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 language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 183-201 |
Number of pages | 19 |
Journal | Mobilities |
Volume | 6 |
Issue number | 2 |
Early online date | 23 Mar 2011 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - May 2011 |
Externally published | Yes |
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