Doing Performative Social Science

1. Introduction: Performative Social Science as Methodology Section I 2. Pen Portraits Section II - Theatre and engaging across the fourth wall: Audience participation, performance, and drama 3. A Theatre-Based Program for Traumatic Stress in Military Veterans 4. Battling for Wounded Me 5. Improvising music and Improvising Research Methods in a Performative Social Science Research Project 6. Theatre to connect and reassure about the challenges of feeding a loved one who is sick 7. JURY PLAY - jury research in action 8. What to expect when you aren't expected: Bringing queer birthing lives from story to stage Section III: Education: Teaching and Embodied Learning 9.Conversations: Changing life perspectives through a microtopia of integrated arts education in a South African Primary School 10.How does it feel to walk the slack line? Too tired for considerations 11.Exhibit Interviews. Reflections on presenting qualitative data in exhibitions 12. Don't be afraid to be performative! Doing Performative Social Science at Keio University in Tokyo, Japan Section IV: Poetry as identity and community 13."ALUM ROCK IS A BIT LIKE ME"COMMUNITY, PLACE AND IDENTITY THROUGH POETIC INQUIRY 14.Embracing the Mosaic: Crafting Collaborative Poetics Research for Critical Resilience Section V: Innovations 15.Earth writing|writing earth: instructions for the geo-poet wanting to interview a river Section VI: PSS, Virtual Realities and Self-reflection 16. Symphonies of Performance: The Potential of PSS with Virtual Reality Technologies 17. "YOU ARE TOO HOT TO BE A RESEARCHER" DANCING WITH PERFORMATIVE SOCIAL SCIENCE Section VII. Conclusions 18.Some Conclusions, Intrusions, and Shock Endings