Introduction

Towards Migration-Violence Creative Pathways

Bibliographic Data

ID3606261
AuthorsCathy Mcilwaine (0000-0001-6528-599X), Megan Ryburn (0000-0003-4674-7233)
Year2024
Volume50
Issue13
Pages3229-3251
Publication date2024-08-08
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueNew Community (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0047-9586 • E-ISSN: 1469-9451
PublisherInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/1369183x.2024.2345988
OpenAlexW4396673317
LanguageEN
Citations received8
References cited106

This introduction to the special issue on 'Arts-based approaches, migration and violence: intersectional and creative perspectives' highlights the complexities and paradoxes in relation to existing debates in the field. Drawing on the emerging body of rich work that has recognised the importance of arts-based approaches within research on migration and violence, the introduction provides a critical assessment of the nature of the connections between the two in methodological, empirical and conceptual ways. It explores these intersections across multiple geographical scales, temporalities and imaginations through innovative creative research. In contributing to these debates, the introduction and the papers included in this special issue examine the potential for new insights, understanding and transformations to emerge through engaging with visual, performative, visceral, embodied and collaborative arts-based research. Yet, it also addresses some epistemological and ethical concerns including tensions around participation, positionality, co-production and the decolonisation of research. The introduction also aims to move beyond evaluating the benefits and drawbacks of arts-based approaches and provides a conceptual frame delineated as 'migration-violence creative pathways' that emphasise feminist and embodied perspectives. The frame does not prescribe how to engage with the creative arts, but rather encapsulates the variety of ways to do so. Finally, we set out an agenda for future creative research on migration-violence connections that highlights some practical, epistemological and conceptual suggestions for critically and productively engaging with arts-based approaches

Conceptual framework · Embodied cognition · Epistemology · Performative utterance · Political science · Social science · Sociology · Temporalities · The arts · Variety (cybernetics · Diaspora, migration, transnational identity · Migration, Refugees, and Integration · Sex work and related issues

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