Digital arts–refugee engagement

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dc.contributor.authorAljouni, A.
dc.contributor.authorBademci, O.
dc.contributor.authorHogan, S.
dc.contributor.authorMarino, S.
dc.contributor.authorMcDougall, J.
dc.contributor.authorRega, I.
dc.contributor.authorSkyrme, S.
dc.date.accessioned2024-07-12T21:40:15Z
dc.date.available2024-07-12T21:40:15Z
dc.date.issued2023en_US
dc.department[Belirlenecek]en_US
dc.description.abstractDigital Arts–Refugee Engagement (DA-RE) is an exploratory research partnership between refugee youth, academics, practitioners and community activists. Arts-based activities were combined with digital literacy to develop the capabilities of refugee youth in Turkey and Bangladesh. DA-RE’s participants co-created digital arts and connected with one another across the two settings in a digital third space to share narratives from their situated perspectives and lived experiences. In these ways, they developed skills of engagement and agency through the project, but at the heart of DA-RE was the intention to explore the links between refugee youths’ own creative agency, harnessed in new contexts enabled by the project, and their existing digital literacies. DA-RE sought to identify, with a theory of change, potential opportunities for refugee youth to both use this capability in the host community and provide a platform for their digital arts to offer a counter-narrative to ‘othering’ discourses at work in both their host communities and in the UK, where the project was coordinated, in so doing converting (digital) literacy into capability with positive consequences for social good. © 2023 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group.en_US
dc.description.sponsorshipBournemouth University, BU; Government of the United Kingdom; Arts and Humanities Research Council, AHRCen_US
dc.description.sponsorshipDA-RE was initially funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council through the Global Challenges Research Fund. Between the award and the start date the UK Government’s cut to the overseas development budget led to the withdrawal of funding for this project, among many commissioned. The project was ‘salvaged’ through university QR, so that we could honour our commitments to the teams in the two refugee youth settings, with the academic time from the UK given to the project ‘for free’. Therefore, the project’s outcomes were limited to the two virtual exhibitions and linked virtual panel, and the analysis of the artistic work and transcribed panel discussions and interviews with participants. The initial intention, with the much more substantial funding, had been to conduct more extensive fieldwork in the settings as a research team, support travel by the refugee youth participants to the academics and to include longitudinal follow up to see evidence of ecosystem health improvements and capability outcomes for the refugee youth (this had been funded as a three year project). The reduction of scope to exploring short-term potential for positive change was also imposed by the way we had to work remotely, due to covid (the funded project was designed in 2019), not only as researchers engaging with participants through screens, but also in the ways that the partnership itself was reliant on virtual third space by necessity rather than design.en_US
dc.description.sponsorshipThis project was supported by Bournemouth University, following the removal of funding for the AHRC Global Challenges Research Fund by the UK Government. We wish to thank Einar Thorsen and Dinusha Mendes for their support in securing alternative funds to protect the in-country activities to which our partners had committed. Most importantly, this project was entirely the result of the work, often in adversity, as is captured in the virtual panel recording on the project site, by our refugee youth participants Ayala Begum; Mohammad Jonayek; Md Iddris: Rio Yassin Abdumonab; Loai Dalati; Shahida; Mohammed Zunaid; Md. Raihan; Anisul Mustafa; Mohammad Sahat Zia; Mohammad Arfat; Mohammad Royal Shafi; Mohammad Asom; Fadia Alnasser; Michael Hart; Ahmed Hassun; Youssef Haji and Ahmed Durbula. We are also indebted to Mohammad Zarzou for technical support and creative mentoring and Kiyono Hayami, Eda Çakaloz, Sinem Ünüvar, Ada Yasemin Kardaş for peer support to participants, working with Özden Bademci, and for translation during the virtual panel. In Bangladesh, Nasir Uddin was supported by three research assistants, funded by the project–Tonmoy Chowdhury, Nusrat Kabir Preom and Lisa After Yesmin. From Gate of Sun, support for the project was provided by the following team members: Muhammad Zarzour led the creative team and develop artistic ideas for participants; Razan Ajlouni Local provided translation and meeting reports. Amr Ajlouni is a filmmaker who was responsible for developing ideas and supporting production stages, writing final reports and co-authoring this article; Hussein Mohammed was responsible for team communications and supported participants in administration, zoom meetings and helping with translation in addition to helping all participants in digital work through the Gate of Sun platform and others; Mohanad Haj Mohammed was project lawyer, produced DA-RE expenditure reports, assisted in translation during online sessions and Yamen Hasan supported filming and editing of all projects in collaboration with the participants.en_US
dc.identifier.doi10.1080/25741136.2023.2177953
dc.identifier.endpage290en_US
dc.identifier.issn2574-1136
dc.identifier.issue3en_US
dc.identifier.scopus2-s2.0-85152467183en_US
dc.identifier.scopusqualityQ2en_US
dc.identifier.startpage271en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.1080/25741136.2023.2177953
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12415/7201
dc.identifier.volume24en_US
dc.indekslendigikaynakScopus
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherTaylor and Francis Ltd.en_US
dc.relation.ispartofMedia Practice and Educationen_US
dc.relation.publicationcategoryMakale - Uluslararası Hakemli Dergi - Kurum Öğretim Elemanıen_US
dc.rightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessen_US
dc.snmzKY05111
dc.subjectDigital Artsen_US
dc.subjectDigital Literacyen_US
dc.subjectEngagementen_US
dc.subjectParticipationen_US
dc.subjectRefugee Youthen_US
dc.subjectThird Spaceen_US
dc.titleDigital arts–refugee engagementen_US
dc.typeArticle
dspace.entity.typePublication

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