sociology

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