Event overview
'Imagining selfhood, mobility & futurities through creative practice in ethnographic research' with Alexandra D’Onofrio, Granada Centre for Visual Anthropology.
Part of spring term seminar series.
This paper is based on my practice-based research which set out to explore the subjective perspectives of people that have experienced the illegal crossing of the Mediterranean, focusing in particular on what are perceived as existential ‘turning points’ (Lucht 2012) by the protagonists themselves. It has developed theoretically and methodologically through collaboration with Mohamed, Ali and Mahmoud, three Egyptian men who have migrated to Milan in search of better economic and living opportunities. Between 2012 and 2014 I engaged Mohamed, Ali e Mahmoud in various creative processes, amongst which theatre improvisations, storytelling events, participatory photography workshops, documentary filmmaking and participatory animation. Attempting to avoid the risk of reifying my research participants' imaginative lifeworlds to static properties of critical analysis, the creative practice created the ethnographic context, and produced the material that questioned our thoughts about their personal experiences, their memories, expectations, imaginations, stories and consequentially formed my theoretical arguments as informed by the reflections and theorisations that emerged in dialogue with my research participants.
Dates & times
| Date | Time | Add to calendar |
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| 13 Mar 2019 | 4:00pm - 6:00pm |
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