Index
Abstract/Abstraction
16, 20, 36, 57–61, 63, 64, 77, 78, 83, 159, 176, 190, 213
Figures
149
Methodology
68
Social myths and stories
39, 145
Academic research
47, 150, 157, 158, 188, 199, 200, 202, 203, 206, 223, 232
disciplinary boundaries
knowledge
Academic theology
9, 54, 60, 66, 80, 206
As extractive/co-opting
10, 44, 51, 54, 60, 66, 80, 141, 142, 197, 205
Citational practices
19
Practice of sharing lived experiences
1, 23, 44, 51, 141
Voice metaphors
33–34
Activist/Activism
1, 5, 6, 49, 93, 145, 150, 157, 161, 167, 176, 197, 231
Art-activism
21, 132, 146–156, 230
Dwelling space activism
149, 160, 177, 224
Emphasis on voice
200
Ethics
221
Image of activist community
159
Material and discursive
131
Naming yourself as an activist
49–50, 191
Responsive to changes
220, 223
Spiritual activism
71, 176, 224
Aesthetic
63, 70, 78, 142, 196, 208, 221, 230
Agency
17, 70, 74, 166, 175
Moral agency
38, 46
Voice and
35, 70, 200
Ahmed, Sara
19, 36, 84
Alterity
79, 149, 172, 182, 186
‘other/the other’
Particularity and
50, 82–86, 232
As relational
85
Ambivalence
51, 52, 61, 62, 75, 159, 173, 183, 184, 191, 212, 213
‘passionate ambivalence’
Anzaldúa, Gloria
19, 23, 31, 53, 65n.63, 68–72, 75, 78, 97, 159, 176, 214, 215, 224, 225
Art
3, 19, 20, 30, 70, 78, 80, 129, 159, 168, 170, 176, 222, 230
creative arts-based research methods
art-activism
creative/creativity
Asylum
refuge/refugee
Austerity
2, 10, 11, 13–16, 20, 21, 23, 39, 41, 130–161, 166, 168, 169, 173, 178, 192, 204, 217, 231
food poverty and foodbanks
housing and homelessness
welfare cuts and assessments
‘Anti-welfare commonsense’
138
Brown envelope
124–125, 153–154
Disability Assessments
3, 108, 132–135, 141, 146, 174, 220
Family cap and rape clause
135–138, 167
Sanctions
10, 29, 50, 92, 108, 130, 146, 148
‘Scroungers’
14, 38, 49, 141, 148, 175, 189
Betcher, Sharon
142, 157, 214
Body/Bodies
149, 173–176, 178, 181, 186, 187, 192, 194, 213
disability
pain
As complex/contradictory
23, 69–71, 133–135, 152, 159, 173–176
As crossroads
69
As social and material
39–41, 53, 67, 71, 78, 145, 176, 194
Bodily experience
59, 213
Dehistoricized
6
Difference
84
Embodied knowledge/bodies and knowledge
56–60, 189
Embodied research
42
Jesus’ body
175
Reflexivity and
212–218
Writing the body
69–72
Caputo, John
54n.5, 65n.63, 83n.157, 195
de Certeau, Michel
18, 19, 20, 65–66, 168, 178–184, 185, 186, 188
Chopp, Rebbecca
18, 19, 21, 31–32, 168–173, 186
Collaboration/Collaborative
17, 22, 36–38, 82, 85, 130, 157, 218, 224, 225, 226, 231, 232
community
relationality
Addressing others as potential collaborators
85, 130, 143, 146, 155, 156, 196, 233
Academic/activist practice
3, 21, 150, 167, 170, 206, 130
Community in Christian theology
198–199
Face-to-face sharing and
192-196
In creative arts
89, 204, 205
In reflexivity
211
Planning group
13, 89, 92–93, 118, 122, 140, 146, 150, 159, 167, 198, 199, 206, 207, 220, 223, 232
Theological and political practice
196–203
With PTC
