Poetic Inquiry as Social Justice and Political ResponseAbigail Cloud, Sandra L. Faulkner This volume speaks to the use of poetry in critical qualitative research and practice focused on social justice. In this collection, poetry is a response, a call to action, agitation, and a frame for future social justice work. The authors engage with poetry’s potential for connectivity, political power, and evocation through methodological, theoretical, performative, and empirical work. The poet-researchers consider questions of how poetry and Poetic Inquiry can be a response to political and social events, be used as a pedagogical tool to critique inequitable social structures, and how Poetic Inquiry speaks to our local identities and politics. The authors answer the question: “What spaces can poetry create for dialogue about critical awareness, social justice, and re-visioning of social, cultural, and political worlds?” This volume adds to the growing body of Poetic Inquiry through the demonstration of poetry as political action, response, and reflective practice. We hope this collection inspires you to write and engage with political poetry to realize the power of poetry as political action, response, and reflective practice. |
Contents
Poetic Inquiry as Pedagogical Practice | 1 |
Contemplative Somatic and ArtsIntegrated | 17 |
Poetic Inquiry into Place and Local Identities | 45 |
Opening into Relational Responsibility with Poetry | 55 |
Notes from a Year in Nigeria | 77 |
Claiming Identity in the Presence | 99 |
Poetic Inquiry as Praxis and Connection | 109 |
Poetry as Incantation | 123 |
Finding Dialogue | 151 |
Poetic Inquiry as Political Response | 163 |
Womanifesto Invitation for White Feminists | 177 |
Peace Ahimsa Pact | 189 |
Spectators in a Tragedy | 201 |
Reframing and Reflaming | 223 |
Biographies | 239 |
Index | 245 |
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