Contact zones: participation, materiality, and the messiness of interaction
Contact zones: participation, materiality, and the messiness of interaction
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DOI：
10.1068/d11109
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发表时间：
2011-10-01
影响因子：
3.8
通讯作者：
Pain, Rachel
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作者：
Askins, Kye;Pain, Rachel
最近围绕城市相遇、一体化世界主义和重新接触接触理论的辩论引发了关于互动空间的问题，这些互动空间可能会使不同社会群体之间有意义的接触。反思英格兰东北部一个与非洲和英国血统的年轻人一起参与的艺术项目，我们认为，围绕参与性行动研究的讨论和实践，包括部署接触区作为理论和方法，可以为促进变革性空间的因素提供一些启示。通过分析项目中使用的两种不同的社区艺术方式，我们展示了每种方式的元素如何使年轻人之间有意义的互动。我们提请注意艺术(工具)在参与实践(它的实施)中的物质性，为可能发生互动的空间做出贡献，强调演员、材料和空间之间/跨行为者、材料和空间之间的复杂相互作用，将遭遇框定为紧急、短暂、脆弱和充满希望的。在考虑对研究和政策的影响之前，我们考察了关注材料的潜力，超越了相遇的时刻，思考如何将变革性的社会关系‘放大’。
Recent debates around urban encounter, integration cosmopolitanism, and renewed engagement with contact theory have raised questions about the spaces of interaction that may enable meaningful encounters between different social groups. Reflecting on a participatory art project with young people of African and British heritage in northeast England, we argue that discussion and practice around participatory action research, including the deployment of contact zones as theory and method, can cast some light on what fosters transformative spaces. Through analysis of two different approaches to community art used in the project, we show how elements of each enabled and disabled meaningful interaction between young people. We draw attention to the materiality of art (the tools) within participatory practices (the doing of it) in contributing to a space where interactions might take place, emphasising a complex interplay across/between actors, materials, and space that frames encounters as emergent, transitory, fragile, and yet hopeful. We examine the potential of a focus on the material in thinking beyond moments of encounter to how transformative social relations may be 'scaled up' before considering the implications for research and policy.