2, 11, 13, 21, 89–129, 130, 150–156, 192
Writing/making
37, 108, 113, 121, 228
Colonial/colonisation
31, 33, 35, 44, 53–57, 63, 68, 70, 73, 74, 82, 131, 142, 144, 182, 197, 199, 202n.18
postcolonial
White theology and
56
Community
36–38, 44, 48, 191, 218, 219, 221, 223, 225
collaboration/collaborative
Community activism
145
Community arts
204, 206
Community organising
9, 15–16
Differences and complexities within
22–23, 35, 53, 62–64, 160, 190
Epistemic community
36
Face-to-face
195
Images of community campaigning
149, 157, 159
Immersion in challenges understandings
165
Grassroots communities
45, 46–47, 51, 60, 66, 142, 157, 168, 170, 179, 196
Otherness of
82
Practical theology as community of practice
34, 55, 213, 227
Shaped by participation in
175–176, 218
Cotidiano/Lo Cotidiano
20, 45–48, 66, 179, 187
‘everyday’
Creative/Creativity
68, 75, 157, 168, 170, 172, 173, 176, 179, 196, 202, 218, 219, 228
Connecting Stories
13, 89, 10, 110, 113, 126, 129, 159, 219, 221
Creative arts-based research
13, 17, 21, 22, 38, 192, 202, 203–209, 210, 221, 222
Creative interventions
2, 21, 130, 146–160, 168, 173, 175, 176, 178, 187, 218
Creative method
3
In sharing lived experiences
20, 27, 31, 42–51, 190, 230, 231, 232
Making oneself
70–71
Poetics
18, 66, 67, 81, 177
Transforming
71, 159
Credible/credibility
8, 20, 41, 55, 80, 131, 139, 145, 152, 157, 161, 169, 170, 188
disbelief
valid/validity
Crow, Liz
19, 21, 130, 134, 135, 146–149, 157, 158, 159, 160, 177, 204, 216–217, 224
Cultures of judgement and disbelief
21, 130–161, 167, 168, 177, 181, 182, 188, 191, 217, 231
Interventions into
187, 193–194, 218, 226, 189
Material and discursive
173, 192, 196
Putting cultures of judgement on trial
168–173
Theology as
168–173, 208, 186
Difference
22, 38, 59, 62, 83, 84, 85, 170, 171, 173, 181, 201
Disability
2, 13, 13n.37, 27, 37, 39, 41, 42, 43, 50, 53, 56, 79, 84, 93, 94, 100, 131, 140, 145, 146, 148, 149, 151, 152, 157, 158, 159, 161, 169, 173, 175, 189, 193, 195, 201, 204, 209, 231
Chronic illness and pain
42, 70, 72, 95–97, 107, 110, 150, 153, 192, 201, 212–218
Disability assessments
3, 100, 108, 132–135, 141, 142, 143, 174, 220
Disbelief
21, 29, 95
doubt
credible/credibility
cultures of judgement and disbelief
Disciplinary norms and boundaries
19–20, 52, 53–57, 66, 69, 86, 209, 210, 211, 230
Doubt
6, 41, 137
disbelief
Encounter/Encountering
1, 116, 177, 187, 232
Aesthetic text as a site of
21
Disruptive encounters
192–227
Encounter as judgement
142
Finite
224
Labyrinth of encounters
89
One-off encounters
22
Particularity and alterity in
20, 52, 53, 82–85, 86, 186
With the other/otherness
53–54, 68, 83, 113, 149, 161, 225–226
Epistemology
20, 22, 36, 45, 47, 57, 65, 77, 78, 184
Epistemic community
36
Epistemic practice
55
Epistemic violence
63, 64, 198
Standpoint epistemology
7, 77, 78
Essentialism
45, 77, 79, 182
Ethnography
21, 35, 62, 79, 89, 221
Meta-ethnographic method
38
Everyday
2, 13, 21, 82, 86, 129, 174, 196, 198, 215, 220, 225, 226, 232
