1 Creativity as dissent and resistance: Transformative approach premised on social justice agenda. Anna Stetsenko The Graduate Center of the City University of New York In: Iza Lebuda and Vlad Glaveanu (2018) (Eds.), The Palgrave Handbook of Social Creativity Research. London, UK: Palgrave. Key words: transformative agency, activist stance, equality, social justice, Vygotsky, Bakhtin Address for correspondence: Anna Stetsenko, PhD Professor Ph.D. Programs in Psychology/Human Development and in Urban Education The Graduate Center of The City University of New York 365 5th Avenue, New York, NY 10016 Email: astetsenko@gc.cuny.edu Tel: 212 817 87 15