Issue Details: First known date: 2023... 2023 Seeing Within, Without, Across and Between : Stories from Cross-Cultural Photographic Exchange
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'This paper discusses letters and photo-stories as sites for making strange our familiar relationships with the non-human world, through considering images and methods from the action-research project ‘Portraits of Change’, which explored environmental behaviour change and human/non-human relations through participatory visual dialogue between urban youth in Bangladesh, Australia and China.  In particular, it focuses on various themes arising in the exchange of letters and photo-stories created by students through workshops in Dhaka and Melbourne, and how these can both reinforce and challenge our ways of viewing the non-human world.  These themes, including health, aesthetics and visuality, also highlighted differing environmental perspectives between youth in majority and minority worlds.  The complexity of the multi-sited action-research engagements require methodological adaptations in both the participatory design of the workshops, and analysis of their resulting visual artifacts.' (Publication abstract)

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  • Epigraph: 
    The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes,
    but in having new eyes.’
    (Proust 160)

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    y separately published work icon Swamphen : A Journal of Cultural Ecology Strange Letters no. 9 2023 26491309 2023 periodical issue

    'This special issue of the Swamphen Journal was born from the Strange Letters Symposium held in 2021 when we were in the middle of the COVID-19 pandemic; a period of life gone strange in which we were forced to adopt new modes of meeting, communicating and being together-apart. In the Western tradition, people have often turned to letter writing as a means of connection with distant others but this symposium asked us to reimagine the letter for the strange times that we have found ourselves in (for some these strange times began with colonisation). To challenge the letter writing tradition, interrogating the communicative capacity of the more-than-human, seems strangely fitting when the nonhuman is so clearly asking us to listen.' (Publication summary)

    2023
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    Bangladesh,
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    South Asia, South and East Asia, Asia,
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    Australia,
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    China,
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    East Asia, South and East Asia, Asia,
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