cotidiano/lo cotidiano
Creativity
142
De Certeau and
65–67, 70, 72, 78, 178–184
Divine/sacred in
58, 70, 186, 227
Everydayness
188–190
Experiences of poverty
92–93, 150–151, 159, 220
Knowledge/meaning-making
143, 157, 198, 202
Marvels in the
18, 67, 93, 113, 191
Material elements
153, 174, 186
Transformations in
21, 165–191, 232
Extractive practices
48, 231
Face-to-face
22, 83n.157, 140, 192–196, 226
Feminist/feminism
19, 35, 73, 85, 86, 171, 198, 199, 211, 230
Feminist movements
5
Feminist practical theology
8, 10, 18, 19, 55, 57, 58
Feminist retellings
74
Feminist standpoint theory
77–78
Feminist theology
2, 9, 16, 17, 20, 27, 44, 65, 85, 86, 168, 170, 172, 201
Feminist theory
7
Fragmented and relational selves
22, 23, 35, 80, 201
Personal is political
42
Food poverty and foodbanks
2, 15, 21, 39, 46–47, 105, 122–123, 145, 152, 153, 160, 166, 173, 190, 192, 230
‘austerity’
Forrester, Duncan
9, 12, 80, 81
Fragile/fragility
69, 82, 108, 149, 159, 181, 186, 218–227, 232
Consent as
220
Creative interventions
187
Creative pieces
112, 113
Sharing lived experiences
3, 22, 160, 192, 225, 226
Sharing is fragile
225
Stories as
90, 167
Fragments/Fragmentation
23, 151, 152, 171, 180, 186, 200, 220, 232
Bodies as
174
In practical theology
17, 66, 80–82, 86
Lived experiences as
8, 20, 30–33, 51, 65, 68
Knowledge as
52
Poetic attention to
158
Selves as
22, 35, 225
Writing/making with
75, 89, 118, 144, 146, 158, 184, 212
Goto, Courtney
18, 19, 34, 53, 55, 59, 62–64, 198, 200n.14, 202, 208, 211
Graham, Elaine
10, 17, 59, 77, 199
Grenfell Tower
143–146, 166
Hegemony/hegemonic
57, 60, 61, 188–189
Hope
23, 32, 47, 71, 90, 92, 100, 116, 121, 123, 144, 156, 159, 167, 176, 184, 188, 189, 190
Housing and homelessness
2, 9, 21, 29, 43, 50, 92, 108, 132, 140, 144, 145, 152, 153, 154, 160, 173, 204, 230
‘austerity’
Imagination/imaginative
47, 70, 78, 79, 144, 149, 173, 176, 186, 208, 214, 224, 230, 231
Fantastic hegemonic imagination
188–189
Historical imagination
189–190
Incarnation/incarnational
15, 40, 173–177
Inequality
1, 2, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 21, 45, 46, 52, 59, 122, 141, 142, 146, 156, 157, 159, 188, 194, 195, 196, 220, 226, 231, 232
poverty
Instrumentalising
43, 181
Intervention/Interventions
21, 42, 71, 146, 168, 171, 173, 179, 182, 186, 187, 199, 213, 218, 226
Creative interventions
2, 21, 130, 146–160, 168, 218
Cultural intervention
170, 173
Performative interventions
21, 173–178
Isasi-Dı́az, Ada Marı́a
19, 20, 38, 45–48, 66, 151, 179, 187, 197, 202
Judgement
2, 4, 5, 7, 21, 38, 41, 42, 51, 61, 80, 173, 189, 196, 212, 214, 233
cultures of judgement and disbelief
Just/Justice
1, 5, 6, 22, 47, 57, 65, 78, 105, 108, 116, 122, 123, 145, 188, 189, 191, 194, 213, 224, 232, 233
Knowledge/Knowing
52, 60, 81, 83, 84, 85, 93, 189, 194, 220, 225, 230, 232
epistemology
Broad highways of
66, 76
Claims to know others/the other
1, 4, 34, 64, 83, 195, 201, 203, 218, 225
Creative arts and
