Moving global horizons

Imagining selfhood, mobility and futurities through creative practice in ethnographic research

Bibliographic Data

ID19004639
AuthorsJohannes Sjöberg (0000-0002-2817-1034, Drama, SALC, University of Manchester, United Kingdom, corresponding author), Alexandra D’onofrio (0000-0002-1344-2962, Keele University)
Year2020
Volume26
Issue4
Pages732-748
Publication date2020-05-28
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueCulture & Psychology (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1354-067X • E-ISSN: 1461-7056
PublisherSAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/1354067x20922141
OpenAlexW3029412951
LanguageEN
Citations received5
References cited18

This article explores imagined selfhood, mobility and futurities through creative practice in ethnography. Globalisation allows people with varying socio-economic and geographical backgrounds to imagine themselves with more possibilities. How can creative practice such as improvisation in ethnofictions, storytelling and participatory animation be applied in ethnographic research to explore the imaginary realm of selfhood and expectations on being elsewhere? Drawing on fieldwork on migration from Africa to Europe, Brazilian transgender mobility and British youth in environmental transformation, the article will show how existential immobility inspires production of global horizons through imagination

Aesthetics · Art · Epistemology · Ethnography · Existentialism · Globalization · Improvisation · Literature · Narrative · Political science · Psychoanalysis · Realm · Sociology · Storytelling · The Imaginary · Visual arts · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Anthropology · Gender Studies · Geographies of human-animal interactions · History · Posthumanist Ethics and Activism · Psychology

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