Sites of knowledge and knowing

Abstract

In Allegranti’s philosophical and reflexive report of her research work Becoming Bodies (2013) she encouraged the creative arts therapy community to resist the re-iteration of the “stifling politics of the status quo” (p. 402). As Editor-in-Chief of The Arts in Psychotherapy Allegranti’s work compels me to explore how a new imaginary of practice and research can continue to be shared and shaped in this journal. By stimulating the theoretical, political, and expanded epistemological thinking that Allegranti’s work exemplifies, a journal can prod, poke, and jostle the field, overwhelming the conservative sensibility of wanting to be safe and belong and instead encourage the radical, the different, and the new. In turn this can bring creative thinking to the fore in health and education environments.