Handbook of Arts-Based Research, Second Edition

Patricia Leavy, PhD, is an independent sociologist, novelist, and former Chair of Sociology and Criminology and Founding Director of Gender Studies at Stonehill College in Easton, Massachusetts. She is the author, coauthor, or editor of 40 nonfiction and fiction books, which have received numerous awards and have been translated into multiple languages. She has served as the creator and editor of 10 book series and is cofounder of the journal Art/Research International. For her work in the field of research methods, Dr. Leavy has received honors including the Distinguished Service Outside the Profession Award from the National Art Education Association, the New England Sociologist of the Year Award from the New England Sociological Association, the Special Achievement Award from the American Creativity Association, the Significant Contribution to Educational Measurement and Research Methodology Award from Division D of the American Educational Research Association (AERA), the Outstanding Achievement in Arts and Learning Award from the Arts and Learning Special Interest Group of the AERA, and the Special Career Award from the International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry. The School of Fine and Performing Arts at the State University of New York at New Paltz has established the Patricia Leavy Award for Art and Social Justice in her honor. Dr. Leavy delivers invited lectures and keynote addresses at universities and conferences. Her website is www.patricialeavy.com.

I. The Field
1. Introduction to Arts-Based Research, Patricia Leavy
2. Philosophical and Practical Foundations of Artistic Inquiry: Creating Paradigms, Methods, and Presentations Based in Art, Shaun McNiff
3. A/r/tography as Living Inquiry, Rita Irwin, Natalie LeBlanc, Jee Yeon Ryu, & George Belliveau
4. Dreaming Bigger: Culturally Congruent and Contemplative Approaches to Arts-Based Research, Kakali Bhattacharya
5. Creative Arts Therapies and Arts-Based Research, Cathy A. Malchiodi
6. Creativity and Imagination: Research as World Making!, Celiane Camargo-Borges
II. Literary Genres
7. Narrative Inquiry, Mark Freeman
8. The Art of Autoethnography, Tony E. Adams & Stacy Holman Jones
9. Revisiting “Long Story Short”: Encounters with Creative Nonfiction as Methodological Provocation, Anita Sinner, Erika Hasebe-Ludt, & Carl Leggo
10. Social Fiction, Patricia Leavy
11. Poetic Inquiry: Poetry as/in/for Social Research, Sandra L. Faulkner
III. Performance Genres
12. A/r/tographic Inquiry in a New Tonality: The Relationality of Music and Poetry, Peter Gouzouasis
13. Living, Moving, and Dancing: Embodied Ways of Inquiry, Celeste Snowber
14. Ethnodrama and Ethnotheatre, Joe Salvatore
15. Reflections on the Techniques and Tones of Playbuilding by a Director/Actor/Researcher/Teacher, Joe Norris
IV. Visual Arts
16. Arts-Based Visual Research, Gunilla Holm, Fritjof Sahlström, & Harriet Zilliacus
17. Drawing, Painting, and Story as Research, Barbara J. Fish
18. Collage as Arts-Based Research, Victoria Scotti & Gioia Chilton
19. Installation Art: The Voyage Never Ends, Jennifer L. Lapum
20. How to Draw Comics the Scholarly Way: Creating Comics-Based Research in the Academy, Marcus B. Weaver-Hightower, Paul J. Kuttner, & Nick Sousanis
V. Audiovisual Arts
21. Film as Research/Research as Film, Trevor Hearing & Kip Jones
22. Documentary Film as Arts-Based Research, Yehudit Silverman
VI. Multimethod and Team Approaches
23. Art-Based Inquiry of Marine Debris in Education for Sustainability, Karin Stoll, Wenche Sørmo, & Mette Gårdvik
24. Multimethod Arts-Based Research: Considerations of Space and Place in Arts Research, Jaime Lynn Rice & Susan Finley
VII. Arts-Based Research within Disciplines or Area Studies
25. Arts-Based Research in Education, James Haywood Rolling, Jr.
26. An Overview of Arts-Based Research in Sociology, Anthropology, and Psychology, Jessica Smartt Gullion & Lisa Schäfer
27. Deepening the Mystery of Arts-Based Research in the Health Sciences, Jennifer L. Lapum
28. Arts-Based Research in the Natural Sciences, Rebecca Kamen
29. Learning from Aesthetics: Unleashing Untapped Potential in Business, Keiko Krahnke, Donald Gudmundson, & Isaac Wanasika
VIII. Perspectives from Around the Globe
30. Arts-Based Research Traditions and Orientations in Europe: Perspectives from Finland and Spain, Anniina Suominen, Mira Kallio-Tavin, & Fernando Hernández-Hernández
31. Arts-Based Practices in Taiwan: An Agency for Change, Yichien Cooper
32. Personal Reflections on 10 Years of Arts-Based Research Practice in Japan, Masayuki Okahara
33. The London Arts-Based Research Centre: The Creative Psyche as Knowledge Generator, Roula-Maria Dib
IX. Additional Considerations
34. Criteria for Evaluating Arts-Based Research, Patricia Leavy
35. Translation in Arts-Based Research, Nancy Gerber
36. Arts-Based Writing: The Performance of Our Lives, Vittoria S. Daiello, Candace Jesse Stout, & Dani Clark
37. Art, Agency, and Ethics in Research: A Posthumanist Vision of Goodness in Arts Based Research, Jerry Rosiek
38. Seeing More: Aesthetic-Based Research as Pedagogy of Self-Cultivation, Liora Bresler
39. The Pragmatics of Publishing the Experimental Text, Norman K. Denzin
40. Going Public: The Reach and Impact of Ethnographic and Academic Research, Sarah Abbott &Phillip Vannini
Conclusion
41. On Realizing the Promise of Arts-Based Research, Patricia Leavy