Publication date: 4 February 2026
DOI: https://doi.org/10.14324/111.9781806550067
Number of illustrations: 5
Creative Critical Interventions for Social Justice
Natasha Tanna (Editor), Abeyamí Ortega Domínguez (Editor), Hakan Sandal-Wilson (Editor)
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.
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Creative Critical Interventions for Social Justice
Series: Comparative Literature and Culture
Publication date: February 4, 2026
Open Access PDF ISBN: 9781806550067
Paperback ISBN: 9781806550050
Hardback ISBN: 9781806550043
Trim size (hardback): 23.4cm x 15.6cm
Trim size (paperback): 23.4cm x 15.6cm
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
