Exploring cultures of belonging in Darwin, Australia
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posted on 2024-06-03, 13:36authored byMA Lobo
This paper argues that the use of visual methods such as participatory video is crucial to co-producing sensory and embodied knowledges of belonging in Australian cities. These knowledges of belonging that focus on affectivity and passion have the potential to expand the worlds that racialised bodies of colour inhabit, but contemporary urban research shows an overwhelming focus on ‘talk’. This paper therefore takes the risk by engaging in a research process that is experimental, flexible and adaptive to explore diverse sensory cultures of belonging through a focus on Darwin, a small north Australian city. This is a city with a polyethnic history where Indigenous-migrant-settler race relations are recognised as more complex in comparison to large south Australian cities. The paper draws on participatory videos of two events in suburban Darwin - a Vigil on the side of the road opposite Airport Lodge, an asylum seeker detention centre, and an afternoon walk along Casuarina beach where Aboriginals who live ‘rough’ camp. Using short video clips, long-term residents, migrant newcomers and asylum seekers (on bridging visas) compose an expressive narrative of the road and beach in Darwin, as places where refrains of welcome expand worlds that racialised bodies of colour inhabit. Using digital technologies the flow and juxtaposition of video clips of these events provides the possibility to craft sensory and embodied knowledges of belonging in a north Australian city with a history of assimilationist and racially discriminatory policies.
History
Pagination
1-16
Location
Gold Coast, Qld
Start date
2015-12-09
End date
2015-12-11
ISBN-13
978-1-925455-03-8
Indigenous content
This research output may contain the names and images of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people now deceased. We apologise for any distress that may occur.
Language
eng
Publication classification
E1 Full written paper - refereed
Copyright notice
2015, Urban Research Program at Griffith University on behalf of the Australian Cities Research Network
Editor/Contributor(s)
Burton P, Shearer H
Title of proceedings
SOAC 2015 : Urban Cultures : Proceedings of the State of Australian Cities 2015 Conference
Event
State of Australian Cities. Conference (2015 : Gold Coast, Qld)
Publisher
Urban Research Program at Griffith University on behalf of the Australian Cities Research Network