In what ways can performance be mobilized to resist? This is the
question that the present volume explores from within the context of
qualitative research. From an arts-based approach, authors suggest
methods on how artistic practice resists. The volume addresses how
critical performance autoethnography might retain its ethical and
democratic potential without falling into dogmatism or hegemony. This
vision for democracy can even be accomplished through improvised,
process-centered pieces that weave together thoughts from several key
scholars, all to give us a critical perspective on how performative
autoethnography is paradigmatically situated. The performance texts
collected here question and resist, showing how the experience of
art-making can move us through political and public spaces with
liberatory potential, challenging social and ideological hegemonies and
to generate social movements. Imaginative arts-based practices allow us
access to emotional and embodied phenomena that remain otherwise
foreclosed by traditional forms of inquiry. From poetics to public
performances, subversive interventions, and more, these chapters bring a
radical performative discourse to the fore. In so doing, the chapters
work to create a framework for just performance, showing us how we might
live performance as resistance.