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While violence is often targeted at and experienced by bodies with different identities or appearance, studies of violence in social sciences research often neglect the body as a data source and site of analysis. This article makes an original contribution to the literature on visual methods in general and arts-based approaches specifically, by foc...
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... while men and women in the workshops discussed the threat of Al-Shabaab and their experiences of radicalisation and recruitment, they did not necessarily make these central in their body maps. For example, Alian (Figure 4), a young man from the Giriama community, divulged his experience of online grooming by a female Al-Shabaab recruiter who took advantage of his family's financial difficulties to entice him to join her with the offer of money and the promise of future employment. However, he did not consider this experience important enough to include in his body map. ...
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... we explore the taken for granted-ness of animals' presences in things and practices which appear to be unrelated to their animal origins? Bruckner discusses how body mapping -an artsbased research method to produce data and to communicate findings to a wider audience (see Aroussi et al. 2022) -can make ordinary HAR visible and palpable again. Her methodology pulls from feminist scholarship on the body as porous and more-than-human; that is to say, the body is understood as a place which is open and permeable, as a process rather than a fixed container of a discrete human self, separated from apparently external socio-economic formations and the environment. ...
In this introduction, authors highlight how the present book builds on, and contributes to, methodological debates in human-animal studies. By providing important context about the state of research in human-animal studies, and the current methodological fragmentation, the introduction orients readers to how, and why, a cohesive discussion of methodological tools is imperative. Authors then review each chapters’ contributions, describing authors’ central aims of re-focusing our methods to better attend to the animal side of human-animal relations. The introduction ends by discussing important limitations of the book, as well as suggesting ways forward for human-animal scholarship.
... we explore the taken for granted-ness of animals' presences in things and practices which appear to be unrelated to their animal origins? Bruckner discusses how body mapping -an artsbased research method to produce data and to communicate findings to a wider audience (see Aroussi et al. 2022) -can make ordinary HAR visible and palpable again. Her methodology pulls from feminist scholarship on the body as porous and more-than-human; that is to say, the body is understood as a place which is open and permeable, as a process rather than a fixed container of a discrete human self, separated from apparently external socio-economic formations and the environment. ...
In this introduction, authors highlight how the present book builds on, and contributes to, methodological debates in human-animal studies. By providing important context about the state of research in human-animal studies, and the current methodological fragmentation, the introduction orients readers to how, and why, a cohesive discussion of methodological tools is imperative. Authors then review each chapters' contributions, describing authors' central aims of re-focusing our methods to better attend to the animal side of human-animal relations. The introduction ends by discussing important limitations of the book, as well as suggesting ways forward for human-animal scholarship. Animals surround me right now as I write these words: Inside are three cats; sculptures of elephants […]; photos of cheetahs […] and a painting of coyotes. Pieces of animals decorate nearly every room (all found!)-bird nests, a porcupine quill, bison fur, […] the skeletal mouth of a sea urchin. Outside there are butterflies, a huge spider that lives by the porch light, mosquitoes, […]and the neighbourhood bully cats. Furthermore, there is milk and cheese in the refrigerator, cat food made of cows, chickens, turkeys, salmon, and tuna, honey, leather shoes, a leather softball glove, and household products that have been tested on animals (Urbanik 2012, p. xi). Nobody cares about animals (Academic expressing scorn at human-animal scholarship). I do not see animals in the fridge (Academic laughing with derision). i The material and symbolic presence of animals at once surrounds, and alludes us. While many argue that the social and environmental realities of our contemporary world call us to reconfigure how we interrelate with animals in less exploitative ways, doing so first requires our careful attention to how animals emerge, and what their needs may be. Questions about epistemology, methods and methodology quickly arise-how do we begin to understand
Violent extremism is an ambiguous and politically loaded concept, and – at the national level – the parameters used to define it are usually framed by the state, powerful ruling elites, and members of the international community, either directly or indirectly through donor-funded projects. Although different types of violent extremism and extremist movements exist in Kenya, donors and the state often focus on religiously-inspired groups such as Al-Shabaab, the Islamic State, Al-Qaeda, and affiliated networks such as the Al-Muhajiroun, Al-Hijra, and Jaysh Al-Ayman. However, at a community level, participants in our body map workshops highlighted gang violence, police brutality, ethnically motivated violence, marginalisation, discrimination, and gender-based violence as priorities in defining violent extremism. We conclude that constructions of violent extremism at the local level are shaped by lived experiences of everyday insecurities influenced by gender, ethnicity, social status, location, and interactions with the state. To effectively address violent extremism in Kenya and beyond, its definition needs to be contextualised in ways that take into consideration local perspectives and everyday experiences of violence and insecurity.
