Creating Social Change Through Creativity

Non-Fiction: Chapters/Essays/Monographs
Written By Amanda Barusch

  • Title – Creating Social Change Through Creativity

  • Subtitle – Anti-oppressive arts-based research methodologies

  • Editors – M. Capous-Desyllas & K. Morgaine (Eds)

  • Amanda Barusch’s Contribution – Chapter 6: Conversations with Suzanna: Exploring gender, motherhood, and research practice.

  • Genre – Sociology

  • Type – Book

  • Publication Date – Nov. 7, 2017

  • Publisher – Palgrave Macmillan

  • Medium – Hardcover, Softcover, eBook, PDF

  • Available at – Springer Link

  • Link – https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-319-52129-9

  • PDF – Chapter 6: Conversations with Suzanna

  • Synopsis – 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.

Book cover titled "Creating Social Change Through Creativity: Anti-Oppressive Arts-Based Research Methodologies," featuring a blue door and edited by Moshoula Capous-Desyllas and Karen Morgaine. This insightful book is available on Springer Link.
Amanda Barusch

Amanda Barusch has worked as a janitor, exotic dancer, editor, and college professor. She lives in the American West, where she spends as much time as possible on dirt paths. She has an abiding disdain for boundaries and adores ambiguity. Amanda has published eight books of non-fiction, a few poems, and a growing number of short stories. Aging Angry is her first work of creative non-fiction. She uses magical realism to explore deep truths of the human experience in this rapidly changing world.

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