Walking with: understandings and negotiations of the mundane in research

IF 2.1 2区 文学 0 LANGUAGE & LINGUISTICS
Jessica Mary Bradley, Sari Pöyhönen
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Disruptions, and indeed spectacular disruptions, are understood and experienced by people in many different ways. They serve to both highlight and embed deep-rooted inequalities, changing experiences of the everyday and even challenging the very right to have an everyday. In this joint article we critically engage with conceptualisations of the mundane, exploring how people negotiate everyday life in contexts of unprecedented change. We take up Georges Perec’s call to take account of the everyday, focusing on examples from two ethnographically informed projects, both of which engage with creative practice. The first is long-term research in forced migration settings in North-Western Finland, which explores how people negotiate and re-negotiate linguistic citizenship and everyday life, in a policy context which restricts and limits. The second is a community arts and wellbeing project in the North of England, which investigated creative approaches to re-emergence from the Covid19 pandemic among people who had been particularly affected by isolation, including new mothers. In both projects, our data are drawn from fieldnotes from observations, reflections from our own participation, interviews and creative artefacts made by participants. In our analysis and discussion, we foreground ephemeral everyday moments and how individuals aim to hold up the mundane in the middle of major, internal and international crises. We consider how the ‘right to an everyday’ is central to understandings of being human, and draw on these experiences to show how ethnographic research, with particular emphasis on language(s) and creative practice, can shed light on lived experiences of the mundane and unequal experiences of and rights to the everyday.
同行:研究中对世俗的理解和协商
人们以许多不同的方式理解和体验破坏,实际上是壮观的破坏。它们既凸显了根深蒂固的不平等现象,又使之根深蒂固,改变了人们的日常生活体验,甚至挑战了人们拥有日常生活的权利。在这篇联合撰写的文章中,我们批判性地探讨了 "平凡 "的概念,探讨了人们如何在前所未有的变革背景下协商日常生活。我们响应乔治-佩雷克(Georges Perec)关于考虑日常生活的号召,重点关注两个民族志项目中的实例,这两个项目都与创造性实践有关。第一个项目是在芬兰西北部的强迫移民环境中进行的长期研究,探讨了在限制和约束的政策背景下,人们如何协商和重新协商语言公民身份和日常生活。第二个项目是在英格兰北部开展的社区艺术与福祉项目,该项目调查了受隔离影响特别严重的人群(包括新妈妈)从科维德19 大流行病中重新崛起的创造性方法。在这两个项目中,我们的数据都来自于实地观察记录、我们自己的参与反思、访谈以及参与者制作的创意工艺品。在我们的分析和讨论中,我们强调了短暂的日常时刻,以及个人如何在重大的国内和国际危机中保持平凡。我们考虑了 "日常权利 "是如何成为理解人类的核心的,并利用这些经验来说明人种学研究,特别是强调语言和创造性实践的研究,是如何揭示日常的生活经验以及日常的不平等经验和权利的。
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