The lecture will be given by Katherine Brickell, Royal Holloway University of London, UK
In this lecture I share new insights and thoughts on the ‘doing’ of creative practice for representing and communicating lived experiences of slow violence. Based on two studies in Cambodia which both harnessed creative practice in their methodologies, I focus specifically on the slow violence of over-indebtedness impacting garment workers and farmers during, but also pre-dating, the COVID-19 pandemic. In the lecture I intentionally ‘make space’ for the filmmaking by the Ruom Collective and portraiture photography by Sophal Neak to be viewed by the audience. The lecture works to underscore the dual value of paying greater attention in geographical research both to the ‘doing’ of creative practice and its myriad politics, and what can be learned through creative practice about the political geographies of slow violence experienced in people’s lives.
In this lecture I share new insights and thoughts on the ‘doing’ of creative practice for representing and communicating lived experiences of slow violence. Based on two studies in Cambodia which both harnessed creative practice in their methodologies, I focus specifically on the slow violence of over-indebtedness impacting garment workers and farmers during, but also pre-dating, the COVID-19 pandemic. In the lecture I intentionally ‘make space’ for the filmmaking by the Ruom Collective and portraiture photography by Sophal Neak to be viewed by the audience. The lecture works to underscore the dual value of paying greater attention in geographical research both to the ‘doing’ of creative practice and its myriad politics, and what can be learned through creative practice about the political geographies of slow violence experienced in people’s lives.