Full Description
Combining a series of interviews with creatives about how their work presents as activism with collaborative autoethnographic responses from the editors, this book demonstrates the power and evolution of autoethnography, as a form of both art and advocacy. With the interviews centring the work of artists, writers, a filmmaker and a printmaker as they challenges issues surrounding the environment, ageing, wellbeing, poverty, diversity and health, Jess Moriarty and Christina Reading put these ideas into a dialogue with a wide-variety of their own critical-creative responses, offering up methods of collaborative autoethnography and models for writers, students and practice-based researchers on how they can develop their own work as activism. Working to resist the criticism that autoethnography is inward-looking and narcissistic, Arts-Based Activism and Collaborative Autoethnography weaves together collective voices raised within the arts and activism that are more nuanced and multilayered than single voices alone. Engaging, readable and dynamic, this book is a champion of and an essential exploration of autoethnography, qualitative inquiry, social activism, arts-based scholarship and research.
Contents
List of Figures
List of Authors and Contributors
Acknowledgements
Introduction Why are we writing this? Why now? Jess Moriarty and Chris Reading
Chapter 1. Misogyny Jess Moriarty and Vicki Painting
Chapter 2. Challenging health taboos and creating to live well Jess Moriarty with Alf Le Flohic
Chapter 3. Who has time to be an activist? Christina Reading with Pat Naldi
Chapter 4. Reshaping the world: Imagination, activism and feminism Christina Reading with Michelle Williams Gamaker
Chapter 5. Collective action and community for creative activism Chris Reading and Jess Moriarty with Anthony Kalume
Chapter 6. Evolving Jess Moriarty
Conclusion Walking back - where are we now? Jess Moriarty and Chris Reading
