Publications

In the overview below, you find all the publications that have been coming out of our 'Engaged Scholarship and Narratives of Change'-project. If you are interested in the core works that have inspired our work, please check the page Engaged Literatures. If you are interested in other publications in the field of engaged scholarship, please see our elaborate literature list.

2025

• Ocadiz Arriaga, M. A. (2025). On Borderless Resistance and Nomadic Appetites: Weaving Decolonial (Dis)ruptures with Forced Migrants in South Africa [PhD thesis, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam]. https://doi.org/10.5463/thesis.1247
• Holle, F., Jelenjev, L., Loenen-Ruiz, R., Ammar, A., & Salmanpour, S. (2025). LIMBO: Queer exilic narratives [Booklet]. Framer Framed. https://online.fliphtml5.com/wfkju/dvkf/#p=1
• Greene, A. (2025). A feminist ethics of failure: Rethinking negative affects and actions in research. Feminist Theory, 0(0). https://doi.org/10.1177/14647001251353113
• Ponzoni, E., Fiorito, T.R., & Ghorashi, H., (2025) Urban Solidarities in late modern societies: Interspaces for meaningful engagement in Los Angeles and Amsterdam. Urban Studies: https://doi.org/10.1177/00420980251329271.

2024

• Ghorashi, H. (2024). Decolonizing the integration discourse through embedded narratives. Ethnic and Racial Studies, 1–20. https://doi.org/10.1080/01419870.2024.243829
• Ghorashi, H., & Rast, M. C. (Eds.). (2024). Theorizing as a liberatory practice? The emancipatory promise of knowledge co-creation with (forced) migrants [Special issue]. Social Inclusion, 12. https://doi.org/10.17645/si.9636
• Kusmallah, N., & Ghorashi, H. (2024). Agency in silence: The case of unaccompanied Eritrean refugee minors in the Netherlands. Social Inclusion, 12. https://doi.org/10.17645/si.7704
• Holle, F., Ponzoni, E., Ghorashi, H. (2024). Conditions for Transformative Engaged Scholarship in Co-creation with Queer Refugees. In: Regeer, B.J., Klaassen, P., Broerse, J.E.W. (eds) Transdisciplinarity for Transformation. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-60974-9_11
• Ocadiz, M. A., & PE Ladies. (2024). Loboko ya Mama: African recipes in times of pandemic. Langaa Research & Publishing CIG. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1zDKf2XqjNI6jxiAp5uTQJ_vHuVh6yT0j/view?usp=sharing
• Ocadiz Arriaga, M. A. (2024). Roots. In A Collection of Creative Anthropologies: Drowning in Blue Light and Other Stories (pp. 91-96). Cham: Springer Nature Switzerland.
• Ocadiz Arriaga, M. A., & Dyer-Williams, N. (2024). Co‐Creating Sensuous Knowledge Through Food Practices With Women and LGBTQI+ Migrants in South Africa. Social Inclusion, 12.
• Ocadiz Arriaga, M. A. (2024). Nourishing the belly of the beast: Creative food practices for critical migration studies. IMISCOE PhD Blog. https://www.imiscoe.org/news-and-blog/phd-blog/2149-nourishing-the-belly-of-the-beast-creative-food-practices-for-critical-migration-studies
• Ocadiz Arriaga, M. A. (2024). A (fragmented) portrait of engaged scholarship. IMISCOE PhD Blog Special Issue. https://imiscoeconferences.org/images/1-user-content/PhD%20Network/IMISCOE%20PhD%20Blog%20Special%20Issue%202024.pdf
• Rast, M. C. (2024). Unsettle and be unsettled: How co-creation with refugees can help transform exclusionary societal and academic structures [PhD thesis, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam]. https://doi.org/10.5463/thesis.725

