C Nunn
Biographic Data
| ID | 3817 |
|---|---|
| NAME | C Nunn |
| GIVEN NAMES | C |
| FAMILY NAME | Nunn |
| SIGNATURE | NUNN C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Manchester Metropolitan University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3145-3099 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 21 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 148 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 21 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1969 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Mapping entangled mobilities: Using participatory historical geography to explore the migration of objects and people across (neo)colonial spatialities
This paper examines how creative counter‐maps can be a valuable participatory historical geography tool in their capacity to render visible multiple pasts, presents, and futures, and offer new possibilities for representation and belonging through visual and creative aesthetics. Emerging from the Ancient History, Contemporary Belonging project, the paper explores the co‐creation of a participatory counter‐map, Unprovenanced Map , displayed in Man…
Participatory museum projects with refugee-background young people
Museums in the Global North have turned to participatory practices with traditionally marginalized groups in response to social and political pressures to become more inclusive and relevant and to confront their colonial pasts. One group which museums are increasingly seeking to engage is refugee-background young people, located at the intersection of two groups traditionally excluded from contributing to museological practice. However, while a w…
Working with/beyond ‘language’: Insights from a listening walk with young men from asylum-seeking backgrounds in a rural treescape
This article articulates the affordances and challenges of researching with and beyond language on a listening walk with young men from asylumseeking backgrounds in a rural treescape. Offering methodological and conceptual provocations for creative multilingual research, the article does not (re)present a traditional research encounter with fixed methodologies and confident findings. Rather, it stories a research encounter, anchored in participat…
Mother tongue other tongue: Nine years of creative multilingualism in practice
This article assesses the impact over nine years of the Mother Tongue Other Tongue multilingual schools’ poetry competition led by Carol Ann Duffy from Manchester Metropolitan University, in which over 35,000 pupils from 77 schools have participated to date. It reviews evidence from a 2019 evaluation of the project and from a project anthology compiling several years of winning entries. The evidence suggests that the project is achieving its expe…
Beyond integration: Football as a mobile, transnational sphere of belonging for refugee-background young people
Sport is widely utilised as an integration tool for refugee-background young people in resettlement countries, with a concomitant research focus on the implementation and outcomes of health and integration initiatives. However, a narrow focus on integration as the context and outcome of sport participation limits our understanding of the wider role sport plays as a sphere of belonging for refugee-background young people. By taking a wider view of…
The participatory arts-based research project as an exceptional sphere of belonging
While belonging is rarely an explicit concern of participatory arts-based research (PABR), fostering inclusive relations is both an important condition for and outcome of PABR projects. Based on a participatory arts-based study with refugee-background young people in the United Kingdom and Australia, this article proposes five dimensions of PABR that mediate belonging within the project and shape possibilities for belonging beyond it: resources, …
Promoting healthy futures in a rural refugee resettlement location: A community-based participatory research intervention
The resettlement of refugees in rural areas is presenting new challenges for healthcare. This article reports on a community-based participatory research project that explored understandings of health and care across the life course in a refugee-background community in regional south-east Australia. Participants identified key challenges, including lack of access to local services that address their complex needs and problems created by communica…
Calais Again
Calais Again is a digital story recounting a young man, Anas' experience of returning to France for the first time after migrating to the United Kingdom as a separated asylum-seeking child. Produced using biographical narrative and participatory arts-based research approaches, Calais Again was created as a rare self-authored contribution to Anas' personal archive of migration documents, and as a resource for communicating the multiple and multi-l…
Making Sense of Intersecting Crises: Promises, Challenges, and Possibilities of Intersectional Perspectives in Youth Research
Precarious Hope: Situated Perspectives on the Covid-19 Pandemic from Undergraduate Students in Manchester, UK
The COVID-19 pandemic has had a profound impact on the lives of young people, transforming and disrupting education provision, employment opportunities, social practices, mobilities, and experiences of health and well-being. In the UK context, the pandemic can be understood as both a unique event and as a further addition to the intersecting crises—including austerity and Brexit—that are increasingly shaping and constraining youth experiences and…
Non-metropolitan productions of multiculturalism: Refugee settlement in rural Australia
In spite of the widespread backlash against multicultural policies, diversity remains a feature of globalized societies, requiring better understandings of how cultural difference is negotiated in rapidly transforming communities. Building on existing studies of multiculturalism in metropolitan contexts, we use interviews and ethnographic research to consider the transformation of a non-metropolitan community from a relatively homogeneous to an i…
