Handbook of Arts-Based Research

Bringing together interdisciplinary leaders in methodology and arts-based research (ABR), this comprehensive handbook explores the synergies between artistic and research practices and addresses issues in designing, implementing, evaluating, and publishing ABR studies. Coverage includes the full range of ABR genres, including those based in literature (such as narrative and poetic inquiry); performance (music, dance, playbuilding); visual arts (drawing and painting, collage, installation art, comics); and audiovisual and multimethod approaches. Each genre is described in detail and brought to life with robust research examples. Team approaches, ethics, and public scholarship are discussed, as are innovative ways that ABR is used within creative arts therapies, psychology, education, sociology, health sciences, business, and other disciplines. The companion website includes selected figures from the book in full color, additional online-only figures, and links to online videos of performance pieces. See also Dr. Leavy's authored book, Method Meets Art, Third Edition, an ideal course text that provides an accessible introduction to ABR.

Table of Contents:
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. The Performative Movement in Social Science, Kenneth J. Gergen & Mary M. Gergen 5. Creative Arts Therapies and Arts-Based Research, Cathy A. Malchiodi 6. Creativity and Imagination: Research as World Making!, Celiane Camargo-Borges 7. Arts-Based Research Traditions and Orientations in Europe: Perspectives from Finland and Spain, Anniina Suominen, Mira Kallio-Tabin, & Fernando Hernández-Hernández II. Literary Genres 8. Narrative Inquiry, Mark Freeman 9. The Art of Autoethnography, Tony E. Adams & Stacy Holman Jones 10. Long Story Short: Encounters with Creative Nonfiction as Methodological Provocation, Anita Sinner, Erika Hasebe-Ludt, & Carl Leggo 11. Fiction-Based Research, Patricia Leavy 12. Poetic Inquiry: Poetry as/in/for Social Research, Sandra L. Faulkner III. Performance Genres 13. A/r/tographic Inquiry in a New Totality: The Rationality of Music and Poetry, Peter Gouzouasis 14. Living, Moving, and Dancing: Embodied Ways of Inquiry, Celeste Snowber 15. Ethnodrama and Ethnotheatre, Joe Salvatore 16. Reflections on the Techniques and Tones of Playbuilding by a Director/Actor/Researcher/Teacher, Joe Norris IV. Visual Arts 17. Arts-Based Visual Research, Gunilla Holm, Fritjof Sahlström, & Harriet Zilliacus 18. Drawing and Painting Research, Barbara J.Fish 19. Collage as Arts-Based Research, Victoria Scotti & Gioia Chilton 20. Installation Art: The Voyage Never Ends, Jennifer L. Lapum 21. How to Draw Comics the Scholarly Way: Creating Comics-Based Research in the Academy, Paul Kuttner, Nick Sousanis, & Marcus B. Weaver-Hightower V. Audiovisual Arts 22. Film as Research/Research as Film, Trevor Hearing & Kip Jones 23. Ethnocinema and Video-Based Research, Anne Harris VI. Mixed Method and Team Approaches 24. Sea Monsters Conquer the Beaches: Community Art as an Educational Resource—a Marine Debris Project, Karin Stoll, Wenche Sørmo, & Mette Gårdvik 25. Multimethod Arts-Based Research, Susan Finley VII. Arts-Based Research within Disciplines or Area Studies 26. Arts-Based Research in Education, James Haywood Rolling, Jr. 27. An Overview ofArts-Based Researchin Sociology, Anthropology, and Psychology, Jessica Smartt Gullion & Lisa Schäfer 28. Deepening the Mystery of Arts-Based Research in the Health Sciences, Jennifer L. Lapum 29. Arts-Based Research in the Natural Sciences, Rebecca Kamen 30. Learning from Aesthetics: Unleashing Untapped Potential in Business, Keiko Krahnke & Donald Gudmundson VIII. Additional Considerations 31. Criteria for Evaluating Arts-Based Research, Patricia Leavy 32. Translation in Arts-Based Research, Nancy Gerber & Katherine Myers-Coffman 33. Arts-Based Writing: The Performance of Our Lives, Candace Jesse Stout & Vittoria S. Daiello 34. Art, Agency, and Ethics in Research: How the New Materialisms Will Require and Transform Arts-Based Research, Jerry Rosiek 35. Aesthetic-Based Research as Pedagogy: The Interplay of Knowing and Unknowing toward Expanded Seeing, Liora Bresler 36. The Pragmatics of Publishing the Experimental Text, Norman K. Denzin 37. Going Public: The Reach and Impact of Ethnographic Research, Phillip Vannini & Sarah Abbott Conclusion: On Realizing the Promise of Arts-Based Research, Patricia Leavy