2023

• Ghorashi, H. (2023) Structurele ‘bite’ van diversiteit en inclusive. Beleid en Maatschappij (14)2: 117-133, doi: 10.5553/BenM/138900692023050002009.
• Ghorashi (2023) Home and the Politics of Location and Displacement, In: Boccagni, P. (ed.) Handbook on Home and Migration, Edward Elgar Publishing, 170-183.
• Ghorashi, H., K. Boersma & F. Azarhoosh (2023) Tussen-denken en inclusief besturen rond armoede, In: Overmans, T., M. Honingh en M. Noordegraaf (red.), Werken aan maatschappelijke vraagstukken: verbindende bestuurskunde? In het kader van 50 jaar jubileum van Vereniging voor Bestuurskunde (VB). Boom,  pp. 97-113.
• Ocadiz Arriaga, M. (2023). Loboko Ya Mama’: Homemade recipes of belonging. Agenda. (pp. 27-37).
• Ocadiz Arriaga, M. A., Shamuyarira, T., & Matebeni, Z. (2023). Episodio especial: Arte y comunidad LGBTIQ+ en África [Podcast episode]. PUEAA UNAM Podcast. https://open.spotify.com/episode/21eiUiWHVZfP9JKjVRH2O0
• Greene, A., Espiritu, Y., & Nyamangah, D. (2023). Social and Curricular Inclusion in Refugee Education: Critical Approaches to Education Advocacy. Social Inclusion, 11(2), 104-114. doi::https://doi.org/10.17645/si.v11i2.6376.
• Mbasalaki P. K. (2023) Building coalitions across structural borders as a form radical intimacy. In Bhambra G., Mayblin L., Viyoga V. & Medien K. (eds). The SAGE Handbook of Global Social Theory. Sage.
  Gunaratnum Y., Mbasalaki P.K. & Matchett S. (2023) Scene! Colman R., Jungnickel K. & Puar N. (eds) How to do Research with…, Goldsmiths University Press.
• Mbasalaki P. K. (2023) ‘Prostitute’s body found with missing head[1]’: sex work femicide in South Africa and the making of #sayhername campaign by SWEAT in South Africa. In Myrna Dawson and Saide Mobayed (eds) The Routledge International Handbook of Femicide and Feminicide. Routledge.

2022

• Ghorashi, H. (2022) “Tussenruimtes” als broedplaats van verdraagzaamheid. In: Marcel ter Hooven (red.) Ware Tolerantie: Hoe we onszelf kunnen zijn en elkaar toch kunnen verdragen. Amsterdam: Van Gennep, pp. 89-99.
• Holle, F. (2022). Enabling and Obstructing Flow through Creative Co-creation. Errant Journal#4. (pp. 49–60).
• Holle, F., & Ammar, A. (2022). Safe Enough To Be Brave.FOAM Magazine#62- The Transnational Issue. (pp. 161–168).
• Holle, F., Bawits, N., Regeni, E., Ponzoni, E., & Ghorashi, H. (2022). LIMBO: Queer exilic narratives – Booklet #1 [Booklet]. Framer Framed. https://online.fliphtml5.com/wfkju/iycd/#p=1

2021

• Ghorashi, H. (2021) Normalising power and engaged narrative methodology: refugee women, the forgotten category in the public discourse. Feminist Review 129: pp. 48-63. 
• Holle, F., Rast, M. C. & Ghorashi, H. (2021) Exilic (Art) Narratives of Queer Refugees Challenging Dominant Hegemonies. Front. Sociol. 6:641630. doi: 10.3389/fsoc.2021.641630
• Rast M. C. (2021) Walls, Cracks and Change: The Challenges and Opportunities of Critically Engaged Research Within Current Academic and Refugee Research Structures. Critical Sociology. doi:10.1177/08969205211034227
• Younes, Y., H. Ghorashi & E. Ponzoni (2021) Conflicting Experiences With Welcoming Encounters: Narratives of Newly Arrived Refugees in the Netherlands. Social Inclusion 9 (4): pp. 222-231

2020

• Ghorashi, H. (2020) Taking racism beyond Dutch innocence. European Journal of Women’s Studies, first online: doi: 10.1177/1350506820978897
• Ocadiz, M. (2020). Love is a battlefield. Engaged Scholarship Narratives of Change. https://engagedscholarshipnarrativesofchange.org/contributions/blog/73-love-is-a-battlefield

2019

• Crul, M., L. Dick, H. Ghorashi & A. Valenzuela Jr. (eds.), 2020, Scholarly engagement and decolonization: Views from South Africa, The Netherlands and the United States. Stellenbosch: African SUN media
• Ocadiz, M. (2019). Corazonar: Co-creation with a heart. Engaged Scholarship Narratives of Change. https://engagedscholarshipnarrativesofchange.org/contributions/blog/21-corazonar-co-creation-with-a-heart