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    Walking along in sticky places: post-humanist and affective insights from a reflective account of two young women in Manchester, UK

    Badwan, Khawla ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1808-724X and Hall, Elisha (2020) Walking along in sticky places: post-humanist and affective insights from a reflective account of two young women in Manchester, UK. Language and Intercultural Communication, 20 (3). pp. 225-239. ISSN 1470-8477

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    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’ (Kell, 2015, p. 442). Drawing on the interplay of ‘post-humanism’ (Pennycook, 2018), emotions in ‘sticky’ places (Ahmed, 2004, 2014; Laketa, 2018), and ‘cultural threads and blocks’ (Holliday, 2016), 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.

    Item Type: Article
    Peer-reviewed: Yes
    Date Deposited: 10 Jan 2020 11:38
    Publisher: Taylor & Francis (Routledge)
    Additional Information: This is an Author Accepted Manuscript accepted for publication by Taylor & Francis in Language and Intercultural Communication. © 2020 Informa UK Limited.
    Divisions: Faculties > Arts and Humanities
    Research Centres > Creative Writing, English Literature and Linguistics
    Subject terms: Decentring intercultural research, Posthumanism, Emotions and affect, Walking-along, Sticky places, Cultural threads and blocks, 1702 Cognitive Sciences, 2004 Linguistics
    URI: https://e-space.mmu.ac.uk/id/eprint/624749
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/14708477.2020.1715995
    ISSN 1470-8477

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