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The participatory arts-based research project as an exceptional sphere of belonging

Journal

QUALITATIVE RESEARCH
Volume 22, Issue 2, Pages 251-268

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SAGE PUBLICATIONS LTD
DOI: 10.1177/1468794120980971

Keywords

Arts-based research; participatory research; belonging; refugee; youth

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  1. Marie Sklodowska-Curie actions/Durham University COFUND International Junior Research Fellowship

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This study presents five dimensions that mediate and shape a sense of belonging in participatory arts-based research with refugee-background young people. It acknowledges the transformative potential of participation, arts, and research, and contributes to a better understanding of this potential.
While belonging is rarely an explicit concern of participatory arts-based research (PABR), fostering inclusive relations is both an important condition for and outcome of PABR projects. Based on a participatory arts-based study with refugee-background young people in the United Kingdom and Australia, this article proposes five dimensions of PABR that mediate belonging within the project and shape possibilities for belonging beyond it: resources, relations, reflection, representation and recognition. Acknowledging the possibilities for transformative belonging emerging from PABR's unique combination of participation, arts and research, this article draws on Bourdieu's framing of the research interview as an 'exceptional situation for communication' to conceptualise the PABR project as an exceptional sphere of belonging. Attending to (non)belonging in participatory arts-based research projects facilitates new insights into the practical, affective, embodied, socio-cultural and ethical relations that they produce and makes an important contribution to our understanding of PABR's much lauded - but less well evidenced - transformative potential.

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