Contact Zones
Participation, Materiality, and the Messiness of Interaction
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4476217 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Kye Askins (0000-0002-3013-7978, Northumbria University, corresponding author), Rachel Pain (0000-0002-0411-0528, Durham University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2011 |
| Volume | 29 |
| Issue | 5 |
| Pages | 803-821 |
| Publication date | 2011-10-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Environment and Planning D Society and Space (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0263-7758 • E-ISSN: 1472-3433 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1068/d11109 |
| OpenAlex | W2163702345 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 224 |
| References cited | 61 |
Recent debates around urban encounter, integration cosmopolitanism, and renewed engagement with contact theory have raised questions about the spaces of interaction that may enable meaningful encounters between different social groups. Reflecting on a participatory art project with young people of African and British heritage in northeast England, we argue that discussion and practice around participatory action research, including the deployment of contact zones as theory and method, can cast some light on what fosters transformative spaces. Through analysis of two different approaches to community art used in the project, we show how elements of each enabled and disabled meaningful interaction between young people. We draw attention to the materiality of art (the tools) within participatory practices (the doing of it) in contributing to a space where interactions might take place, emphasising a complex interplay across/between actors, materials, and space that frames encounters as emergent, transitory, fragile, and yet hopeful. We examine the potential of a focus on the material in thinking beyond moments of encounter to how transformative social relations may be 'scaled up' before considering the implications for research and policy
Aesthetics · Art · Citizen journalism · Epistemology · Materiality (auditing · Participatory action research · Pedagogy · Political science · Social relation · Social science · Sociology · Transformative learning · Anthropology · Children's Rights and Participation · Participatory Visual Research Methods · Youth Education and Societal Dynamics
The New Geopolitics of Fear
What happens at the gap between knowledge and practice? Spaces of encounter and misencounter between environmental scientists and local people
Digital inequalities in time of pandemic
Straight time in the (post)apocalypse
Participatory Geographies
Meetings of the Art
Geographies of welcome
Can a Park Save the City
Geographies of Encounter, Public Space, and Social Cohesion
Crafting Recognition
Can community festivals make urban places more hospitable
Where different abilities meet
The emotional element of urban densification
Festivals, public space and cultural inclusion
Kurdish women’s interactions in European urban public space and the extent of their social integration
European public space projects with social cohesion in mind
‘Our stories were pretty weird too’ – Children as creators of a shared narrative culture in an intercultural story and drawing exchange
“Just to make new friends and play with other children”
Created, Initiated and Maintained
The ethnographic novel as activist mode of existence
GeoHumanities and Health
Gesellschaftlicher Zusammenhalt
Drawing in’ other worlds
Neighbourhood participation in super-diverse contexts
Belonging and collaborative language-and-arts research with forced migrants in Hong Kong
‘It Was Only When I Came Here that I Learned about Walking’
Stitching People Together
Everyday Hospitality and Politics
Qualitative visualisation – perspectives and potentials for population geography
Rural Geographies of Refugee Activism
Living With Difference – Interventions for Just Cities
Engaging with feminist postcolonial concerns through participatory action research and intersectionality
Making Contact in an exhibition zone
Vulnerable Spaces of Coproduction
The Making of a Conservation Landscape
Children's Participation, Childhood Publics and Social Change
More than Data Collectors
Digital platforms as contact zones
Social contact and encounter in asylum seeker reception
Saying It Like It Is? Power, Participation and Research Involving Young People
Climate change politics and the urban contexts of messy governmentalities
Infrastructural contact zones
It Really Put a Change on Me”
Lived environmentalisms
Mapping microbial stories
Beyond the deliberative subject? Problems of theory, method and critique in the turn to emotion and affect
Bounded recognition
Arts, place, and sacrifice zones
