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dc.contributor.authorAure, Marit
dc.contributor.authorAl-Mahamid, Marsil Andjelov
dc.date.accessioned2022-02-08T11:42:50Z
dc.date.available2022-02-08T11:42:50Z
dc.date.issued2021-12-02
dc.description.abstractThis article discusses how to live with differences while maintaining differences in an international embroidery workshop in Tromsø, Norway. It explores the role of art in enabling interactions between strangers, showing how individuals become part of collectives and facilitate social change. This collaboration between artist and researcher draws on data from arts-based participant observations and qualitative interviews. The analysis shows how embroidery practices, materials, and the expression of the embroideries create a space affording integrative encounters between strangers, easing the interaction which neither presupposes nor asks for similarities, or aims for strong interpersonal relations. We find that difference is the material through which encounters are made. The embroidering and the workshop create a space owned by no one with no majorities or minorities, where all possess differences but do not produce “otherness.” Participants remain different, yet connect and transform, while demonstrating the possibilities of impersonal cross-cultural encounters.en_US
dc.identifier.citationAure, Al-Mahamid. Stitching People Together: The Art of Cross-Cultural Encounters in an Embroidery Workshop. Nordic Journal of Migration Research. 2021;11(4):400-415en_US
dc.identifier.cristinIDFRIDAID 1984682
dc.identifier.doi10.33134/NJMR.373
dc.identifier.issn1799-649X
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10037/23957
dc.language.isoengen_US
dc.publisherHelsinki University Pressen_US
dc.relation.journalNordic Journal of Migration Research
dc.relation.projectIDNorges forskningsråd: 270649en_US
dc.relation.urihttp://doi.org/10.33134/njmr.373
dc.rights.accessRightsopenAccessen_US
dc.rights.holderCopyright 2021 The Author(s)en_US
dc.titleStitching People Together: The Art of Cross-Cultural Encounters in an Embroidery Workshopen_US
dc.type.versionpublishedVersionen_US
dc.typeJournal articleen_US
dc.typeTidsskriftartikkelen_US
dc.typePeer revieweden_US


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