Doing Performative Social Science

<p><em>Doing Performative Social Science:</em> <i>Creativity in Doing Research and Reaching Communities</i> focuses as the title suggests on the actual act of doing research and creating research outputs through a number of creative and arts-led approaches. Performative Social Science (PSS) embraces the use of tools from the arts (e.g. photography dance drama filmmaking poetry fiction etc.) by expanding—even replacing—more traditional methods of research and diffusion of academic efforts. Ideally it can include forming collaborations with artists themselves and creating a professional research learning and/or dissemination experience. These efforts then include the wider community that has a meaningful investment in their projects and their outputs and outcomes.<br>In this insightful volume Kip Jones brings together a wide range of examples of how contributing authors from diverse disciplines have used the arts-led principles of PSS and its philosophy based in relational aesthetics in real-world projects. The chapters outline the methods and theory bases underlying creative approaches; show the aesthetic and relational constructs of research through these approaches; and show the real and meaningful community engagement that can result from projects such as these. <br>This book will be of interest to all scholars of qualitative and arts-led research in the social sciences communication and performance studies as well as artist-scholars and those engaging in community-based research.</p>