205–208
Embodied knowledge/knowing
13, 16, 47, 143, 155
Finding what is already known
76, 86
Genre and
73
Insider knowledge
199
Knowledge-making/knowledge production
8, 18, 36, 51, 52, 53–57, 60, 80, 85, 150, 202, 211, 230
Of grassroots communities
45–48, 196, 198, 202
Multiple ways of knowing
203, 204, 206, 221
Not-knowing
20, 30–33, 51, 65, 84, 93, 103, 107, 115, 150, 158, 190, 200, 212, 221
Power and knowledge
10, 16, 202, 212
Reflexivity
210–212
Refusing complete knowledge
22, 23, 158, 180, 192, 195
Relationality
77–80, 206
Validity of
22, 81, 231
Who is knowing
20, 36, 51, 231
Kwok Pui-lan
44, 45, 78, 80, 189–190
Liberation Theology
31, 60, 61
Levinas, Emmanuel
53n.2, 54n.5, 83, 84, 85, 195, 225
Margins
78–79, 182
Material/Materiality
22, 50, 53, 64, 73, 130, 157, 169, 218, 231
Creative pieces
113, 128, 131, 147, 149, 150, 153, 154, 160, 204, 205, 229
Epistemic conditions
36, 45, 59–61, 78
Exclusion of materiality
59, 60n.35
Inequality/austerity as discursive and
2, 11, 15, 16, 131, 192
Material resources
2, 21, 130
Power relations as
21
Practices of sharing lived experiences as
22, 36, 50, 196, 200
Social co-constituting material
39–41, 52, 67–68, 71–72, 74, 143–146, 156–157, 172–178, 186–191
Methods/research methods
3, 12, 17, 18, 34, 38, 48, 62, 64, 68, 186
Collaborative/participative
12, 48, 196–203
Creative arts-based
17, 155, 203–209, 210, 232
Research journal
42, 44, 89, 114
Mujerista theology
2, 9, 16, 19, 20, 27, 38, 44, 65, 95, 230
Isasi-Dı́az, Ada Marı́a
Narrative
32, 122, 146, 151, 171, 204, 209, 210, 212, 213, 216, 219, 224
Austerity narratives
133, 158, 217
Christian narrative
81
Cultural/social narratives
4, 47, 73–75, 148, 157
Figures
147, 149, 157, 158, 160
For telling one’s story
41
Grand narratives
80
Linearity
65
Lived experience narratives
5, 6, 34, 45, 136, 139, 169
Narrative theology
17
Structuring
75
Victimhood
140
Norms/Normativity
59, 146, 175, 197, 212, 213, 225
Disciplinary norms in theology
17, 202, 209, 210
Social norms
40, 41, 173, 175, 176, 193
Other/the Other
6, 34, 44, 52–54, 63–64, 66, 79, 113, 142, 149, 161, 173, 180, 187, 194, 224–226
Levinas
Rivera
De Certeau
180–184
Knowledge of others
1, 21, 34, 36, 192, 201, 210, 211, 218, 221
Myth of common otherness
182
Orientation to otherness
68, 212
Particularity and alterity
82–85, 186
Responsiveness to others
20, 86, 195, 232
Speaking on behalf of
34–35
Oyeyemi, Helen
19, 53, 68, 72–75, 81, 215
Pain
4, 6, 18, 23, 42, 52, 53, 77, 110, 113, 159, 160, 161, 167, 176, 194, 196
disability
body/bodies
Chronic illness and
70–72, 96–97, 110, 121, 133–135, 192, 212–218
Participation
4, 9, 12, 30, 43, 48, 60, 77, 121, 160, 170, 173, 174, 190, 192, 197–203, 205, 218, 225
collaboration
Participative Action Research (PAR)
12, 197, 199
Passionate Ambivalence
20, 52–86, 168, 186, 190–191, 226–227, 230, 232
Performativity/performative
15, 21, 40–41, 67, 77, 159, 171, 173–178, 205, 210, 211, 224
Poetics
