Creative Disruption

Thinking and doing through a diverse set of theories, methodologies and writing registers, this edited collection explores the potential of creative disruption as psychosocial praxis. Moments of disruption planned and unplanned are everywhere in the fragile terrain of society, from micro-level gestures of resistance and refusal at the local scale to globally disruptive phenomena such as climate and ecological breakdown and pandemics. The authors of this collection ask instead: how might the disruption we encounter open up junctures for creative and ethical psychosocial engagement?

This collection introduces new and emerging voices in psychosocial scholarship from within and beyond academia and the clinic, which brings unique perspectives that have been historically discarded, marginalised or neglected within mainstream academic knowledge production. The contributors examine disruption as a catalyst for discomfort and discontent, drawing from black feminism, whiteness studies, theories of racialisation, queer theory, disability studies, psychoanalysis, postcolonial studies, and more. The authors explore questions of power, knowledge, memory, embodiment and the potential of multidisciplinary approaches in nurturing disruption.

Explores the potential of creative disruption as psychosocial praxis Draws on queer theory, disability studies, psychoanalysis, postcolonial studies, black feminism, whiteness studies and theories of racialisation Situates psychosocial studies as fertile ground from which to creatively respond to disruption and generate ethical modes of creative transformation

Auteur

Guilaine Kinouani is the director and founder of Race Reflections. She is a psychologist and group analyst working across equality and justice. She has taught critical psychology and Black studies. She is the author of Living While Black (2021) and White Minds (2023). Her PhD at Birkbeck examines whiteness in the clinic.

Hannah Reeves is a PhD candidate at Birkbeck and a Senior Research Assistant with the University of Hertfordshire, UK. Her work explores human-nonhuman mingling in urban landscapes ethnographically. She has previously been a visiting scholar with the Centre for Environmental Humanities, Aarhus University, Denmark.

Clau Di Gianfrancesco is a PhD candidate at Birkbeck exploring how participatory theatrical practices such as Theatre of the Oppressed can drive social change, particularly concerning gender and sexuality.

Contenu

Introduction - by Clau Di Gianfrancesco, Guilaine Kinouani and Hannah Reeves.- 1. Dancing the dance of disruption - by Leila Lawton, Michelle Michael and John Adlam.- 2. Doing Love in Research - by Rayann Bryan.- 3. Fragmented, undone - by Clau Di Gianfrancesco and Elena Gkivisi.- 4. Echoes of the other language: Responding from another place - by Ayelen Hamity & Daniela Larraín-Salas.- 5. The Clinician as Killjoy (Without Killing Joy) - by Rebecca Esho Greenslade.- 6. Long Covid and the Politics of Disablement - by Robert Chapman and Micha Frazer-Carroll.- 7. Involuntary attention as creative disruption: meeting the urban wild with neurodivergent strategies - by Hannah Reeves (sample chapter included in proposal submission).- 8. Connecting as praxis: meeting the Other and meeting the self in qualitative research - by Guilaine Kinouani.- 9. Writing ourselves in - by Tulika Jha.- 10. Creative Disruptions With/In Psychoanalysis - by Arturo Bandinelli & Iris Aleida Pinzón Arteaga.- 11. Being Black Freud: A creative phenomenological exploration of the psychological impact of black activism - by Dwight Turner.- 12. Dramatizing Brexit as a Psychic Object - by Tom Fielder.- 13. "No, that pancake batter recipe is mine: Disrupting the Mammy Social Script in Nonprofits" - by Janedra Sykes.- 14. Dreaming to Wake Up to Whiteness - by Nancy Blair, Els van Ooijen, Halina Pytlasinska, Jennifer Ramsay and Jane Ribbens McCarthy.- 15. Afterword - by Clau Di Gianfrancesco, Guilaine Kinouani and Hannah Reeves.