Healing Inquiry: Collaborative Practice, Artistic Interpretation, and a Decolonial Response to Living in and Through War


CohenMiller A. Dikanchiyeva L.
June 2025SAGE Publications Inc.

Cultural Studies - Critical Methodologies
2025#25Issue 3179 - 184 pp.

This article integrates arts-based research and critical self-reflective questions through embodied questions of having lived in Ukraine and Kazakhstan at the time the war broke out in 2022: What was it like to have left Kiev with a family amid the bombing with family? How has the adjustment unfolded? How can life be meaningful today, if at all? Through a collaborative artistic interpretation of a co-produced work, we highlight the unsaid feelings and thoughts, emphasizing a decolonial response to strife, pain, trauma, and war to allow for a healing inquiry of hope through thoughtful, caring spaces to learn and deeply feel the human experience.

arts-based inquiry , decolonizing the academy , feminist methodologies , feminist qualitative research , methodologies , methods of inquiry , pedagogy , postcolonial methodologies , reconceptualizing collaboration , writing as method of inquiry

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Nord University, Bodø, Norway
Zebra Montessori, Astana, Kazakhstan

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