8, 17, 18, 21, 31, 52, 53, 64–76, 81, 167, 158, 168–184, 187, 208, 212, 215, 222, 232, 233
Metaphoric construction
67
Theopoetics
18, 65n.63
Postcolonial
2, 16, 17, 19, 20, 22, 23, 27, 33, 35, 44, 54, 55, 60, 65, 73, 78, 79, 80, 85, 86, 230
colonial/colonisation
Poverty
2, 9, 10, 11–16, 21, 38, 39, 43, 46, 53, 89–129, 131, 137, 143, 145, 150, 152, 154, 158, 160, 161, 166, 167, 175, 192, 220, 223, 231
austerity
food poverty and foodbanks
housing and homelessness
inequality
Deserving/undeserving poor
13, 41, 140, 143–146, 148, 157, 161, 176, 204
Labels and categories
43, 93, 152, 193, 195, 231
Social myths and stigma
39, 41, 49, 140–141, 157
‘The poor’ in theological discourse
59–62, 82
Poverty Truth Commission (PTC)
2–3, 19, 20–23, 165, 192–196, 202, 219, 220, 228, 229, 231
Addressing cultures of judgement and disbelief
130–131, 134, 138, 140, 141, 159–160
Collaborating organisations
27
Connecting Stories
89–129, 146, 150–156, 199, 200, 206, 222–224
Difficulties of telling and listening
28–30
Focus on austerity
14
History
11–13
Interpretative capacities
48–51
Language of ‘story’
28
Name change
223
Power dynamics
42–44
Reflecting on change
167, 191
Value of relationships
36–39
Power
6, 7, 16, 33–36, 47, 49, 69, 73, 79, 143, 168–170, 178–180, 184
Disrupting
1, 3, 192
Hierarchies of power
39
In research
8, 36
Knowledge and
10, 16, 52–56, 59, 63
People in positions of power
1, 2, 3, 9, 10, 43, 46, 47, 51, 75, 94, 141, 143, 150, 157, 182, 188
Power dynamics
6, 10, 16, 27, 42, 48, 51, 74, 76, 77, 80, 84, 86, 138, 183, 193–203, 231
Power relations
7, 10, 16, 20–22, 68, 143, 218
Power of transfiguration
172
Power to judge
142
Reflexivity and
209–218
Shift in power
43
Transformative
175
Unequal
20, 22
Public
2, 5–10, 11, 14, 21, 30, 33–34, 38, 39, 41, 50, 97, 130, 131, 134, 137, 140, 150, 215, 221, 228, 229
testimonial spaces
Grenfell public inquiry
143, 146
Lying down in public
216–217
Members of the public
29, 147, 148, 157, 159
Public consciousness
4, 12
Public discourse
33, 39, 67, 134, 166, 168–173
Public domain
148
Public forums and events
4, 27, 28, 37, 39, 140, 141, 146
Public interest
197
Public life
18
Public/private divide
135, 168
Public services
13, 15, 50, 130, 131
Public theology
10, 14–15
Race/Raced/Racialised
2, 9, 41, 43, 46, 53, 54, 56–57, 59, 60, 77, 79, 80, 82, 84, 85, 93, 131, 144, 145, 158, 160, 169, 173, 189, 195, 198, 201, 202, 209, 211, 213, 231
Racism and
6–7, 80
White/whiteness
6–7, 8, 10, 19, 42, 55–59, 76, 80, 85, 160, 166, 199, 201, 211, 213, 217
Rambo, Shelly
32, 172
Redemption/Redemptive
17, 32, 48, 142, 177, 187
Reflexivity
3, 17, 22, 23, 35, 42, 82, 192, 198, 209–218
Refuge/Refugee
2, 4, 11, 21, 39, 92, 118–119, 130, 131, 136, 138–140, 157, 158, 160, 161, 169, 190, 193, 194, 204
Asylum/Asylum system
11, 50, 108, 138–140, 143, 153, 175, 189
Border Agency
4, 120, 131, 140, 146, 179, 193
Hostile environment
138, 167
Relationality/Relations/Relationships
2, 3, 20, 27, 48, 50, 51, 52, 53, 61, 83, 150, 176, 206, 225, 227, 232
