Refugee publicness through rhizomatic alternative media
This paper explores the idea of publicness, the process of becoming public, as a means of redressing the ambivalent position occupied by those going through the asylum system in relationship to the normative Habermasian public sphere. Through asylum claims and bids for citizenship people going through the asylum system seek entry to normative polities, yet are legally and culturally excluded from them. The paper in particular considers alternative creative communication practices employed by cultural and community institutions that seek to subvert this exclusion. I argue that we need a more flexible conception of how communication occurs in and around such publics to critically accommodate these tensions. The study draws on participant observation in community centres offering creative mediation activities in North East England and South Wales in 2019-2020.
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- Published
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- Published version
Journal
Ethical Space: the international journal of communication ethicsISSN
1742-0105Publisher
Abramis AcademicPublisher URL
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Issue
2Volume
21Page range
95-110Department affiliated with
- Media and Film Publications
Institution
University of SussexFull text available
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