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Spoken from this Urban Place, from These Dark Lips: Using Space, Place and Poetry to Investigate my Lived Experience as a Woman of African Descent in the New Urban Environment

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dc.contributor.advisorMannette, Joy Anne
dc.creatorPeters, Nailah Dahlia
dc.date.accessioned2015-08-28T14:44:35Z
dc.date.available2015-08-28T14:44:35Z
dc.date.copyright2014-04-25
dc.date.issued2015-08-28
dc.date.updated2015-08-28T14:44:35Z
dc.degree.disciplineEducation
dc.degree.levelMaster's
dc.degree.nameMEd - Master of Education
dc.description.abstractThis paper validates oral histories and micro-ethnographic experience by using the device of Griot poetry and prose to explore the spaces between life history and ethnography. This project destabilizes the imagined boundaries between (the multiplicity of) subjectivity/ies and objectivity, and the researcher and researched to illuminate the intersections between human experience, personal narrative, and the New Urban Environment (Caygill, 1998, pp. 5). It is argued that new ways of theorizing about contemporary racialized subjectivities are necessary to address the historic and persistent absence of subaltern perspectives from dominant discourses that intimately and directly shape our lives. Drawing on the legacy of artistic expression as a means to give voice to suppressed perspectives, this paper illustrates that psycho-geography and urban flânerie can be leveraged to make insightful and relevant connections between individual and collective consciousness to inspire critical and discursive analysis and broaden representations of Black womanness; from critiques to possibilities.
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10315/29856
dc.language.isoen
dc.rightsAuthor owns copyright, except where explicitly noted. Please contact the author directly with licensing requests.
dc.subjectSocial research
dc.subjectSociology of education
dc.subjectCanadian studies
dc.subject.keywordsAfrican-Canadian Studies
dc.subject.keywordsRace Studies
dc.subject.keywordsGender Studies
dc.subject.keywordsSocial Research
dc.subject.keywordsCanadian Studies
dc.subject.keywordsBlack cultural experience
dc.subject.keywordsBlack subjects
dc.subject.keywordsBlack Female subjects
dc.subject.keywordsBlack Male subjects
dc.subject.keywordsRacism and Sexism in the GTA
dc.subject.keywordsthe New Urban Environment
dc.subject.keywordsArtistic Practice
dc.subject.keywordsNarrative Inquiry
dc.subject.keywordsUrban Flaneurie
dc.subject.keywordsPsychogeography
dc.subject.keywordsEthnography
dc.subject.keywordsAuto-ethnography
dc.subject.keywordsMind Map
dc.subject.keywordsDiscursive Analysis
dc.subject.keywordsalternative geography
dc.subject.keywordsCanadian contemporary history
dc.subject.keywordsCanadian History
dc.subject.keywordsLife History
dc.subject.keywordsRace and Education
dc.titleSpoken from this Urban Place, from These Dark Lips: Using Space, Place and Poetry to Investigate my Lived Experience as a Woman of African Descent in the New Urban Environment
dc.typeElectronic Thesis or Dissertationen_US

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