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Aesthetics of possibility
Amnesty undocumented migrants
Animation
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Co-creative practice
Critical events
Egyptian 2011 uprising
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Existential mobility
Imaginative ethnography
Mediterranean crossings
Vincent Crapanzano
Product details
- ISBN 9781526151841
- Weight: 623g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 21 Apr 2026
- Publisher: Manchester University Press
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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The present volume emerges from a practice-based research that focuses on experiences of migration and border crossing during what are perceived as existential ‘turning points’ by the protagonists themselves. It recognizes the fundamental role that imagination plays in people’s perceptions of reality, in their decisions and actions, and finally in the way they narrate their experiences. As a consequence, it makes a stance for ethnographic practice to include more creative and collaborative methodologies in order to explore such intangible and unstructured realms of existence. In particular, this ethnography developed theoretically and methodologically in close collaboration with a group of Egyptian men who crossed the Mediterranean Sea in search of better living opportunities in Italy, by engaging them through a range of the co-creative processes such as theatre improvisations, storytelling practices, collaborative filmmaking and participatory animation.
Alexandra D’Onofrio is a member of the Granada Centre for Visual Anthropology and a Lecturer in Social and Visual Anthropology at the University of Manchester
