Feminism, Adult Education and Creative Possibility: Imaginative Responses

This book argues that feminist aesthetics as practices of adult education can inform our responses to gendered, racial, class and ecological injustices. It illustrates the critical, creative, and provocative pedagogical theorising, research, and engagement work of feminist adult educators and researchers who work in diverse community, institutional, and social movement contexts across North America and Europe. This book captures the complexity, diversity, energy, and imagination of those who theorise, decolonise, facilitate, investigate, visualize, story, and create within the politics of gender (in)justice and radical change.

ISBN-13: 9781350231085

Media Type: Paperback

Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic

Publication Date: 11-30-2023

Pages: 272

Product Dimensions: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.56d

Series: Bloomsbury Critical Education

Darlene E. Clover is Professor of Adult Education and Leadership Studies at University of Victoria, Canada. Kathy Sanford is Professor of Curriculum and Instruction at the University of Victoria, Canada. Kerry Harman is Senior Lecturer at Birkbeck, University of London, UK.

Table of Contents

Notes on Contributors
List of Illustrations
1. Introduction: Opposites, Intersections, Turbans, and Other Imaginative Possibilites, Darlene E. Clover (University of Victoria, Canada), Kathy Sanford (University of Victoria, Canada), Kerry Harman (Birkbeck University, UK) and Sarah Williamson (University of Huddersfield, UK)
Part I: Visualising and the Feminist Imaginary
2. Curating Visibility: The Disobedient Women Exhibition as a Representational Feminist Imaginary of Possibility, Darlene E. Clover (University of Victoria, Canada) and Kathy Sanford (University of Victoria, Canada)
3. Migrant Women Drawing Themselves into their Homes and Communities, Sondra Cuban (Western Washington University, USA)
4. Conservations from Creative Toolboxes: Jourbaneys as Artists, Educators and Curators, Beverly Hayward (Birkbeck College, University of London, UK)
5. The Feminist Aesthetics and Climate Action: The Roscommon Women's Network, Eve Cobain (Irish National Adult Learning Organisation, AONTAS, Ireland) and Leah Dowdall (Irish National Adult Learning Organisation, AONTAS, Ireland)
6. WASTELAND: A Feminist Public Pedagogical Response to Climate Anxiety, Kathy Sanford (University of Victoria, Canada) and Darlene E. Clover (University of Victoria, Canada)
Part II: Storying and the Feminist Imaginary
7. Feminist Fiction-based Research in the Context of War and Military Museums: Fostering Imagination, Engagement and Empathy, Nancy Taber (Brock University, Canada)
8. Dark Realisms: An Auto/biographical Enquiry into Creative Strategies of Queer Resilience, Ivan Kirckgaesser (Germany and Mexico)
9. Bringing Research into Life: An Experience of Feminist Practice with Artists, Laura Formenti (University of Milan, Italy), Silvia Luraschi (University of Milan, Italy) and Gaia Del Negro (University of Milan, Italy)
10. #MeToo and the Feminist Digital Imaginary: Public Pedagogy on Sexual Consent and Violence, Salsabel Almanssori (University of Windsor, Canada)
11. We are Invisible, but we are not a Minority: Co-creating an Alternative Feminist Space and Narrative for Women of Colour through Photography, Suriani Dzulkifli (University of Victoria, Canada)
Part III: Decolonising and the Feminist Imaginary
12. Indigenous Feminist Aesthetic Work as a Cultural Revitalisation: Facilitating Uy'skwuluwun, Dorothea Harris (University of Victoria, Canada)
13. Decolonising Feminist Aesthetics of the Witness Blanket, Catherine Etmanski (Royal Roads University, Canada) and Ha_yalka_ng_a_me Carey Newman (University of Victoria, Canada)
14. Murals as Storied Spaces: An Indigenous Feminist Practice of Hope and Healing, Tracey Murphy (Simon Fraser University, Canada) and Edna Ellsworth (Camosun College, Canada)
Caring and the Feminist Imaginary
15. Creating Moments of Equality when Researching Sensory Ways of Knowing Homecare: Toward an Aesthetics of Care?, Kerry Harman (Birkbeck University, UK)
16. Estrangement Pedagogy in Research-based Theatre about Madness, Lauren Spring (University of Toronto, Canada)
17. Feminist Aesthetics and Mutual Learning in Turbulent Times: The Politics of Listening, Claudia Firth (Ravensbourbane University and Birkbeck College, University of London, UK)
18. On Fostering Feminist Friendships for Resistance and Respite: Love Letter Making, Amber Moore (University of British Columbia, Canada) and Kaye Hare (University of British Columbia, Canada)
References
Index

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