{"product_id":"practicing-the-social-9781771127462","title":"Practicing the Social","description":"\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003ePracticing the Social: Entanglements of Art and Social\nJustice\u003c\/i\u003e brings together artists, activists, and scholars who use creative practice\nto reimagine how we live and build more just worlds. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eThe collection centers disability, Deaf, Mad, neurodivergent,\nIndigenous, Black, Brown, queer, fat, and aging arts and cultures, highlighting\ncreative practices that reconfigure the social from the ground up. Across five sections—Designing,\nEnacting, Troubling, Analyzing, and Transforming the Social—contributors examine\nhow art cultivates access justice, deepens relationality, unsettles dominant narratives,\nand seeds alternative futures. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eSpanning dance, feasting,\nstorytelling, video art, curatorial and archival activism, youth and community arts,\ncreative pedagogies and digital worldmaking, the chapters demonstrate how creative\nacts intervene in colonial, white supremacist, ableist, and neoliberal systems,\nwhile opening pathways for connection, coalition, and collective flourishing. In\ndialogue with feminist, decolonial, and disability‑led traditions, the project is\naccompanied by an accessible digital archive that extends these conversations through\ncurated multimedia offerings. Together, contributors ask: What does activist art\ndo? Who is it for? How do access, power, and place expand what becomes possible\nin artful justice desiring work? \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eThe book demonstrates\nhow creative practices can generate “ripples” of change, small, relational gestures\nthat accumulate into counter-hegemonic possibilities. Working at the intersection\nof art and justice, \u003ci\u003ePracticing the Social\u003c\/i\u003e offers artists, educators, organizers,\nlibrarians, and researchers vital methods and imaginaries for reconfiguring the\nsocial in accessible and life‑affirming ways. It invites readers into everyday acts\nof worldmaking and into artistic interventions as catalysts for ushering in more\njust, difference‑embracing futures. \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Carla Rice","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48310820962555,"sku":"9781771127462","price":95.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0779\/3917\/9771\/files\/unnamed_9a80a9bb-b914-4b01-bc57-86ead6778b58.jpg?v=1779305404","url":"https:\/\/indiepubs.com\/products\/practicing-the-social-9781771127462","provider":"IndiePubs","version":"1.0","type":"link"}