Starting from elsewhere storytelling and telling geographical stories
Organised by the discipline of Geography & Environmental Studies
Speakers:
Claire Wellesley Smith: Stitching the City
Edward Wigley: in-between purity and pollution: wudu, encounters and emotions
Gunjan Sondhi: Re-placing migrant women in early 20th Century England
Chair: Sonja Rewhorn
This session forms part of the Open Geographies research conversations that explore how thinking spatially opens up different ways of making sense of the politics of the present. It offers us provocations to consider how radically different notions of openness (and closure) are being articulated through various cultural and political projects, experiments, movements, and resistances – and asking: What’s at stake?
One avenue into this exploration is to seek for openings for new modes of engagement through creative practice, open public geographies, and political praxis. The panel explores and reflects on how starting from elsewhere – beyond the canonical and familiar ways of research and knowledge production, and using creative method of exploring storytelling can enable us to tell geographical stories. Storytelling to tell geographical stories centre the role of place and spatial thinking to offer us innovative points of entry into examining the politics of the present.