Art-research collaborations: encountering, making, and developing body-health-environment relations
The Creative Contestations and Social Justice research group and the Culture, Medicine and Power research group are pleased to jointly welcome Dr. Maaret Jokela-Pansini for a talk on body-health-environment relations on 30th October.
About the event
This talk explores art-research collaborations as a way to co-produce knowledge on body-environment relations in communities that are marginalised due to severe environmental issues such as environmental pollution, and social, political, and economic factors linked to such problems. Drawing on collaborative research in a steel town in Southern Italy, the presentation traces our collaboration process as a researcher and an actor/community theatre organiser in three stages: encountering body-environment relations amidst chronic contamination through feminist political ecology and environmental humanities; making these relations visible through the arts-based research method of body mapping; and developing body-health-environment relations based on place and the local sociocultural context of Taranto. By reflecting on both participants’ experiences and our own, the talk highlights how co-creative approaches can produce knowledge across academic and non-academic spaces and contribute to creating more theoretically heterogeneous political ecologies.
About the speaker
Maaret Jokela-Pansini
Maaret Jokela-Pansini is Senior Research Associate at the School of Geography and the Environment, University of Oxford. Her work explores how people experience health, illness, environmental pollution and marginalisation in different ways and how these experiences are shaped by global inequalities and power relations. She employs participatory methods, especially arts‐based approaches such as body mapping, creative writing, and storytelling to bridge academic and non‐academic spaces.
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