TY - JOUR
T1 - Detour
T2 - bodies, memories, and mobilities in and around the home
AU - Ratnam, Charishma
AU - Drozdzewski, Danielle
PY - 2020
Y1 - 2020
N2 - The word detour denotes taking a different direction and/or a deviating pathway–especially from a considered norm. While the connotations of taking a detour are not always negative, the idea of movement away from, or against an assumed trajectory indicates a change in direction. In this paper, we pursue both what prompts this changed direction and the products of the detour itself. We follow the detours of Sri Lankan refugees and asylum seekers enacted during walk-along and in-depth interviews in their homes in Sydney, Australia. The walks provided opportunities for ‘talk’ with ‘encounter’; the embodied, emplaced, and habitual movements of the participants illuminated the interplay of memory with place. Their mobilities–across borders or through routine movements in everyday spaces–opened multiple conduits of encounter. We use the notion of detour to think with and think through their facilitating and ensuing mobilities, and their relationship to memory, identity, and place. Our theorisation of detour pushes mobilities scholarship further, by engaging with bodies, memories, and homes across multiple spatial, temporal, and lifecourse trajectories.
AB - The word detour denotes taking a different direction and/or a deviating pathway–especially from a considered norm. While the connotations of taking a detour are not always negative, the idea of movement away from, or against an assumed trajectory indicates a change in direction. In this paper, we pursue both what prompts this changed direction and the products of the detour itself. We follow the detours of Sri Lankan refugees and asylum seekers enacted during walk-along and in-depth interviews in their homes in Sydney, Australia. The walks provided opportunities for ‘talk’ with ‘encounter’; the embodied, emplaced, and habitual movements of the participants illuminated the interplay of memory with place. Their mobilities–across borders or through routine movements in everyday spaces–opened multiple conduits of encounter. We use the notion of detour to think with and think through their facilitating and ensuing mobilities, and their relationship to memory, identity, and place. Our theorisation of detour pushes mobilities scholarship further, by engaging with bodies, memories, and homes across multiple spatial, temporal, and lifecourse trajectories.
KW - Detour
KW - home
KW - memory
KW - mobility
KW - Sri Lankan refugees
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85086943610&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1080/17450101.2020.1780071
DO - 10.1080/17450101.2020.1780071
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85086943610
SN - 1745-0101
VL - 15
SP - 757
EP - 775
JO - Mobilities
JF - Mobilities
IS - 6
ER -