Dear Anth Matters members,
Please find information below on a workshop of potential interest.
All good wishes
Katherine
Professor Katherine Brickell
Professor of Human Geography
Department of Geography
Royal Holloway, University of London
Egham
Surrey TW20 0EX
Email: [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>
Twitter: @k_brickell
Tel: 01784-443563
Fax: 01784-472836
CALL FOR PARTICIPATION
Global Challenges’ Creative Turn: A workshop exploring the possibilities and practicalities of creative research methods and practices in the Global South
Friday 19th October 2018, 9.30am-5.30pm, Woburn Room, Senate House, University of London, Malet St, Bloomsbury, London WC1E 7HU
One of the goals of the UK’s Global Challenges Research Fund<https://www.ukri.org/research/global-challenges-research-fund/> is to stimulate cross-research council research practices that see social scientists collaborating with arts and humanities researchers, and bringing methods and practices from the arts and humanities to bear on urgent problems in the Global South.
Yet for many social scientists – from Geographers to Development Scholars – the possibilities but also the challenges of using arts and humanities, and specifically creative research methods and practices are not always clear. In the workshop a series of activities, talks, and panels aims to address this.
The workshop builds on what has been called the ‘Creative Turn’. Geography’s creative turn, like that within sociology, archeology and anthropology, has seen a range of different relations between research and creative practices (art, creative writing, theatre, photography, film-making and so on). These include scholars, commissioning artists and photographers to make work in response to their research; researchers who use creative practices as part of participatory research (video, street theatre, photography); the incorporation of creative practitioners as part of the research team, valuing their knowledge making as part of the research process; as well as researchers who develop their own creative skills (photography, drawing, dancing) as part of their research methods.
This workshop will introduce a series of examples of the ‘Creative Turn’ in Global South research and use these to explore the possibilities of these research practices; the challenges and pitfalls that researchers might face; as well as some of the practicalities of applying for and doing this kind of research.
Issues to be addressed will include:
The place of creative practice in research
Issues of Ethics- research ethics and ethical conduct for researchers in working with practitioners
Creative Practices and research impact
Challenges and benefits of collaboration
Negotiating institutions
This workshop is a collaboration between researchers in the Department for Geography, Royal Holloway, University of London: namely, the ESRC-DFID funded study ‘Blood Bricks: Examining the Climate Change-Modern Slavery Nexus in the Cambodian Construction Industry' <https://www.projectbloodbricks.org/> and the Centre for the GeoHumanities<https://intranet.royalholloway.ac.uk/geography/centre-for-geohumanities/home.aspx?>.
The event will include a visit to The Building Centr<https://www.buildingcentre.co.uk/>e and discussion of the exhibition ‘Blood Bricks: Untold Stories of Modern Slavery and Climate Change from Cambodia’. We are delighted that the project’s photographer and videographer Thomas Cristofoletti<https://www.thomascristofoletti.com/> will be joining us for the event from Cambodia. The workshop will include time to reflect with Thomas and the rest of the project team on the development of the exhibition.
We have a limited number of places available and are therefore asking for expressions of interest to be emailed to Nithya Natarajan ([log in to unmask])<mailto:[log in to unmask])> by 6th August 2018. We welcome both academics and practitioners to attend. Please submit a short bio and an introduction which should explain why you would like to attend (up to a maximum of 250 words for each).
For more information see https://www.projectbloodbricks.org/events/2018/7/2/global-challenges-creative-turn-a-workshop-exploring-the-possibilities-and-practicalities-of-creative-research-methods-and-practices-in-the-global-south and on Twitter @Blood_Bricks
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