Walking along in sticky places: post-humanist and affective insights from a reflective account of two young women in Manchester, UK. (3rd May 2020)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Badwan, Khawla; Hall, Elisha
• Is Part Of: Language & intercultural communication. Volume 20:Number 3(2020)
• Page Start: 225
• Page End: 239
• Publication Date: 2020-05-03
• Subjects: Posthumanism -- cultural blocks and threads -- emotions and affect -- walk along -- decentring intercultural research; Language and languages -- Study and teaching -- Periodicals; Intercultural communication -- Periodicals; 306.4405
• DOI: 10.1080/14708477.2020.1715995
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1470-8477

Abstract

ABSTRACT: This article reports on a reflective account of a walk-along that brought together a researcher and a participant who visited the Curry Mile (Wilmslow Road) in Manchester, UK. It focuses on places, emotions and materiality in intercultural research in order to understand how 'things make people happen'. Drawing on the interplay of 'post-humanism', emotions in 'sticky' places, and 'cultural threads and blocks', this paper explores how decentring intercultural research facilitates new ways of coming together, allows the construction of cultural threads, and enables creative and reflective engagement.