Between the How and the What: Negotiating the Messy Middle of Arts-Based Methodologies for Social Justice

Session Type: Symposium

Abstract

Arts-based methodologies offer compelling and innovative approaches to anti-racist and decolonizing research, but also present new and complex ethical challenges. In this session, four critical researchers describe their experiences designing and implementing arts-based methodologies with a focus on their reflexive processes of rejecting, selecting, and adjusting their multimodal approaches to generating and presenting data so their research can be more liberatory and creative, engaging for all involved. Focused on ethical dilemmas that arose, such as creative liberty, psychological harm, participatory limits, and privacy, this panel takes a stance of radical transparency, which holds that parsing through such issues, while difficult, is a key dimension of what makes arts-based methodologies so generative and rewarding.

Sub Unit

• Division D - Measurement and Research Methodologies / Division D - Section 3: Qualitative Research Methods

Chair

• Cybil Rose Yakira, University of Pennsylvania

Papers

• Latina (Im)migrant Mothers’ Trust in Dual Language Schools: Antroilustración as Arts-Based Methodology - Cybil Rose Yakira, University of Pennsylvania

• Intersections of Inattention: A Qualitative Inquiry Into the Experiences of Multiply Marginalized Students in Community College Settings - Jana N. Knibb, University of Rhode Island/Rhode Island College

• Siting and Citing: Troubling Participatory Binaries in Research - Victoria G. Restler, Rhode Island College

• Storytelling Con Cariño: The Ethics of Creating an Art-Based Archive With Mami and Abuelita - Wendy Barrales, New York University

Discussant

• Victoria G. Restler, Rhode Island College