Walking Again Lively: Towards an Ambulant and Conversive Methodology of Performance and Research

Misha Myers*

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Abstract

Narrative walking practices, or modes of conversational activity set in motion by the conditions of wayfinding, potentially offer mobile and dialogic methods of engaging with experiences of mobility and of representing those experiences. They also offer alternative ways of intervening in politics and policy impacting on the distribution of mobility or immobility. The artwork way from home employed such practices as a performative, participatory and interventional methodology for eliciting and representing the transnational experiences, affects and significances of place for refugees and asylum seekers across the UK. The various strategies conceived here as homing devices, homing tales and conversive wayfinding, were employed to construct 'meeting places' where transnational views, perspectives, experiences and knowledge could be exchanged. This methodology proposes alternatives to hegemonies of communication, representation and authorship in both artistic and scholarly production, through processes that interrelate experiential, analytical and interventional ways of knowing.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)183-201
Number of pages19
JournalMobilities
Volume6
Issue number2
Early online date23 Mar 2011
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - May 2011
Externally publishedYes

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Demography
  • Geography, Planning and Development
  • Sociology and Political Science

Keywords

  • Ambulant methods
  • Conversive wayfinding
  • Homing place
  • Homing tales
  • Refugee experience
  • Migration

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