collaboration
And complexity
77–80, 159
As face-to-face
192–196
As mediating interpretations
7, 176
As social and material
36–42, 53, 67
Purity of relations
54, 83n.157, 195
Relational selves
22, 35, 210–211
Relational transcendence
85
Web image
200–203
Representation
6, 13, 18, 80, 82, 86, 148, 157, 161, 209, 210, 227
Fictional
73–76
Misrepresentation
16, 20, 53, 56, 59, 62, 76
Practices and processes of
1, 3, 7, 17, 34, 50, 52, 54, 57, 59, 62–64, 65, 67–69, 231
Refusing total representation
31, 64, 85, 149, 180, 182, 187, 221–222
Voice and
1
Resist/Resistance
1, 6, 33, 35, 46, 78, 79, 80, 110, 143, 145, 156, 180–184, 200
Rivera, Mayra
18, 19, 21, 23, 31, 39–41, 53–54, 64, 65n.63, 71, 79, 84–85, 97, 113, 158, 161, 168, 173–178, 186, 188, 212, 213, 214, 218, 224, 225
Robinson, Roger
144
Sacred
1, 2, 21,70, 72, 78, 175, 186, 187, 190, 227
Sacred/secular divide
54, 58, 67, 70, 82, 173
Sacralizing testimony
172
Tracing the sacred
76, 186
Self
32, 71, 211, 212, 225
Fragmented
80–81
Reflexivity
209–218
Refusing stable, unified self
22, 23, 195, 210
Self-in-relation
22–23, 35, 201, 210
Voice and
33–36
Sexual abuse and sexual violence
4, 5, 6, 9n.28, 94, 139, 157
Family cap and rape clause
135–138
Sheppard, Phillis Isabella
56–57, 59, 78, 213
Silence
8, 10, 30–33, 50, 51, 62, 65, 142, 158, 169, 171, 185, 190, 194, 219, 228–229, 232
As resistance
35, 200
Connecting Stories Exhibition
114–115, 116
Solidarity
50, 84, 90, 108, 113, 140, 156, 199
And difference
171–173
Spivak, Gayatri
33–36, 63, 78–79
Stigma
2, 4, 38–39, 40, 42, 49, 51, 105, 130, 138, 140, 142, 148, 173, 175, 178, 186, 194
Story/Stories
4, 17, 41, 43, 51, 72–75, 140, 141, 146–149, 202n.18, 219, 226, 228
Connecting Stories project
89–130, 150–156, 159, 160, 167, 176, 193–195, 199, 200–202, 204–207, 219–220, 223
Difficulties of telling
28–30
Relational
37
Terminology
11, 28
Subaltern
33, 36
Testimony/Testimonial
21, 32, 41, 108, 122, 138, 139
Poetics of testimony
31, 168–173
‘Testifying commissioners’ terminology
11
Testimonial spaces
131, 140–143
Testimonial witnessing
4–8
Townes, Emilie
188–190
Transformation
1, 2, 4, 8, 10, 18, 21, 23, 27, 41, 52–53, 66–68, 71, 75, 144, 146, 149, 151, 153, 159, 165–191, 192, 193, 218, 232, 233
Researcher being transformed
205
Risking transformation
20, 76–86
Transcendence
48, 53–54, 67, 68, 83, 85, 172, 177, 187
Trauma
4, 6, 8, 18, 30–33, 65, 80, 92, 118, 136–138, 139, 142, 171, 194
Valid/Validity
1, 2, 22, 39, 50, 56, 60, 130, 145, 169, 171, 231
credible/credibility
Victim/Victimhood
5, 41, 59, 71, 84, 139, 140, 142, 148, 149, 159, 161, 204
disability
poverty
refugee
Visweswaran, Kamala
35–36, 200
Voice
3, 10, 23, 32, 33–36, 51, 66, 79, 85, 94, 97, 140, 142, 158, 171, 180–184, 195, 200, 221
Walton, Heather
17, 18, 54–55, 58, 65–68
Welfare cuts and assessments
2, 3, 4, 10, 11, 13–15, 21, 90, 124, 130, 131, 132–138, 153, 179
austerity
Womanist theology
9, 16, 44, 65, 78, 95, 118, 166, 188, 208, 230