Creative | Alternative Everyday Geographies, Geographies Everyday: Mundane of Mobilities Made Tangible Laura Bisaillon University of Toronto Scarborough
[email protected] Leah Montange University of Toronto
[email protected] Alberto Zambenedetti University of Toronto
[email protected] Paolo Frascà University of Toronto
[email protected] Lina El-Shamy University of Toronto
[email protected] Tamir Arviv Technion-Israel Institute of Technology
[email protected] Published with Creative Commons licence: Attribution–Noncommercial–No Derivatives Everyday Geographies, Geographies Everyday 1026 Abstract In this photo essay, a group of six academics contributed to a cross-disciplinary conversation about immigration, mobility and circulation. We tasked ourselves with subverting crisis narratives attached to global migration by exploring the habitual, mundane, and everyday aspects of migration, as well bringing into focus the bodily, intimate and affective dimensions of mobility. Each co-author selected one or more photographs they had taken of an object or daily practice that illustrates the immediacy, tangibility, and materiality of global mobility, migration and circulation from their perspective as an academic or practitioner in their own discipline. We each also wrote mini-essays to contextualize and explicate these photographs. The result is part photo-essay and part collage. As the various pieces juxtapose with one another, themes of temporal stretching, melancholy, dis/orientation, and the rhythms and cycles of everyday life that are altered and interpenetrated by the mobilities and circulations of people and objects arose. This collective piece also registers the blurring boundaries between everyday life and research practice, individual and collective conversation, work and pleasure.