Negotiating national (non)belongings: Vietnamese Australians in ethno/multicultural Australia
Many immigrant-receiving countries are characterised by increasing multigenerational ethnocultural diversity, with associated policies and discourses of inclusion. Yet they often simultaneously resist relinquishing narratives and practices grounded in idealised notions of ethnocultural homogeneity. This results in the circulation of multiple, often competing, ideas of the nation, with significant implications for national (non)belonging among mig…
Navigating Precarious Terrains: Reconceptualizing Refugee-Youth Settlement
Settlement is widely understood as the final stage of the refugee journey: a durable solution to forced displacement and a stable environment in which former refugees can rebuild their lives. However, settlement is shaped by rapidly changing socio-political forces producing contingent, unpredictable, and even hostile environments. This article draws upon Vigh’s concept of social navigation to reconceptualize settlement as a continuation of a frau…
Return visits and belonging to countries of origin among young people from refugee backgrounds
In this article, we explore the return visits of resettled young people from refugee backgrounds to their personal and/or ancestral countries of origin. We draw on qualitative data from a longitudinal study of people who fled their country of origin at an early age, many of whom were born or lived for protracted periods in countries of asylum, and resettled in Australia. We demonstrate that return visits are not simply a homecoming; the young peo…
Translations-Generations: Representing and Producing Migration Generations Through Arts-Based Research
Migration generations play a central role in structuring and mediating relations in immigrant-background groups and are important conceptual categories for understanding how these groups change over time. Yet, in both research and practice, communicating the complexities of intergenerational relations and generational change can be challenging. Tacit, sensuous, affective and embodied aspects of generations frequently evade capture in conventional…
I came to this country for a better life’: Factors mediating employment trajectories among young people who migrated to Australia as refugees during adolescence
Located at the intersection of two vulnerable groups in the contemporary labour market, young people who migrate as refugees during adolescence face a unique constellation of opportunities and challenges that shape their employment trajectories. Yet the tendency for research to focus on the early years of refugee settlement means that we have an inadequate understanding the factors that mediate their employment decisions, experiences and outcomes…
Studying Refugee Settlement through Longitudinal Research: Methodological and Ethical Insights from the Good Starts Study
Research involving resettled refugees raises methodological and ethical complexities. These complexities typically emerge within cross-sectional research that focuses on refugee experiences at a specific point in time. Given the long-term and dynamic nature of refugee settlement, longitudinal research is valuable, yet it raises distinct complexities within the research process. This article focuses on the methodological and ethical insights that …
Vietnamese Return Narratives in Australian Public Culture
In the period following the end of the Vietnam War (1975-), diasporic Vietnamese cultural producers have created diverse representations of Vietnam for both diasporic Vietnamese and western audiences outside of Vietnam. Often strongly nostalgic, these representations range from the California-based Paris by Night concerts that circulate in the diaspora by video to the many English-language memoirs that have become popular with a general readershi…
Spaces to Speak: Challenging Representations of Sudanese-Australians
In September 2007, Liep Gony, an 18-year-old Sudanese-Australian man, was assaulted in a suburb in Melbourne's outer south-east, later dying in hospital. Despite the fact that Gony was the victim and not the perpetrator of this tragedy, the subsequent media and political attention on gangs and violence focused overwhelmingly on young men with Sudanese backgrounds and became intertwined with broader claims about Sudanese communities' failure to se…
Examining Landscape Factors Influencing Relative Distribution of Mosquito Genera and Frequency of Virus Infection
Mosquito-borne infections cause some of the most debilitating human diseases, including yellow fever and malaria, yet we lack an understanding of how disease risk scales with human-driven habitat changes. We present an approach to study variation in mosquito distribution and concomitant viral infections on the landscape level. In a pilot study we analyzed mosquito distribution along a 10-km transect of a West African rainforest area, which includ…
Economic Problems of Agriculture in Industrial Societies: Proceedings of a Conference Held by the International Economic Association at Rome
Non-metropolitan productions of multiculturalism: Refugee settlement in rural Australia
In spite of the widespread backlash against multicultural policies, diversity remains a feature of globalized societies, requiring better understandings of how cultural difference is negotiated in rapidly transforming communities. Building on existing studies of multiculturalism in metropolitan contexts, we use interviews and ethnographic research to consider the transformation of a non-metropolitan community from a relatively homogeneous to an i…
Beyond integration: Football as a mobile, transnational sphere of belonging for refugee-background young people
