Empathy and Entangled Engagements: Critical-Creative Methodologies in Transnational Spaces

Abstract

This forum presents six projects that experiment with creative methodologies as a means of creating new knowledges and solidarities within and across transnational communities. These projects contribute to the “creative turn” in the geohumanities through transnational (re)framings of empathy at various scales; by attempting to “provincialize” understandings of empathy; through efforts to pry apart the complexity of empathy in transit within the transnational Filipino diaspora; and by disrupting hierarchies of expertise between university and community.

本论坛呈现实验创意的方法论作为在跨国社群之中与之间创造新知识与团结的六项计画。这些计画，透过在各种尺度上以跨国的方式（重新）架构移情、藉由“省籍化”对于移情的理解之企图、窥探在跨国菲律宾离散社群内转变中的移情之复杂性，以及瓦解大学与社区之间的专业阶层关系，对地理人文学科中的“创意转向”做出贡献。

En este foro se presentan seis proyectos en los que se experimenta con metodologías creativas como medio para crear nuevos conocimientos y solidaridades dentro y a través de comunidades transnacionales. Con estos proyectos se contribuye al “giro creativo” en las geohumanidades a través de las (re)enmarcaciones de la empatía a diferentes escalas; intentando “provincializar” los entendimientos de la empatía; esforzándonos en romper la complejidad de la empatía en tránsito dentro de la diáspora transnacional filipina; y afectando las jerarquías de experticia que campean entre la universidad y la comunidad.

Key Words:

• creative methodologies
• empathy
• Filipino diaspora
• provincializing affect
• transnational

• 创意方法论
• 移情
• 菲律宾离散族群
• 省籍化情绪
• 跨国

• metodologías creativas
• empatía
• diáspora filipina
• afecto provincializador
• transnacional

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

We would like to thank Deborah Dixon and Jennifer Cassidento for their work on this collection and Sneja Gunew for her comments.

FUNDING

We acknowledge the UBC Faculty of Arts grant to the Social Justice@UBC Networks.

Additional information

Funding

We acknowledge the UBC Faculty of Arts grant to the Social Justice@UBC Networks.

Notes on contributors

Leonora C. Angeles

LEONORA C. ANGELES is Associate Professor at the School of Community and Regional Planning and Gender, Race, Sexuality and Social Justice Institute, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z2, Canada. E-mail: [email protected]. Her continuing research interests are in international and community development issues related to transnationalism and social justice.

Geraldine Pratt

GERALDINE PRATT is Professor and Canada Research Chair in Transnationalism and Precarious Labour in the Department of Geography at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z2, Canada. E-mail: [email protected]. She is the author of Working Feminism (2004) and Families Apart: Migrant Mothers and the Conflicts of Labor and Love (2012), coauthor of Gender, Work and Space (1995) and Film and Urban Space: Critical Possibilities (2014), and coeditor of The Global and the Intimate: Feminism in Our Time (2012). She coauthored with Caleb Johnston Nanay, a site-specific testimonial play that premiered at Vancouver’s PuSh Festival (2009), and toured to Berlin’s HAU1 Theatre (2009), Edinburgh (2012), Whitehorse (2015), and Metro Manila (2013, 2015).