A practical course to explore creative writing as a method and a mode of expression within social science and humanities research.
We will challenge the conventional divide between personal experience and scholarly analysis, using writing to access realms of knowledge and affect that often lie beyond the reach of traditional academic forms.
Through creative exercises, we will move beyond the colonial and racial boundaries that split the intellectual from the emotional, the mind from the body, and the researcher from their subjects—divisions often upheld as norms within academia. These boundaries restrict our ability to engage with scholarship in democratic, anti-racist, and embodied ways.
Participants will engage in free writing, creative field notes, reflective prose, and writing with photographs and other works of art. Together, these practices form a series of exercises that seek to decolonise academic knowledge production and open space to dwell within the interconnected boundaries of self, scholarship, memory and collectivity.
Details on the course are to be announced in autumn 2025.
Global Racisms Institute for Social Transformation 