Art Based Approaches for Social Research: Methodological Issues and Debate (Part I)

Tuesday, 8 July 2025: 19:00-20:30
Location: FSE022 (Faculty of Education Sciences (FSE))
RC37 Sociology of Arts (host committee)

Language: English

In the last few years there has been a rising of social research carried out with so called "arts based approaches". The aim of this session is to debate how this methodology is carried out, if and what it takes from sociological qualitative research, and what are the pros and cons of doing social research with this approach, what are the possible expectations and the new opening this approach offers in the field of social empirical research with examples from both research and theory-building.
Session Organizer:
Ilaria RICCIONI, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy
Oral Presentations
The Implementation of Arts-Based Methods in Participatory Approaches: Conflicts Versus Engagement
Seran DEMIRAL, Turkey
The Uncomfortable ‘Aesthetic Turn’: Fracturing Art-Based Sociology in Neoliberal Academia
Camille FREEMAN, The University of Queensland, Australia; Zhaoxi ZHENG, University of New South Wales, Australia
Performing Arts Laboratory As a Social Research Practice. Issues and Problems
Michele GRANZOTTO, University of Naples "Federico II", Italy
Literary Writing and Design of Experience As a Research Device in Social Science
Monika Sylwia SALEJ, University of the Basque Country UPV/EHU, Spain
The Space of Sound in Ethnography. Sound, Im/Mobility and Solidarity Along the Western Balkan Route
Riccardo SACCO, Italy
Arts and Spirituality: Methodological Reflections from a Local Enquiry on Interreligious Dialogue
Maddalena COLOMBO, Italy
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