Holle et al., ‘Conditions for Transformative Engaged Scholarship in Co-creation with Queer Refugees’, 2024

Holle, F., Ponzoni, E., Ghorashi, H. Conditions for Transformative Engaged Scholarship in Co-creation with Queer Refugees. In: Regeer, B.J., Klaassen, P., Broerse, J.E.W. (eds) Transdisciplinarity for Transformation. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham, 2024

Abstract

This chapter focuses on conditions for co-creative research with regard to experiences and diverse forms of knowledge that are silenced by stigmatizing, negative labelling and (subtle) kinds of exclusion. We reflect on three core conditions that emerged in LIMBO, a creative research collaboration between queer refugee community organizers and artists, the Amsterdam art institute Framer Framed and the Refugee Academy (expertise lab based at the Institute for Societal Resilience at VU Amsterdam). The research exemplifies what we mean by transformative academic engagement, as it goes beyond mere description and documentation and recognizes agency and creativity, while following the perspectives of marginalized communities as leaders in the process. The three pivotal conditions that emerged in the context of this co-creative research as underpinning the transformative process are creativity, holding space and the dynamic interplay of de/recentring.