Outlines. Critical Practice Studies https://tidsskrift.dk/outlines Critical Practice studies. Inter- and transdisciplinary journal for critical studies of practices in socio-cultural and historical context. en-US <p>From issue no. 1 2022 and onward, the journal uses the CC Attribution-NonCommercial- Share Alike 4.0 license <a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/">(https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/</a>) The authors retain the copyright to their articles.</p> <p>The articles published in the previous 37 issues (From Vol. 1, no. 1, 1999 to Vol. 22, No. 1, 2021, are published according to Danish Copyright legislation. This implies that readers can download, read, and link to the articles, but they cannot republish these articles. The journal retain the copyright of these articles. Authors can upload them in their institutional repositories as a part of a green open access policy.</p> evianna@lagcc.cuny.edu (Eduardo Vianna) vija@kb.dk (Vibeke Jartoft) Fri, 19 Jul 2024 19:50:11 +0200 OJS 3.3.0.13 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 60 How poetry and song can grapple with the dialectics of crisis and agency, and become tools for transformative research https://tidsskrift.dk/outlines/article/view/141286 <p><em> <span class="fontstyle0">Activist scholarship inspired by a cultural-historical tradition often seeks to foster agency with people facing crisis. The aim is to develop new understandings and bases for action that can help people break away from the status quo and change what is possible. Cultural-historical theory understands crisis and agency dialectically, linking both to individual and social transformation. Dialectic understandings of crisis foreground breakdown and renewal. Dialectic understandings of agency foreground personal contributions with social consequence and contingency. I argue that these understandings are crucial as a point of departure in research where we stand alongside others on grappling with matters of equity and justice. However, establishing these as a shared basis for resisting, reimaging and rebelliously acting is not straightforward and requires countering dominant neoliberal framings. Arts-based forms have significant potential to enable precisely such disruptive thinking. The line ‘Dance on the shark’s wing’, opens a poem by Nikos Kavadias, bluring the lines between the real and the imagined, the fearful and the possible. ‘No One Is Alone’, a song from Sondheim’s ‘Into the Woods’, tells a story of how individual interest is overcome through collective wisdom and consequential action. These examples are discussed as potential transformative tools that could provoke and support collective radical imagination based on coherent understandings of individual agentic contributions to collective struggles. An argument is presented to embrace arts genres as means to destabilise engrained ways of thinking about crisis and agency, thus strengthening collaborative efforts in activist research</span> </em></p> Nick Hopwood Copyright (c) 2024 Nick Hopwood https://tidsskrift.dk/outlines/article/view/141286 Fri, 19 Jul 2024 00:00:00 +0200