Authors from Seven Countries contribute to book Doing Performative Social Science

I am pleased to announce that Taylor & Francis will publish Doing Performative Social Science: “Creativity in doing research and reaching communities” early in 2022. 

Pre-order now open.

https://www.routledge.com/Doin.../Jones/p/book/9781032035239

The book’s Chapters will include contributions from three Americans, six Britons, three Canadians, three Danes, and one scholar each from Germany, Japan and  Turkey. The authors come from disciplines ranging from Psychology, Education, Music Therapy, Nutrition, Movement & Dance, Law, Theatre, Sexualities, Disability Studies, Geography, Media, Virtual Reality and Circus Performance.

Focuses include a wide range subjects, including Theatre, Opera, Musical instruments and interviewing, Teaching, Embodied learning, Curating exhibitions, Audience participation drama, Queer women’s theatre, Life story installations, Pakistanis in the UK through poetry, Interview with a river, Walking as method, Poetry and community action, and Auto-ethnography.

Performative Social Science (PSS) is currently gaining attention, even popularity, amongst academics who are particularly frustrated with PowerPoint and “Zoom". A wide range of the arts (e.g., photography, dance, drama, filmmaking, poetry, puppetry, knit-bombing, fiction, and more) expands—even replaces—shop-worn methods of research, dissemination efforts, and learning. Ideally, PSS projects can include forming collaborations with artists themselves and creating a sophisticated investigation, education and diffusion package. These efforts also often include engaging the wider community as co-creators of projects and outcomes.

The book will demonstrate how contributing authors have used the arts-led principles of Performative Social Science and its philosophy based in Relational Aesthetics in real world projects. PSS will be fully demonstrated through its pragmatic use, be it in research, dissemination, performance, exhibition, community action, publication, education, and so forth. PSS provides the overarching intellectual prowess, strategies and methodological and theoretical strengths to engage and unite scholars across disciplines and, in turn, connect researchers’ endeavours with artists, communities and stakeholders.

List of Contributors
Kip Jones, Editor
Alison Upshaw 
Alisha N Ali
Becky White  
Catherine Morley
Jenny Scott  
Jim Brooks
Lisa Goldberg & Megan Aston
Charlotte Svendler Nielsen
Stine Klein Degerbøl
Guenter Mey
Masayuki Okahara
Qulsom Fazil
Helen Johnson 
Sophie Edwards
Sonya Grace Turkman
Tim Buescher

Previous Writings on Performative Social Science