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ABSTRACT
As artist and social researchers working in health research, we work ‘against the grain’ in marginalised spaces to resist the marketisation of knowledge and related neoliberal practices. Our cross-disciplinary alliance, between theatre / performance studies and critical health science, is premised on engaging the humanities, arts, and social sciences to resist the subversion of both critical qualitative research and arts-based inquiries, and to interrogate structural inequalities that foster human injustices. Here we offer reflections on tensions we experienced with our interdisciplinary collaborations, how these tensions exposed limitations of our own disciplines/fields, and also enhanced the fruitfulness of our partnership.
Acknowledgements
A warm thanks to Dr Alisa Grigorovich for her comments and suggestions on an earlier draft of this article.
Disclosure statement
No potential conflict of interest was reported by the authors.
Notes on contributors
Dr Julia Gray is a playwright, theatre director and artist-researcher. Focusing on embodied difference, her work explores art and performance making as forms of cultural production, social critique and methods of inquiry. She is the editor of ‘ReView: an anthology of plays committed to social justice’ (Sense Publishers).
Dr Pia Kontos is a Senior Scientist at Toronto Rehabilitation Institute-University Health Network, and Associate Professor in the Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto. She draws on multiple disciplines (e.g. sociology, philosophy, drama) to challenge assumptions and envision new possibilities for caring and relating in the context of dementia.