Sport is widely utilised as an integration tool for refugee-background young people in resettlement countries, with a concomitant research focus on the implementation and outcomes of health and integration initiatives. However, a narrow focus on integration as the context and outcome of sport participation limits our understanding of the wider role sport plays as a sphere of belonging for refugee-background young people. By taking a wider view of…
Studying Refugee Settlement through Longitudinal Research: Methodological and Ethical Insights from the Good Starts Study
Research involving resettled refugees raises methodological and ethical complexities. These complexities typically emerge within cross-sectional research that focuses on refugee experiences at a specific point in time. Given the long-term and dynamic nature of refugee settlement, longitudinal research is valuable, yet it raises distinct complexities within the research process. This article focuses on the methodological and ethical insights that …
Spaces to Speak: Challenging Representations of Sudanese-Australians
In September 2007, Liep Gony, an 18-year-old Sudanese-Australian man, was assaulted in a suburb in Melbourne's outer south-east, later dying in hospital. Despite the fact that Gony was the victim and not the perpetrator of this tragedy, the subsequent media and political attention on gangs and violence focused overwhelmingly on young men with Sudanese backgrounds and became intertwined with broader claims about Sudanese communities' failure to se…
The participatory arts-based research project as an exceptional sphere of belonging
While belonging is rarely an explicit concern of participatory arts-based research (PABR), fostering inclusive relations is both an important condition for and outcome of PABR projects. Based on a participatory arts-based study with refugee-background young people in the United Kingdom and Australia, this article proposes five dimensions of PABR that mediate belonging within the project and shape possibilities for belonging beyond it: resources, …
I came to this country for a better life’: Factors mediating employment trajectories among young people who migrated to Australia as refugees during adolescence
Located at the intersection of two vulnerable groups in the contemporary labour market, young people who migrate as refugees during adolescence face a unique constellation of opportunities and challenges that shape their employment trajectories. Yet the tendency for research to focus on the early years of refugee settlement means that we have an inadequate understanding the factors that mediate their employment decisions, experiences and outcomes…
Navigating Precarious Terrains: Reconceptualizing Refugee-Youth Settlement
Settlement is widely understood as the final stage of the refugee journey: a durable solution to forced displacement and a stable environment in which former refugees can rebuild their lives. However, settlement is shaped by rapidly changing socio-political forces producing contingent, unpredictable, and even hostile environments. This article draws upon Vigh’s concept of social navigation to reconceptualize settlement as a continuation of a frau…
Translations-Generations: Representing and Producing Migration Generations Through Arts-Based Research
Migration generations play a central role in structuring and mediating relations in immigrant-background groups and are important conceptual categories for understanding how these groups change over time. Yet, in both research and practice, communicating the complexities of intergenerational relations and generational change can be challenging. Tacit, sensuous, affective and embodied aspects of generations frequently evade capture in conventional…
Return visits and belonging to countries of origin among young people from refugee backgrounds
In this article, we explore the return visits of resettled young people from refugee backgrounds to their personal and/or ancestral countries of origin. We draw on qualitative data from a longitudinal study of people who fled their country of origin at an early age, many of whom were born or lived for protracted periods in countries of asylum, and resettled in Australia. We demonstrate that return visits are not simply a homecoming; the young peo…
Promoting healthy futures in a rural refugee resettlement location: A community-based participatory research intervention
The resettlement of refugees in rural areas is presenting new challenges for healthcare. This article reports on a community-based participatory research project that explored understandings of health and care across the life course in a refugee-background community in regional south-east Australia. Participants identified key challenges, including lack of access to local services that address their complex needs and problems created by communica…
Participatory museum projects with refugee-background young people
Museums in the Global North have turned to participatory practices with traditionally marginalized groups in response to social and political pressures to become more inclusive and relevant and to confront their colonial pasts. One group which museums are increasingly seeking to engage is refugee-background young people, located at the intersection of two groups traditionally excluded from contributing to museological practice. However, while a w…
Working with/beyond ‘language’: Insights from a listening walk with young men from asylum-seeking backgrounds in a rural treescape
This article articulates the affordances and challenges of researching with and beyond language on a listening walk with young men from asylumseeking backgrounds in a rural treescape. Offering methodological and conceptual provocations for creative multilingual research, the article does not (re)present a traditional research encounter with fixed methodologies and confident findings. Rather, it stories a research encounter, anchored in participat…
