Complicating author-itative histories of change: acts of narration, sounding and visualisation

Activity: Talk or presentation typesOral presentation

Description

Thanks for this opportunity to share some of our thinking that led us to explore creative arts methods in our current project.

We are talking about these methods as ways and means of interruption, perhaps disruption to critique dominant narratives, but also to point to existing (albeit marginalised) narratives, practices and histories of change in a specific bounded context. You’ll notice that we’ve played with the word authoritative and the word ‘author’ within it, and also emphasized ‘acts’ in the subtitle, to give a sense that the agential sits within these structures and cultures. We come from different disciplinary lenses and backgrounds, and the project is just at its beginning. However, criticality about how people are constituted, may resist, play or collude with power, is a central question to this project.

While the arts and visual/ sound/ narrative may be characterised as ‘innovative’ or ‘more authentic’, ‘closer to the ground’ or ‘outside of the mainstream’, we have a sceptical relation to them as forms of representation.

We are situating this talk within the impetus of this in progress project (Counter-stories of author-ity in transition: Women in the Indian Academy) – as a direct intervention to oppressive dynamics of legitimation and erasure within the representation of plural histories within; centring intellectual histories and subjectivity, in a country that has long been active in its wrangles with power, autonomy, justice, and democracy.
Period15 Mar 2024
Event titleCreative arts methods and Inter-disciplinary research (Centre for Inclusion, Transformation and Equality)
Event typeSeminar
LocationBelfast, United KingdomShow on map
Degree of RecognitionLocal