Description: A comprehensive conceptual and scholarly overview of a/r/tography.
A/r/tography is an interdisciplinary art practice that blends visual, narrative, performance, and other modes of inquiry with qualitative research methods such as ethnography and autobiography. This collection is designed to provoke conceptual conversations between early a/r/tographic publications and the contemporary scholarship of a/r/tographers publishing and producing today. In doing so, it advances concepts that have permeated a/r/tographic literature to date, while also making key historical works readily available.Brief description: Anita Sinner is professor of art education at the University of British Columbia, Canada. She works extensively with stories as pedagogic pivots, with emphasis on creative geographies in education.
Review Quotes:
"A/r/tography is an essential read for arts researchers. It spans the ideas of both established and emergent scholars. As a current Ph.D. student, it was an enjoyable experience to read this new edition. The book's structure is organized into distinct parts that encompass diverse research ideas and methods - a 'sympoiesis' of ethical, relational and material concepts. It delves into the authors lived experiences, encompassing, human, non-human and more than human assemblages. It proposes new methodologies, frameworks and possibilities for future research practices, highlighting new ways of conducting arts-based research that foreground contemporary pedagogical praxis. This book embodies Irwin's non-hierarchical, rhizomatic inclusiveness through including texts that speak to critical and caring ways in which a/r/tography can promote a deeper understanding of our relational existence through 'living inquiry' to foster stewardship of our global ecologies."
-- "Kathryn Grushka, International Journal of Education Through Art"