Mapping entangled mobilities: Using participatory historical geography to explore the migration of objects and people across (neo)colonial spatialities
This paper examines how creative counter‐maps can be a valuable participatory historical geography tool in their capacity to render visible multiple pasts, presents, and futures, and offer new possibilities for representation and belonging through visual and creative aesthetics. Emerging from the Ancient History, Contemporary Belonging project, the paper explores the co‐creation of a participatory counter‐map, Unprovenanced Map , displayed in Man…
Calais Again
Calais Again is a digital story recounting a young man, Anas' experience of returning to France for the first time after migrating to the United Kingdom as a separated asylum-seeking child. Produced using biographical narrative and participatory arts-based research approaches, Calais Again was created as a rare self-authored contribution to Anas' personal archive of migration documents, and as a resource for communicating the multiple and multi-l…
Economic Problems of Agriculture in Industrial Societies: Proceedings of a Conference Held by the International Economic Association at Rome
Examining Landscape Factors Influencing Relative Distribution of Mosquito Genera and Frequency of Virus Infection
Mosquito-borne infections cause some of the most debilitating human diseases, including yellow fever and malaria, yet we lack an understanding of how disease risk scales with human-driven habitat changes. We present an approach to study variation in mosquito distribution and concomitant viral infections on the landscape level. In a pilot study we analyzed mosquito distribution along a 10-km transect of a West African rainforest area, which includ…
Vietnamese Return Narratives in Australian Public Culture
In the period following the end of the Vietnam War (1975-), diasporic Vietnamese cultural producers have created diverse representations of Vietnam for both diasporic Vietnamese and western audiences outside of Vietnam. Often strongly nostalgic, these representations range from the California-based Paris by Night concerts that circulate in the diaspora by video to the many English-language memoirs that have become popular with a general readershi…
Spaces to Speak: Challenging Representations of Sudanese-Australians
In September 2007, Liep Gony, an 18-year-old Sudanese-Australian man, was assaulted in a suburb in Melbourne's outer south-east, later dying in hospital. Despite the fact that Gony was the victim and not the perpetrator of this tragedy, the subsequent media and political attention on gangs and violence focused overwhelmingly on young men with Sudanese backgrounds and became intertwined with broader claims about Sudanese communities' failure to se…
I came to this country for a better life’: Factors mediating employment trajectories among young people who migrated to Australia as refugees during adolescence
Located at the intersection of two vulnerable groups in the contemporary labour market, young people who migrate as refugees during adolescence face a unique constellation of opportunities and challenges that shape their employment trajectories. Yet the tendency for research to focus on the early years of refugee settlement means that we have an inadequate understanding the factors that mediate their employment decisions, experiences and outcomes…
Studying Refugee Settlement through Longitudinal Research: Methodological and Ethical Insights from the Good Starts Study
Research involving resettled refugees raises methodological and ethical complexities. These complexities typically emerge within cross-sectional research that focuses on refugee experiences at a specific point in time. Given the long-term and dynamic nature of refugee settlement, longitudinal research is valuable, yet it raises distinct complexities within the research process. This article focuses on the methodological and ethical insights that …
Negotiating national (non)belongings: Vietnamese Australians in ethno/multicultural Australia
Many immigrant-receiving countries are characterised by increasing multigenerational ethnocultural diversity, with associated policies and discourses of inclusion. Yet they often simultaneously resist relinquishing narratives and practices grounded in idealised notions of ethnocultural homogeneity. This results in the circulation of multiple, often competing, ideas of the nation, with significant implications for national (non)belonging among mig…
Navigating Precarious Terrains: Reconceptualizing Refugee-Youth Settlement
Settlement is widely understood as the final stage of the refugee journey: a durable solution to forced displacement and a stable environment in which former refugees can rebuild their lives. However, settlement is shaped by rapidly changing socio-political forces producing contingent, unpredictable, and even hostile environments. This article draws upon Vigh’s concept of social navigation to reconceptualize settlement as a continuation of a frau…
Return visits and belonging to countries of origin among young people from refugee backgrounds
In this article, we explore the return visits of resettled young people from refugee backgrounds to their personal and/or ancestral countries of origin. We draw on qualitative data from a longitudinal study of people who fled their country of origin at an early age, many of whom were born or lived for protracted periods in countries of asylum, and resettled in Australia. We demonstrate that return visits are not simply a homecoming; the young peo…
Translations-Generations: Representing and Producing Migration Generations Through Arts-Based Research
Migration generations play a central role in structuring and mediating relations in immigrant-background groups and are important conceptual categories for understanding how these groups change over time. Yet, in both research and practice, communicating the complexities of intergenerational relations and generational change can be challenging. Tacit, sensuous, affective and embodied aspects of generations frequently evade capture in conventional…
