Creative translation pathways for exploring gendered violence against Brazilian migrant women through a feminist translocational lens

Bibliographic Data

ID3649868
AuthorsCathy Mcilwaine (0000-0001-6528-599X)
Year2024
Volume50
Issue13
Pages3252-3274
Publication date2024-08-08
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueNew Community (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0047-9586 • E-ISSN: 1469-9451
PublisherInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/1369183x.2024.2345990
OpenAlexW4396673482
LanguageEN
Citations received4
References cited49

This paper explores how research on gendered violence among Brazilian migrant women in London has been translated through a range of creative engagements. It argues that these can challenge traditional forms of knowledge production, and advance intersectional feminist struggles through a logic of translocation. Yet it also challenges homogenous artistic encounters through developing ‘creative translation pathways’ which delineate different configurations of how researchers, artists, and participants using varied art forms. The paper focuses on two ‘creative translation pathways’ that capture different interpretative framings around the same research project. The first reflects a curatorial perspective through Gaël Le Cornec’s verbatim theatre play, Efêmera, which foregrounds her interpretation of Brazilian women’s stories adding a metatheatrical dimension to strengthen the narrative and connection with the audience. The second is a co-produced collaborative engagement, We Still Fight in the Dark, with community drama group, Migrants in Action, based around experimental workshops to produce an audio-visual film and installation where survivors’ perspectives and well-being are paramount. While both creative translation pathways reflected translocational feminist goals in raising awareness around gendered violence with a view to transform them, each had tensions around the individual, collective, artistic and therapeutic logics in the process of knowledge production

Aesthetics · Art · Drama · Interpretation (philosophy · Linguistics · Literature · Narrative · Perspective (graphical · Sociology · Visual arts · Gender Studies · Gender, Security, and Conflict · Participatory Visual Research Methods · Qualitative Research Methods and Ethics