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Creative Critical Interventions for Social Justice is an edited volume grounded in a commitment to politically engaged research that moves beyond traditional scholarly forms. It examines knowledge that is often excluded from conventional academic production and explores the potential for creative critical writing and cultural production to advance social justice-focused research and practice. The book addresses hierarchies of knowledge creation and knowledge creators, bringing together artists, educators, community organisers, activists, researchers and writers working from decolonial, antiracist, queer and transfeminist perspectives.
The volume considers the role of storytelling and experimental, creative and often collaborative interventions across, between and beyond disciplines. Contributions include reflections on the uses of poetry in youth and climate justice work, conversational life stories as a research method in sociological studies of kinship formation, analysis of the potentials and pitfalls of centring researcher positionality and lived experience as a basis for scholarly analysis, relationality and the ethics of ethnographic work with radical political movements, speculative imaginings of the future of political organising and notions of rigour and care for the living and the dead in racialised archives.
Creative Critical Interventions for Social Justice is an edited volume grounded in a commitment to politically engaged research that moves beyond traditional scholarly forms. It examines knowledge that is often excluded from conventional academic production and explores the potential for creative critical writing and cultural production to advance social justice-focused research and practice. The book addresses hierarchies of knowledge creation and knowledge creators, bringing together artists, educators, community organisers, activists, researchers and writers working from decolonial, antiracist, queer and transfeminist perspectives.
The volume considers the role of storytelling and experimental, creative and often collaborative interventions across, between and beyond disciplines. Contributions include reflections on the uses of poetry in youth and climate justice work, conversational life stories as a research method in sociological studies of kinship formation, analysis of the potentials and pitfalls of centring researcher positionality and lived experience as a basis for scholarly analysis, relationality and the ethics of ethnographic work with radical political movements, speculative imaginings of the future of political organising and notions of rigour and care for the living and the dead in racialised archives.
‘This book brings together a wonderful collection of interventions to showcase the vibrancy of interdisciplinary and creative challenges to conventional academic knowledge and practice. The anthology as a whole is in the best spirit of vital (in all senses) calls for social justice. In the process, the editors and contributors animate the histories of care and beauty that feminist, queer, trans and decolonial projects have long brought into our institutions, and it expands those histories to ask bold new questions of the ongoing value of academic and poetic conversations about knowledge and transformation. I read it in one sitting!’ Clare Hemmings, LSE
‘Creative Critical Interventions for Social Justice is a handbook for anyone trying to make a thoroughfare through an institution not designed for their presence. How do you make something even as it, and you, are being unmade? This stunning anthology proposes imaginative labour as a mode of refusal that’s messy, truthful, dangerous and protective. It bursts with love for what might be possible when we live, write and teach from this place.’ Bhanu Kapil, Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature
Natasha Tanna (Editor)
Natasha Tanna (she/they) is Senior Lecturer in World Literature in the Department of English and Related Literature, University of York. She specialises in contemporary literary engagements with queer theory, decolonial theory and critical race theory. Previously, she was a Leverhulme Fellow in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese, UCL and Lecturer in Spanish at Cambridge.
Abeyamí Ortega Domínguez (Editor)
Abeyamí Ortega Domínguez is Honorary Research Associate in Social Anthropology at the University of Manchester. At the same institution, she was a Research Associate in the project ‘Comics and Race in Latin America’ (2021-2024). She is co-editor of Creative Critical Interventions for Social Justice (UCL Press, 2026). Other publications include ‘Public Art and the Grammars of Antiracism’ (in Polgovsky, 2023), ‘The mestizo gaze: visualizing racism, citizenship, and rights in neoliberal Mexico’ (Ethnic and Racial Studies, 2002) and ‘Marrón/x envisionings: visualising queer beauty as feminist antiracist affective refusal and care in sequential art activism’ (Feminist Theory, 2025).
Hakan Sandal-Wilson (Editor)
Hakan Sandal-Wilson (he/him) is Assistant Professor of Gender, Peace and Security at the Department of Gender Studies at the LSE. His research explores democracy, social movements, and the intersections of ethnic, religious, gender and sexual identities in conflict-affected states and societies in the Middle East. Previously, he was a Teaching Associate in Sociology at Downing College, University of Cambridge and an Affiliated Lecturer at Cambridge’s Centre for Gender Studies.
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