Non-metropolitan productions of multiculturalism: Refugee settlement in rural Australia
In spite of the widespread backlash against multicultural policies, diversity remains a feature of globalized societies, requiring better understandings of how cultural difference is negotiated in rapidly transforming communities. Building on existing studies of multiculturalism in metropolitan contexts, we use interviews and ethnographic research to consider the transformation of a non-metropolitan community from a relatively homogeneous to an i…
Making Sense of Intersecting Crises: Promises, Challenges, and Possibilities of Intersectional Perspectives in Youth Research
Precarious Hope: Situated Perspectives on the Covid-19 Pandemic from Undergraduate Students in Manchester, UK
The COVID-19 pandemic has had a profound impact on the lives of young people, transforming and disrupting education provision, employment opportunities, social practices, mobilities, and experiences of health and well-being. In the UK context, the pandemic can be understood as both a unique event and as a further addition to the intersecting crises—including austerity and Brexit—that are increasingly shaping and constraining youth experiences and…
Mother tongue other tongue: Nine years of creative multilingualism in practice
This article assesses the impact over nine years of the Mother Tongue Other Tongue multilingual schools’ poetry competition led by Carol Ann Duffy from Manchester Metropolitan University, in which over 35,000 pupils from 77 schools have participated to date. It reviews evidence from a 2019 evaluation of the project and from a project anthology compiling several years of winning entries. The evidence suggests that the project is achieving its expe…
Beyond integration: Football as a mobile, transnational sphere of belonging for refugee-background young people
Sport is widely utilised as an integration tool for refugee-background young people in resettlement countries, with a concomitant research focus on the implementation and outcomes of health and integration initiatives. However, a narrow focus on integration as the context and outcome of sport participation limits our understanding of the wider role sport plays as a sphere of belonging for refugee-background young people. By taking a wider view of…
The participatory arts-based research project as an exceptional sphere of belonging
While belonging is rarely an explicit concern of participatory arts-based research (PABR), fostering inclusive relations is both an important condition for and outcome of PABR projects. Based on a participatory arts-based study with refugee-background young people in the United Kingdom and Australia, this article proposes five dimensions of PABR that mediate belonging within the project and shape possibilities for belonging beyond it: resources, …
Promoting healthy futures in a rural refugee resettlement location: A community-based participatory research intervention
The resettlement of refugees in rural areas is presenting new challenges for healthcare. This article reports on a community-based participatory research project that explored understandings of health and care across the life course in a refugee-background community in regional south-east Australia. Participants identified key challenges, including lack of access to local services that address their complex needs and problems created by communica…
Calais Again
Calais Again is a digital story recounting a young man, Anas' experience of returning to France for the first time after migrating to the United Kingdom as a separated asylum-seeking child. Produced using biographical narrative and participatory arts-based research approaches, Calais Again was created as a rare self-authored contribution to Anas' personal archive of migration documents, and as a resource for communicating the multiple and multi-l…
Participatory museum projects with refugee-background young people
Museums in the Global North have turned to participatory practices with traditionally marginalized groups in response to social and political pressures to become more inclusive and relevant and to confront their colonial pasts. One group which museums are increasingly seeking to engage is refugee-background young people, located at the intersection of two groups traditionally excluded from contributing to museological practice. However, while a w…
Working with/beyond ‘language’: Insights from a listening walk with young men from asylum-seeking backgrounds in a rural treescape
This article articulates the affordances and challenges of researching with and beyond language on a listening walk with young men from asylumseeking backgrounds in a rural treescape. Offering methodological and conceptual provocations for creative multilingual research, the article does not (re)present a traditional research encounter with fixed methodologies and confident findings. Rather, it stories a research encounter, anchored in participat…
Mapping entangled mobilities: Using participatory historical geography to explore the migration of objects and people across (neo)colonial spatialities
This paper examines how creative counter‐maps can be a valuable participatory historical geography tool in their capacity to render visible multiple pasts, presents, and futures, and offer new possibilities for representation and belonging through visual and creative aesthetics. Emerging from the Ancient History, Contemporary Belonging project, the paper explores the co‐creation of a participatory counter‐map, Unprovenanced Map , displayed in Man…
Sociology (20 works) · Political science (15 works) · Gender Studies (12 works) · Refugee (9 works) · Migration, Health and Trauma (8 works) · Social science (7 works) · Gender Studies (6 works) · Psychology (6 works) · Migration, Refugees, and Integration (5 works) · Politics (5 works)