rm borders catc presentation durham symposium

*CATC HUB WAYS OF WORKING*

Migration stories are skin memories (Reference: Ahmed, 2000)

• Migration experiences bound up in multilingualism & multisensory life experience

• Accounts can evade full linguistic description & intellectual analysis

• Integrating skin memories – embodied data?• Don’t presuppose linguistic/bodily integrity

PEDAGOGY-BASED RESEARCH

Example 1: Freedom From Torture (Tawona)Example 2: Our Stories Documentary Series (Gameli)

Methodological Challenges(Reference: Ellsworth, 2004)

Pedagogy-Based Research

‘Traditional’ Research

• Sensation

• Subjects of Experience

• The Affective

• Learning as Play and Pleasure

• Language

• Objects of Experience

• The Rational

• Knowledge as Tool for Prediction and Control

Ethical dimensions: Precarity(Reference: Butler, 2011)

• Unexpectedness in research • ‘Unfinished’ participant accounts point to precarity• Immediacy of relationships vs. moral endpoints• Ethical paradox (don’t gloss over)• ‘Safe spaces’ in research?

Opportunity for ‘acts of making’ & creative collaboration on participants' termsExample 1: Music ability (Gameli)Example 2: Outtakes from ‘Making of’ (Katja) http://vimeo.com/75256090

The Body as a Site of Knowledge(Reference: Levin & Greenwood, 2001)

• Decentred methodology (Phipps, 2013)• Space for diverse agendas & unexpected

narratives• Measures ethical and pedagogical impact• Mode of collection and consumption of data

vs. description of modes of encounters• Asserts pedagogical stance (Ahmed-quote)Example: Community performance as a response to engagement performance /Creating knowledge with participants (Gameli)

Creative methods: a site of production

• Acknowledge poetics and fictionality of life• Liberation from explanatory models• Research ‘in-between’• Research as Poetic Sharing vs. linguistic

integrity

Collaborative narration of reality – porous data

Example: Adinkra symbols for poetic sharing of self (Cecilia)

Adinkra symbols for poetic sharing(Reference: Naa Densua-Cecila’s designs)

• Adinkra and similar symbols system as a creative resource.

• Possibilities for multilingual engagement at both textual and visual levels through the names, meanings, of the symbols and also the proverbs and philosophic representations each symbol perform

CATC-RMTC Overlap(Reference: Hub documents)

• Collaboration, Co-creation, Reflexivity• Critical pedagogy – modes of engagement• Acknowledging ‘Life Narratives’• Sustainable research practice• (Creative) Puzzles & The Unexpected • Focus on Research Encounters – Spaces for

Exchange

Creating Synthesis: Creative Methods in your research?

DISCUSSION POINTS:• Where do creative methods fit into your

research environment/ your ways of working with people? (Reflection, collection, dissemination …)

• Is a successful integration of creative methods case study/hub or ‘research culture’ specific?

THANK YOU – DANKE – AKPE

Funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (UK) through the Translating Cultures Programme [grant reference AH/L006936/1]