Creating Social Change Through Creativity

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xxxvii

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2. Co-construction of Knowledge & Positionality

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-2

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   2. “To Speak in Our Own Ways About the World, Without Shame”: Reflections on Indigenous Resurgence in Anti-Oppressive Research

      • Jeffrey Paul Ansloos

      Pages 3-18

   3. Listening Through Performance: Identity, Embodiment, and Arts-Based Research

      • Hilary Cooperman

      Pages 19-35

   4. The Role of Privilege and Oppression in Arts-Based Research: A Case Study of a Cisgender and Transgender Research Team

      • Owen Paul Karcher, Christine Caldwell

      Pages 37-53

3. Reflexivity and Listening

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 55-56

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   2. Struggling to see Through the Eyes of Youth: On Failure and (Un)Certainty in a Photovoice Project

      • Jennifer A. Sandlin, Seline Szkupinski Quiroga, Andrew Hammerand

      Pages 57-76

   3. Listen: The Defeat of Oppression by Expression

      • Angela Zusman

      Pages 77-93

   4. Conversations with Suzanna: Exploring Gender, Motherhood, and Research Practice

      • Amanda Barusch

      Pages 95-109

4. Methodological Processes

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 111-112

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   2. Insistent Humanness in Data Collection and Analysis: What Cannot be Taken Away—The Families and Prisons Project

      • Evan Bissell

      Pages 113-133

   3. Hearing Embodied Narrative: Use of the Listening Guide with Juvenile Justice Involved LGBTQ Young People

      • Sarah Mountz

      Pages 135-149

   4. Mapping Social and Gender Inequalities: An Analysis of Art and New Media Work Created by Adolescent Girls in a Juvenile Arbitration Program

      • Olga Ivashkevich, DeAnne K. Hilfinger Messias, Suzan N. Soltani, Ebru Cayir

      Pages 151-170

   5. Smoking Cessation in Mental Health Communities: A Living Newspaper Applied Theatre Project

      • Lauren Jerke, Monica Prendergast, Warwick Dobson

      Pages 171-186

5. Politics of Methodlogy and Data Representation

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 187-188

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   2. What’s in an Image?: Towards a Critical and Interdisciplinary Reading of Participatory Visual Methods

      • Sarah Switzer

      Pages 189-207

   3. From Visual Maps to Installation Art: Visualizing Client Pathways to Social Services in Los Angeles

      • Aleksey Reshetnikov, Elizabeth Bogumil, Moshoula Capous-Desyllas, Patricia Lara

      Pages 209-226

   4. Fragments/Layers/Juxtaposition: Collage as a Data-Analysis Practice

      • Karen Morgaine

      Pages 227-241

6. Community Sharing for Social Change

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 243-244

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   2. This is not a Lab Coat: Claiming Knowledge Production as Power

      • Madeline Fox, Una Aya Osato

      Pages 245-264

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.

• 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

• California State University, Northridge, Northridge, USA

  Moshoula Capous-Desyllas, Karen Morgaine

Moshoula Capous-Desyllas is Associate Professor of Sociology at California State University, Northridge, USA. She teaches various courses related to anti-oppressive social work practice, diversity and social justice, and qualitative and arts-based research methods.  Her passion lies in highlighting the voices of marginalized communities through the use of art as a form of activism, empowerment, and social change.


Karen Morgaine is Associate Professor of Sociology at California State University, Northridge, USA.  She teaches a variety of courses related to community organizing, anti-oppressive social work practice, and LGBTQQIP communities. Her research leans toward investigating social movement framing and power and privilege within social movements.

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