Practicing the Social: Entanglements of Art and Social Justice

Practicing the Social: Entanglements of Art and Social Justice brings together artists, activists, and scholars who use creative practice to reimagine how we live and build more just worlds. This collection centers disability, Deaf, Mad, neurodivergent, Indigenous, Black, Brown, queer, fat, and aging arts and cultures, highlighting creative practices that reconfigure the social from the ground up.Across five sections-Designing, Enacting, Troubling, Analyzing, and Transforming the Social-contributors examine how art cultivates access justice, deepens relationality, unsettles dominant narratives, and seeds alternative futures. Spanning dance, feasting, storytelling, video art, curatorial and archival activism, youth and community arts, creative pedagogies and digital worldmaking, the chapters demonstrate how creative acts intervene in colonial, white supremacist, ableist, and neoliberal systems, while opening pathways for connection, coalition, and collective flourishing.In dialogue with