Lauren Michelle Levesque
Biographic Data
| ID | 6188567 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Lauren Michelle Levesque |
| GIVEN NAMES | Lauren Michelle |
| FAMILY NAME | Levesque |
| SIGNATURE | LEVESQUE L M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Saint Paul University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3256-3134 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Radical Stillness
In this article, the authors examine aspects of care, stillness, and rest in actions geared toward constructive social change. Drawing on their respective fields, artistic practices, and personal experiences, the authors ask: How can examples of lying down and/or standing still in protest settings expand our understandings of rest and sleep as public resistance? How can historical accounts of die-ins and/or standing protests provide insight into …
Small Repairs
May Chazan (2023) characterizes writing about her pandemic experiences, including burnout, grief, and a cancer diagnosis as a "kind of artful practice," one that pushes back against "the limits of the neoliberal academy" (p. 1). Bringing together critical disability studies, personal narrative, and slow scholarship, she argues that artful practice can be understood as an act of reworlding (pp. 1-2). For Chazan, creative acts can produce "alternat…
Rethinking the role of community media in conflict transformation and peacebuilding
Whereas much has been written about the role community media plays in peacebuilding, emphasis is often put on participatory media models as key determinants of peace or conflict sustainability. Little is known, however, about the conditions under which such media increase or impede peace efforts due to the complex nature of conflict. Moreover, how, when, and by whom such media can be tailored to offer favorable conditions for peacebuilding at the…
Singing the Night
This paper explores singing lullabies as a practice that opens spaces to reflect on ‘night’ as a sonic and sensory experience with implications for research in music and peacebuilding. Using arts-based and autoethnographic approaches, I ask: Can singing lullabies (Juvancic 2010) open a space to examine how sounding at night shapes a researcher’s ‘peace’ imaginary? This question aims to expand understandings of the ‘self’ as a site of an “aestheti…
Embodied witness
This article brings together interdisciplinary perspectives from three artist-scholars. More specifically, we examine the impact of performances of listening and care in works addressing connections to personal identity, trauma, and violence and the anxieties that these can provoke in our roles as artists, researchers, and pedagogues. We ask: how can embodied witnessing help to reimagine the concepts of agency and risk when engaging with stories …
Small Sounds in Familiar Places
In this article, the movement between the gravity and synchrony of love in pandemic times as revealed through the creative practices of poetry and cellphone photography is addressed. Informed by literature on slow scholarship published prior to and during the COVID-19 pandemic, the author explores the ways in which listening to and caring for the small sounds of a familiar place–here a rural backyard–can act as a generative theoretical space to r…
Puppets Know Best
This article addresses the struggle of crafting a recognized professional scholarly identity, and reflects on the significance of puppets to interrupt this struggle, assert one’s voice, and creatively occupy one’s space. Our interdisciplinary contribution aims to extend conversations on the realities of academic life that are often muted or diluted such as anxiety, self-doubt, weariness and failure, with implications for creative research practic…
Clock in the Living Room
This article explores the practice of intergenerational listening and its implications for re-imagining social connection in the COVID-19 crisis. Using an approached based in conversation and exchange facilitated through video-conferencing platforms, the authors critically reflect on the possibilities for developing a new sense of social connection by listening to the everyday sounds (Tuuri and Peltola 2019) of particular spaces. More specificall…
Hollowness is a Not-so-hidden State
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Small Sounds in Familiar Places
In this article, the movement between the gravity and synchrony of love in pandemic times as revealed through the creative practices of poetry and cellphone photography is addressed. Informed by literature on slow scholarship published prior to and during the COVID-19 pandemic, the author explores the ways in which listening to and caring for the small sounds of a familiar place–here a rural backyard–can act as a generative theoretical space to r…
Puppets Know Best
This article addresses the struggle of crafting a recognized professional scholarly identity, and reflects on the significance of puppets to interrupt this struggle, assert one’s voice, and creatively occupy one’s space. Our interdisciplinary contribution aims to extend conversations on the realities of academic life that are often muted or diluted such as anxiety, self-doubt, weariness and failure, with implications for creative research practic…
Clock in the Living Room
This article explores the practice of intergenerational listening and its implications for re-imagining social connection in the COVID-19 crisis. Using an approached based in conversation and exchange facilitated through video-conferencing platforms, the authors critically reflect on the possibilities for developing a new sense of social connection by listening to the everyday sounds (Tuuri and Peltola 2019) of particular spaces. More specificall…
Hollowness is a Not-so-hidden State
Singing the Night
This paper explores singing lullabies as a practice that opens spaces to reflect on ‘night’ as a sonic and sensory experience with implications for research in music and peacebuilding. Using arts-based and autoethnographic approaches, I ask: Can singing lullabies (Juvancic 2010) open a space to examine how sounding at night shapes a researcher’s ‘peace’ imaginary? This question aims to expand understandings of the ‘self’ as a site of an “aestheti…
Embodied witness
This article brings together interdisciplinary perspectives from three artist-scholars. More specifically, we examine the impact of performances of listening and care in works addressing connections to personal identity, trauma, and violence and the anxieties that these can provoke in our roles as artists, researchers, and pedagogues. We ask: how can embodied witnessing help to reimagine the concepts of agency and risk when engaging with stories …
Small Repairs
May Chazan (2023) characterizes writing about her pandemic experiences, including burnout, grief, and a cancer diagnosis as a "kind of artful practice," one that pushes back against "the limits of the neoliberal academy" (p. 1). Bringing together critical disability studies, personal narrative, and slow scholarship, she argues that artful practice can be understood as an act of reworlding (pp. 1-2). For Chazan, creative acts can produce "alternat…
Rethinking the role of community media in conflict transformation and peacebuilding
Whereas much has been written about the role community media plays in peacebuilding, emphasis is often put on participatory media models as key determinants of peace or conflict sustainability. Little is known, however, about the conditions under which such media increase or impede peace efforts due to the complex nature of conflict. Moreover, how, when, and by whom such media can be tailored to offer favorable conditions for peacebuilding at the…
Radical Stillness
In this article, the authors examine aspects of care, stillness, and rest in actions geared toward constructive social change. Drawing on their respective fields, artistic practices, and personal experiences, the authors ask: How can examples of lying down and/or standing still in protest settings expand our understandings of rest and sleep as public resistance? How can historical accounts of die-ins and/or standing protests provide insight into …
Sociology (8 works) · Aesthetics (5 works) · Art (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Psychology (5 works) · Visual arts (5 works) · Active listening (3 works) · Communication (3 works) · Posthumanist Ethics and Activism (3 works) · The arts (3 works)