My Dad Was, Is a Soldier
Using Collaborative Poetic Inquiry to Explore Intergenerational Trauma, Resilience, and Wellbeing in the Context of Forced Migration
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5936070 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Lydia Wanja Gitau (0000-0003-3473-9367, UNSW Sydney, corresponding author), Achol Arop (Deakin University), Caroline Lenette (0000-0002-2317-0438, UNSW Sydney) |
| Year | 2023 |
| Volume | 12 |
| Issue | 8 |
| Pages | 455 |
| Publication date | 2023-08-15 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Social Sciences (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2076-0760 • E-ISSN: 2076-0760 |
| Publisher | MDPI AG (PUBLISHER • IT) |
| DOI | 10.3390/socsci12080455 |
| OpenAlex | W4385840360 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 5 |
| References cited | 43 |
The topics of intergenerational trauma, resilience, and wellbeing as they relate to forced migration are receiving more attention in the arts and health literature. Yet, we know very little about how refugee-background young adults manage their psychosocial wellbeing when they grow up surrounded by stories of conflict, loss, and trauma. Achol has been writing poetry to represent and amplify the narratives of those around her (parents, family, and the South Sudanese community in Sydney, Australia). These stories are central elements of her lived experience and the diverse experiences of her community. Using collaborative poetic inquiry, this paper identifies key themes in one of her poems, My dad was, is a soldier, to illustrate how poetry is an important artistic mode of expression that can improve our understanding of intergenerational trauma, resilience, and wellbeing. Rather than conveying interview data through research poems, we place Achol's poem at the centre of our collaborative poetic inquiry to gain new insights into refugee lived experiences. This paper contributes to contemporary debates on how artistic means enrich our knowledge of psychosocial wellbeing through trauma-informed, culturally safe, and decolonial research methods
Aesthetics · Art · Context (archaeology · Literature · Lived experience · Narrative · Poetry · Psychoanalysis · Psychological resilience · Psychosocial · Psychotherapist · Refugee · Sociology · Art Therapy and Mental Health · Gender Studies · History · Migration, Health and Trauma · Psychology · Resilience and Mental Health · Social Psychology
Gender and Forced Migration
Analysing Political Discourse
The Mental Health of Refugees
Intergenerational Trauma in Refugee Families
Understanding ‘Marginal’ Perspectives
A Critical Review of Resilience Theory and Its Relevance for Social Work
Trauma-Informed Social Work Practice
Participatory Action Research
Arts-Based Methods in Refugee Research
The Neoliberal Subject
‘We don’t have to go and see a special person to solve this problem’
Climate geopoetics (the earth is a composted poem)
The power of the poem”
Resistance as resilience
Children in families of torture victims
Collaborative Poetic Processes
Now let me share this with you”
Parental styles in the intergenerational transmission of trauma stemming from the Khmer Rouge regime in Cambodia
Poem is What?” Poetic Inquiry in Qualitative Social Science Research
Two-Eyed Seeing and other lessons learned within a co-learning journey of bringing together indigenous and mainstream knowledges and ways of knowing
Political violence, ethnic conflict, and contemporary wars
"Living in "survival mode
The Golden Country
Uniting Resilience Research and Practice With an Inequalities Approach
Pre-Engagement as Method
Water under the bridge? Nature, memory and hydropolitics
Expressive, research and reflective poetry as qualitative inquiry
Refugee mental health and human rights
Sleep difficulties among South Sudanese former refugees settled in Australia
To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield
The Only Way I Can Say This
| Unique citing works | 5 |
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| Citations per year | 1,67 |
| Citation span | 2023 - 2025 (3) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 5 |