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Sensory geographies and defamiliarisation: migrant women encounter Brighton Beach

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posted on 2023-06-08, 22:26 authored by Sally Munt
This article’s starting point is a sensory, reflexive walk taken on Brighton seafront and beach, by fourteen migrant women and some of their children. It goes on to open up a wider discussion about the cultural politics and affective resonances, for refugees and migrants, of beaches. By discussing their sensory experiences of the beach, we begin to understand their ‘ostranenie’, or defamiliarisation, of making the familiar strange. We also see how evocative such sense-making can be, as the women compare their past lives to this, perceiving their lifeworld through a filter of migrancy. The article goes onto discuss the broader cultural symbolism of beaches, which are a site of contestation over national values, boundaries, and belonging. As well as discussing sensory methodology in this article, and explaining the locale of Brighton Beach itself, it concludes with some wider thinking of the cultural politics of beach spaces and migrant perceptions.

Funding

Cultural Values from the Subaltern Perspective: A Phenomenology of Refugees' Experience of British Cultural Values; G1151; AHRC-ARTS & HUMANITIES RESEARCH COUNCIL; AH/L005409/1

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Publication status

  • Published

File Version

  • Accepted version

Journal

Gender, Place and Culture

ISSN

0966-369X

Publisher

Routledge/Taylor and Francis

Issue

8

Volume

23

Page range

1093-1106

Department affiliated with

  • Media and Film Publications

Full text available

  • Yes

Peer reviewed?

  • Yes

Legacy Posted Date

2015-09-18

First Open Access (FOA) Date

2016-10-10

First Compliant Deposit (FCD) Date

2015-09-18

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