TY - JOUR
T1 - Walking Refrains for Storied Movement
AU - Powell, Kimberly
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I wish to acknowledge P. J. Hirabayashi, my community research partner on this project, and all of the community residents of San Jose Japantown, CA, who made this project possible. I also wish to acknowledge Stephanie Springgay, Sarah Truman, and Linda Knight for their generous support and feedback during the research and analysis phase of this project. The author(s) disclosed receipt of the following financial support for the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article: Funding for this research was made possible through a Partnership Grant of the Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada and through the Arts and Design Research Incubator, The Pennsylvania State University.
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https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3434-7689 Powell Kimberly 1 1 The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, USA Kimberly Powell, The Pennsylvania State University, 168 Chambers Building, University Park, PA 16802, USA. Email: kap17@psu.edu 12 2019 1532708619884975 © 2019 SAGE Publications 2019 SAGE Publications In this article, I describe my narrative walking project, StoryWalks, as a methodology that underscores the concept of movement in relation to place-based narratives. I describe several community member’s walking narratives, theorizing movement through Deleuze and Guattari’s concept of the refrain and through Donna Haraway’s concept of storytelling as open signification and materialization in order to think about the various ways in which walking with stories is an entanglement of memories, place-based inquiry, history, future goals, and imaginings that matter for an ethnic and racial politics of place, identity, and belonging. I highlight storytelling through walking as an affective production of political, social, and cultural formations within communities. arts based inquiry methods of inquiry counter-narrative Asian American studies ethnicity and race new methods & methodologies methodologies edited-state corrected-proof typesetter ts1 I wish to acknowledge P. J. Hirabayashi, my community research partner on this project, and all of the community residents of San Jose Japantown, CA, who made this project possible. I also wish to acknowledge Stephanie Springgay, Sarah Truman, and Linda Knight for their generous support and feedback during the research and analysis phase of this project. Declaration of Conflicting Interests The author(s) declared no potential conflicts of interest with respect to the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article. Funding The author(s) disclosed receipt of the following financial support for the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article: Funding for this research was made possible through a Partnership Grant of the Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada and through the Arts and Design Research Incubator, The Pennsylvania State University. ORCID iD Kimberly Powell https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3434-7689
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PY - 2020/2/1
Y1 - 2020/2/1
N2 - In this article, I describe my narrative walking project, StoryWalks, as a methodology that underscores the concept of movement in relation to place-based narratives. I describe several community member’s walking narratives, theorizing movement through Deleuze and Guattari’s concept of the refrain and through Donna Haraway’s concept of storytelling as open signification and materialization in order to think about the various ways in which walking with stories is an entanglement of memories, place-based inquiry, history, future goals, and imaginings that matter for an ethnic and racial politics of place, identity, and belonging. I highlight storytelling through walking as an affective production of political, social, and cultural formations within communities.
AB - In this article, I describe my narrative walking project, StoryWalks, as a methodology that underscores the concept of movement in relation to place-based narratives. I describe several community member’s walking narratives, theorizing movement through Deleuze and Guattari’s concept of the refrain and through Donna Haraway’s concept of storytelling as open signification and materialization in order to think about the various ways in which walking with stories is an entanglement of memories, place-based inquiry, history, future goals, and imaginings that matter for an ethnic and racial politics of place, identity, and belonging. I highlight storytelling through walking as an affective production of political, social, and cultural formations within communities.
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U2 - 10.1177/1532708619884975
DO - 10.1177/1532708619884975
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85077084708
SN - 1532-7086
VL - 20
SP - 35
EP - 42
JO - Cultural Studies - Critical Methodologies
JF - Cultural Studies - Critical Methodologies
IS - 1
ER -