Staging Presence for Spatial Dignity
Exploring Representations of Refugee Girlhood
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12975123 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Margaret Ravenscroft (0009-0007-0453-843X, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2024 |
| Volume | 17 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 18-35 |
| Publication date | 2024-03-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Girlhood Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1938-8209 • E-ISSN: 1938-8322 |
| Publisher | Berghahn Books (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.3167/ghs.2024.170104 |
| OpenAlex | W4392455179 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 14 |
In exploring the figuration and physical presence of Little Amal, a 12-foot Syrian girl puppet and main character in a moving piece of epic public theater titled The Walk, I consider the dueling realities of welcomeness and unwantedness, hypervisibility and invisibility, spatial dignity and spatial denial faced by refugee girls, real and represented. Accessing a feminist refugee epistemology, I position Amal in contrast to yet another symbol of refugee girlhood—popstar M.I.A.—to move away from the typical simultaneously superfluous and stunted representations of sanctuary-seeking girls and toward a provocation that accepts their creative and complex lifeworlds
Dignity · Environmental ethics · Political science · Sociology · Law · Patient Dignity and Privacy · Philosophy · Psychology
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