Creative Disruption

Introduction - by Clau Di Gianfrancesco, Guilaine Kinouani and Hannah Reeves.- 1. Dancing the dance of disruption - by Leila Lawton, Michelle Michael and John Adlam.- 2. Doing Love in Research - by Rayann Bryan.- 3. Fragmented, undone - by Clau Di Gianfrancesco and Elena Gkivisi.- 4. Echoes of the other language: Responding from another place - by Ayelen Hamity & Daniela Larraín-Salas.- 5. The Clinician as Killjoy (Without Killing Joy) - by Rebecca Esho Greenslade.- 6. Long Covid and the Politics of Disablement - by Robert Chapman and Micha Frazer-Carroll.- 7. Involuntary attention as creative disruption: meeting the urban wild with neurodivergent strategies - by Hannah Reeves (sample chapter included in proposal submission).- 8. Connecting as praxis: meeting the Other and meeting the self in qualitative research - by Guilaine Kinouani.- 9. Writing ourselves in - by Tulika Jha.- 10. Creative Disruptions With/In Psychoanalysis - by Arturo Bandinelli & Iris Aleida Pinzón Arteaga.- 11. Being Black Freud: A creative phenomenological exploration of the psychological impact of black activism - by Dwight Turner.- 12. Dramatizing Brexit as a Psychic Object - by Tom Fielder.- 13. "No, that pancake batter recipe is mine": Disrupting the Mammy Social Script in Nonprofits" - by Janedra Sykes.- 14. Dreaming to Wake Up to Whiteness - by Nancy Blair, Els van Ooijen, Halina Pytlasinska, Jennifer Ramsay and Jane Ribbens McCarthy.- 15. Afterword - by Clau Di Gianfrancesco, Guilaine Kinouani and Hannah Reeves.

Guilaine Kinouani is the director and founder of Race Reflections. She is a psychologist and group analyst working across equality and justice. She has taught critical psychology and Black studies. She is the author of Living While Black (2021) and White Minds (2023). Her PhD at Birkbeck examines whiteness in the clinic.

Hannah Reeves is a PhD candidate at Birkbeck and a visiting scholar at Aarhus University, Denmark. She focuses on affect studies, feminist neomaterialisms, and environmental humanities and advocates for collaboration within and beyond academia.

Clau Di Gianfrancesco is a PhD candidate at Birkbeck exploring how participatory theatrical practices such as Theatre of the Oppressed can drive social change, particularly concerning gender and sexuality.