Experiences of 'sensory space-time compression' in migrant homemaking

Datos Bibliográficos

ID4762643
AutoresRichard Webber (0000-0001-6584-0527, Bradford Teaching Hospitals, NHS Foundation Trust, Bradford, UK, autor de correspondencia)
Año2024
Volumen25
Número4
Páginas601-619
Fecha de publicación2024-04-20
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaSocial & Cultural Geography (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 1464-9365 • E-ISSN: 1470-1197
EditorialInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/14649365.2023.2183246
OpenAlexW4323268453
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas12
Referencias citadas57

Research examining migrant homemaking is multi-disciplinary and well-developed, providing evidence that 'home' exists in multiple places. However, only a small component of this work examines the role of the senses. This paper draws on research conducted between 2015 and 2019 in Glasgow, a city in Scotland, UK, with migrant, refugee and asylum-seeking women that used photo elicitation interviews, to bridge the gap between scholarship on migrant homemaking and the senses. The paper empirically demonstrates how the senses allow migrants to cultivate the embodied experience of physically being elsewhere by drawing on sensory memories, practices, and material cultures, specifically engaging taste and smell. The paper analyses the experience of four participants who described this sensation, and addresses the impact of the security of migrant status and financial resources in sensory homemaking. The concluding discussion proposes the concept of 'sensory space-time compression' as a novel way of understanding the sensory experiences of home in the context of migration

Aesthetics · Art · Cognitive psychology · Context (archaeology · Embodied cognition · Epistemology · Linguistics · Political science · Refugee · Scholarship · Sensory system · Sociology · Taste · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Gender Studies · Geographies of human-animal interactions · History · Law · Psychology · Sex work and related issues · Social Psychology