Game-Based Technique for Studying Identity Change in Disturbed Communities
Participatory museum projects with refugee-background young people
Rethinking Transnational Places as Migratory Ecotones
Multiculture and Public Parks
Reflections on Migration, Community, and Place
Disjunctures of belonging and belief
From Anti-Homosexuality to Gay-Friendly Festival? Festive Culture, Cultural Policies and Inclusion and Exclusion of the LGBTQIA + Collective in the Fallas of València
Childhood narratives
You don’t realise they’re helping you until you realise they’re helping you’
Childhood publics in search of an audience
Unsettling the aesthetics of air travel through participatory tourist photography
How do you critique activists? Some reflections on doing environmentalism badly
Navigating Contact Zones in 21st Century Schools
A cybergeography of public art encounter
Off the wall’
Exploring young people's and youth workers' experiences of spaces for ‘youth development’
Going in, out, through
Contested narratives of encounter from a bridge-building project in northern England
Participatory video and diagramming with disabled people in Burkina Faso
Spaces of safety and more-than-safety in women’s refuges in England
Doing gender and the GeoHumanities – celebrations and intoxications
Dwelling activism
Institutional work by migrant women leaders in precarious spaces of volunteering in Melbourne, Australia
Creating queer safe space
Micropolitics in collective learning spaces for adaptive decision making
Caution, we have power’
I Am a New Zealand Citizen Now—This Is My Home’
Young People, Big Voices, Bangkok Noi
The creative landscape of theatre–research cooperation
From Big Society to Shared Society? Geographies of social cohesion and encounter in the UK’s National Citizen Service
Berwick-Barcelona
Productive tensions—engaging geography students in participatory action research with communities
Borderland spaces for learning partnership
Courageous and compassionate teaching
Crossing the qualitative-quantitative chasm I
Inviting the stranger in
A feminist politics of parody for geographical research
The relational geographies of the voluntary sector
Geographies of children and youth III
Participatory art and geography
Re-orienting geographies of urban diversity and coexistence
Crossing the qualitative-quantitative chasm III
Indigenous geographies II
Just as much as there is Islamophobia, there is racism
Shared spaces, separate places
Into the borderlands
Narrations on intercultural experiences in South African contact zones
Building Communities in Tense Times
Unconsented Sterilisation, Participatory Story‐Telling, and Digital Counter‐Memory in Peru
Empathy at Knifepoint
Encountering Poverty
Contesting Neoliberal Urbanism in Glasgow's Community Gardens
The new countryside?Ethnicity, nation and exclusion in contemporary rural Britain
Imperial Eyes
Myth of Community
Geographies of Nature
The Social Life of Things
Scaling Segregation; Racialising Fear
Art and community development
Fear
New Geographies of Race and Racism
Visual Interventions
Participatory Action Research
Participatory Action Research Approaches and Methods
Reassembling the Social
Theorising narratives of exile and belonging
Hanoi 5000 Hoan Kiem Lakes
The Personal is Political
Women's voices from the rainforest
Exploring and Implementing Participatory Action Research
Women/gender/feminisms
Globalized fear? Towards an emotional geopolitics
Geographies of food
Subjectivities, knowledges and feminist geographies
Craven Emotional Warriors
Moments in everyday/distant geopolitics
Wardrobe matter
Participatory action research in a poststructuralist vein
Matter(s) in social and cultural geography
Reflections on participatory research
Participatory video in geographic research
In and beyond the classroom
Materialising bodily matter
Geography and gender
Cultural geography
Matter(s) of interest
After Method
Bodies that matter
Social geography
Cold shoulders and napkins handed
Evaluating participatory development
Material worlds? Resource geographies and the `matter of nature
A single day's walking
Living with difference
Spatialising Participatory Approaches
Rematerializing social and cultural geography
The Intercorporeal Emergence of Landscape
Ethnicity and the Multicultural City
Geographies of art and the environment
Singaporean and British transmigrants in China and the cultural politics of 'contact zones
Border work in the contact zone
Cultural geographies of the contact zone
Research with children
Bodies That Matter
| Unique citing works | 224 |
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| Citations per year | 14 |
| Citation span | 2010 - 2026 (17) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | Yes |
| Citation types | Neutral: 220 |