Doing Creative Work
from Your Political Body


A Process and Guide for Practice-led Research
by Myriam D. Diatta

INDEX


An index of terms, people, and references designed to help readers locate key concepts, frameworks, and contexts discussed throughout.

A

academia, 4, 119, 161, 262, 287, 418
accountability, 9, 27, 51‑54, 58‑59, 246,293, 415, 418
acknowledgment, 4, 1‑3, 12, 16, 37, 51‑52. Also see Extended Acknowledgment
anti-Blackness, 18, 72‑73, 106‑107, 177, 231
anti-disciplinary, 38‑40
author, 15, 47, 61, 175, 192, 209, 215, 242, 245, 272, 331‑332
assessment, 58, 156
autoethnography, 51, 54‑55, 58‑59, 63, 175, 184‑185, 415, 417. Also see critical autoethnography  

B
between theory and practice, 7, 9‑10, 14, 26‑27, 29‑30, 175, 186, 286, 290, 301, 303, 306, 392, 395‑396, 398‑400, 402; In Interlude chapter, 76‑77, 79, 88‑89, 91, 101‑102, 104, 115, 118, 128‑129, 131, 137‑140, 143, 145, 147, 155, 157, 166‑167
Black American, 3, 19, 36, 47, 97, 176, 231, 294
Black critical thought, 61
Black feminism, 31, 46‑47, 55, 72, 110‑111, 285, 416-418, 420
Blackness, 18‑19, 21, 37‑38, 47, 55, 68, 71‑73, 106‑107, 110, 176‑177, 180, 208, 231‑232, 256, 269, 283, 416, 419
body. See body scanning; embodied; living bodies of thought; political body
body scanning, 197, 301, 340, 422
Boylorn, Robin M., 51‑52, 54‑56, 58, 178,185, 256‑257, 282, 284, 289, 294, 415

C
calibrate, 61, 71, 367, 377, 392
citation, 4, 14, 16, 31, 37-38, 53, 108, 152, 175, 188, 208–210, 231, 272, 357
co-author, 4, 174–175, 210, 215, 222, 242–245
Collier, Zakiya, 2, 77, 104, 109–110, 112
commitments. See political commitments
community, 3, 7, 17, 20, 53, 79, 84, 86, 93, 95, 100–102, 104–106, 111, 113, 117, 148, 152, 154, 156, 191, 204, 212, 225, 252, 289–290, 302
contribution, 2, 8, 16–17, 40, 59, 66, 79, 111, 116, 182, 189–190, 246, 282, 414
creative practice, 9, 12–16, 30–38, 40, 48–49, 59–60, 67, 75, 113, 173, 186, 219, 282, 292, 301–304, 322, 333
creative practitioner, 8, 15, 17, 21, 35–36, 39, 48–49, 59–60, 66, 75, 77, 108, 187, 279, 292–293, 302, 400
creative process, 56
creative work, 2–3, 8–9, 11–13, 15, 17, 34, 38, 278, 302, 304
critical autoethnography, 55, 63, 175, 184, 415, 419–420. Also see autoethnography
critical creative practice, 12, 59–60, 67, 291–292, 301, 304
critical theory, 2, 37, 40, 61, 63, 66–67, 74, 180–181, 220, 233, 270, 281, 286–287, 329–333, 337, 375, 417, 286–289, 305–307, 312, 337–338, 340, 348, 411  

D
design, 11, 18, 35–36, 49, 150, 157, 173–175, 181, 203–204, 215–216, 239, 250–251, 291, 302, 417–418
discipline, 30, 35, 37–38, 40, 43, 62, 95, 161, 181, 210, 282, 291
disciplinary, 18, 38–40, 52, 66, 173, 176, 181, 282
doing theory, 2, 4, 42–44, 48, 60–69, 71, 173, 178, 183, 188, 191, 219, 263, 280
doing theory, thinking practice, 42, 62, 66, 68, 71, 173, 191, 280, 288, 305, 307, 312, 337–338, 348, 411
double consciousness, 176–178, 180, 220, 222, 283. Also see Du Bois, W. E. B.
Dounia, Linda, 2, 77, 157
Du Bois, W. E. B., 19, 176–177, 185, 294, 417. Also see Double consciousness
Dyson, Torkwase, 52, 56–58, 73, 282, 415, 417–418

E
embodied, embodiment, 43, 48, 61, 69, 159, 215–216, 280. Also see firsthand ways of knowing
Embuscado, Rain, 2, 77, 131, 133
epistemology, 16, 46–47, 55. Also see ways of knowing
evaluation, 58, 280, 292
everyday and everyday ways of knowing, 34, 44, 48, 55, 180, 201, 225, 262, 270, 286, 417. Also see ways of knowing
Extended Acknowledgment, 16, 51. Also see acknowledgment

F
firsthand ways of knowing, 7, 19, 43, 46, 61, 75, 178, 184, 187, 318. Also see embodied; ways of knowing
fragmentation, 10–11, 73–74, 208, 232, 245–246, 283, 285, 290, 294, 303, 383, 391
framework, 9, 17, 43, 58, 60–61, 66–67, 70, 94, 192, 204, 219, 279–280, 282, 300, 305–306

G
Garina, Daria, 51–54, 58, 282, 418
gazes, 9, 15, 34, 44, 54, 70, 78, 177–178, 185, 214, 226–228, 256, 269, 284, 295
guide, 295, 301–307, 316, 375

