Inquiring Artfully: Enacting Artful Politics

The introduction to this special issue considers the political potential of enactments of artful inquiry. The editors examine how taking up artful practices as a way of making knowledge, turning to artists as theorists and philosophers, presenting findings visually, poetically, or through other evocative means, reorients, and reimagines the epistemological, ontological, and axiological assumptions of social science research. In doing so, we argue that artful inquiry offers an avenue for practicing radical hope, interrupting, and troubling logics of modernity/coloniality/white supremacy in social science research.