Anchoring Belonging Through Material Practices in Participatory Arts-Based Research

Abstract: How do people understand belonging and what kinds of stances toward belonging do they take? What kind of knowledge or ways of knowing (EISNER, 2008) does artistic practice yield about belonging? We ask these questions in this article, which is based on the research project Crossing Borders, in which we used participatory arts-based methods to study belonging. We invited participants to explore the notion of belonging in three parallel workshops drawing on different art forms, film, writing and visual arts. The goal of the workshops was for each participant to produce an artwork that deals with belonging.In the article, we identify four stances that the participants expressed toward the concept of belonging and explore the ways in which their ideas were manifested in the artworks. We analyze the workshop discussions, the participants' interviews and the artworks, and demonstrate on both the conceptual and material level that artistic practice can provide extremely nuanced and situat

Object Details

• Alternative title: Die Nutzung materieller Praktiken zur Verankerung von Zugehörigkeit in der partizipativen kunstbasierten Forschung
• Location: Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Frankfurt am Main
• Extent: Online-Ressource
• Language: Englisch
• Notes: Veröffentlichungsversion ; begutachtet (peer reviewed) ; In: Forum Qualitative Sozialforschung / Forum: Qualitative Social Research ; 21 (2020) 2 ; 28

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (where): Mannheim
• (who): SSOAR, GESIS – Leibniz-Institut für Sozialwissenschaften e.V.
• (when): 2020
• Creator: Hiltunen, Kaisa Elisabet ; Sääskilahti, Nina Elina ; Vallius, Antti Samuli ; Pöyhönen, Sari Hannele Elisabet ; Jäntti, Saara Johanna ; Saresma, Tuija Anna Marjatta

Further information

• DOI: 10.17169/fqs-21.2.3403
• URN: urn:nbn:de:101:1-2021101213073392679161
• Rights: Open Access; Der Zugriff auf das Objekt ist unbeschränkt möglich.
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