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Poetic Inquiry for the Social and Human Sciences:

Voices from the South and North

Heidi van Rooyen and Kathleen Pithouse-Morgan, editors

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ISBN: 978-0-7969-2656-2

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ISBN: 978-0-7969-2658-6

Poetic inquiry, or poetic research, is a literary and performance arts–based approach that combines arts and humanities with scientific inquiry to enhance social research. This groundbreaking collection shows how using poetry from diverse traditions in the Global South can promote innovative research on pressing social justice issues such as inclusion and decolonization. To that end, each chapter is complemented by an original poetry sequence interwoven throughout the book.

Heidi van Rooyen is group executive of the Impact Center at the Human Sciences Research Council. Kathleen Pithouse-Morgan is professor of education at the University of Nottingham.

Poets' Prelude— C.N. Snowber and R. d'Abdon.
Introduction: Growing Poetic Inquiry in the Human and Social Sciences—K. Pithouse-Morgan and H. van Rooyen.
VOICES AND SILENCES.
was I there?—R. d'Abdon.
Fragments—C.N. Snowber.
Interlude: Voices and Silences—Y. Sleip and R. d'Abdon.
Giving Voice Through Love: An Autoethnographic Poetic Inquiry—A. Hough and H. van Rooyen.
"We Will Not Be Silenced": Using Poetic Performance to Mobilize the Stories of African/African Descendant Women Living with HIV Who Work in Canadian HIV Service Work—L.A. Chambers et al.
What I Know Now That I Wish I Had Known When I Was Younger: Older Women’s Relationship Advice as Skinny Poetry—S.L. Faulkner and W.K. Watson.
Historical Trauma and Resilience: Finding Poetics to Amplify Austrralian Aboriginal Young People's Voices—R. Smallwood.
Unsilencing: Poetic Inquiry as an Act of Resistance at the University of Calabar, Nigeria—A.E. Timothy and A.M. Sullivan.
POETIC PATHWAYS.
Recipes in the Body—C.N. Snowber.
rigorous nonsense—R. d'Abdon.
Interlude: Poetic Pathways—M. Peté and D.S. Ndlovu.
Heartful Resonance: Belonging/Becoming into the Poetic—S.K. MacKenzie-Dawson.
Poetic Inquiry as Knowing Through Embodied Practice—S.L. Faulkner.
Eclipsing the Self: Using Erasure Poetry to See Behind the Edited Me—C. Badenhorst and H. McLeod.
Knowing Our Worth: Writing Poetry from Interviews to Propose New Modes of Value for Feminist Creative Practice—E. Collyer.
Intersections of Silence and (In)visibility-Hyper(in)visibility: Poems—K. Dark.
POETIC PRACTICES.
giant footprints—R. d'Abdon.
Transport—C.N. Snowber.
Interlude: Poetic Practices—A. Hough, M. Peté, and D. Nldovu.
Inquiring with Actor-Network Theory and Poetic Inquiry to Understand University Lecturers' Agency in Relation to Technology—M. Peté.
One in a Group: Dialogic Poetic Inquiry into Silence and Invisibility in the Academy—N. Brown et al.
Poetic Professional Learning Reflections: Stand in the Midst, Breathe—K. Pithouse-Morgan.
Levelling the Field in PhD Super-Vision: A Polyvocal Journey of Poemish Inquiry—Y. Sliep et al.
Collaborative Wordplay: Making Meaning Through Reciprocal Poetic Inquiry—T. van der Walt and T. Meskin.
The Captured-Uncaptured: Learning About Millennial History Teachers' Engagement with Post-Apartheid South Africa Through Poetic Inquiry—F.C. Gxwayibeni and T.M. Maposa.
Outro: Poetic Inquiry in the Social and Human Sciences: A Call to Action—the Editors.

Poetic Inquiry for the Social and Human Sciences:

Voices from the South and North

1800 30th street, suite 314 · Boulder, CO 80301

TEL: 303-444-6684 · FAX: 303-444-0824

EMAIL: [email protected]

Poetic Inquiry for the Social and Human Sciences:

Voices from the South and North

1800 30th street, suite 314 · Boulder, CO 80301

TEL: 303-444-6684 · FAX: 303-444-0824

EMAIL: [email protected]

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