H
Hall, Stuart, 62, 64–67, 208, 303, 307

I
illegibility, 14, 57, 191, 208, 234, 283–285, 287, 289–290
immateriality, 37, 73–74
incoherence, 7, 11, 45, 74, 285, 303
Indigenous, 46, 160, 209, 231, 274
Innocent, Jelsen Lee, 2, 77, 91, 94, 99, 102–103
interiority, 18–19, 33–34, 68–70, 74, 178
interior structure and Interior Structure of the Artifact, 34, 69–70, 178, 368

J
Jones, Stacy Holman, 62‐64, 66, 184, 415, 419

K
Khan, Baseera, 2, 77, 118, 126
knowing through making, 181‐183, 187, 189‐190, 419
knowledge and knowing, 3, 10, 12, 17, 31, 38, 40, 61, 133, 181‐183, 187, 189‐190, 292, 419, 420
knowledge production, 10, 31, 38‐40, 56, 133, 262
Kwon, Heesoo, 2, 77, 79, 82, 84, 88

L
lateral approach, 70, 216, 280‐282, 289
liberation, 18, 52, 56‐59, 111, 122, 270
lineage, 8, 14‐15, 17, 35, 37, 46, 62, 64‐66, 293
Liu, Fei, 2, 147‐148, 151, 155
living bodies of thought, 62‐63, 66, 419  

M
making, 11, 36, 67‐74, 86, 144, 153, 174‐175, 179, 181‐183, 186, 189, 193, 219, 243, 270
making and unmaking, 68‐69, 73, 183, 420
making real, 72
material record, 70, 183, 188, 301, 356, 368
materiality, 71, 73‐74, 175, 215‐216, 243, 417. Also see immateriality
Materializing, 70, 183, 304, 353, 356‐359, 362, 364, 382‐383, 389, 391
matters of Blackness, 71-74
maturity, 9, 17, 48‐49, 293, 303, 307
mediums, 14, 50, 55, 58, 60, 87, 89, 132, 134, 149, 173‐175, 188, 197, 225, 303‐304, 309, 321‐325, 331, 337‐338, 355, 358‐360, 401, 417
methodology, 16‐17, 20. Also see framework
methods, 5, 11, 14‐15, 18, 20, 30, 34, 38, 52, 65, 76, 89, 98, 172, 174, 178, 181‐187, 191‐194, 198, 218‐220, 222, 279‐280, 292‐294, 306
model making. See Reflexive Model Making
multiplicity, 47, 65, 227, 283‐285

O
opacity, 96, 285, 373, 411
oppression, 32, 34, 294

P
paths, 256, 286, 289, 291, 294
parallel practice, 5, 49‐52, 62, 67, 173‐175, 280, 282, 304‐305, 337, 411
performance, 59, 62‐64, 66, 420
periphery, 14, 19, 239, 256‐257, 263, 283‐285, 290, 365
political commitments, 49, 60, 114, 288‐289, 291
politicized direction and political direction, 173, 175, 282, 337‐338, 411
Pollock, Della, 43, 62‐67, 282, 420
positionality, 15, 180, 204, 210, 213, 236, 245, 294
Practice-led Research, 2‐3, 5, 13, 15‐16, 30, 175, 279, 292, 295, 407, 420

Q
queerness and queer theory, 10, 21, 44‐47, 61‐63, 122, 225, 227, 269, 294‐295, 314, 329, 418‐419
quiet, 34, 127, 142, 177, 206, 215, 232, 242, 263, 269, 283‐285, 287, 289‐290, 420
  R
racialization, 7, 15, 40, 71, 292
refusal, 39, 44, 55, 57‐58, 78, 138, 319
reflection, 60, 77, 131, 133, 181‐183, 204, 216, 238, 383, 391
Reflexive Writing, 5, 178‐181, 183, 186, 188, 190‐193, 219‐223, 227‐228, 233, 245, 265, 270, 283, 285, 288
Reflexive Model Making, 5, 178, 180, 183, 186, 188‐189, 191‐193, 219‐222, 247, 270, 288
reflexivity, 50, 59‐60, 181‐183, 185‐191, 288
resistance, 34, 44, 46, 97, 178, 201‐202, 225, 283, 420

S
safety, 35, 127, 156, 178, 212, 320, 343
sensibilities, 11, 35, 61, 181, 215‐216, 242‐245, 279, 282, 417
shift, 15, 19, 65, 76, 91‐93, 96, 132, 147, 156, 180, 212, 233, 250, 291
social life, 33‐34, 36‐37, 47, 55, 62‐66, 70‐71, 74, 184‐185, 310
subversive, 8, 27, 39, 45, 143, 184, 262, 414
systems, 7, 31, 34, 46, 56‐57, 78, 103, 134, 204, 207, 250, 252, 284, 288, 294, 417

T
tacit knowledge and tacit ways of knowing, 7, 11, 15, 30, 61, 75, 181, 197, 239, 266
temporality, 12, 66, 102, 129, 167, 234, 283
thinking form, 62, 67, 71, 173, 178, 183, 188,
191, 219
tools, 18, 31, 51, 95, 104, 130, 132, 158, 175, 181, 201‐202, 225, 322
transdisciplinary design, 18, 181
translation, 77, 157, 167

U
universities, 31‐32, 39, 262, 319, 416‐420
unmaking, 68‐69, 73, 183, 420

 V
values, 51, 53, 262, 302
violence, 31, 37, 71‐73
vulnerability, 7, 20, 113, 121, 161, 184, 201, 224, 238, 284, 307

W
Wane, AK, 2, 77, 140
ways of knowing, 7, 19, 34, 38, 45‐46, 48, 104, 187, 239, 251, 280, 293‐295
writing. See autoethnography; Reflexive Writing











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