TY - JOUR
T1 - Zine-making for critical cultural justice inquiry
T2 - a qualitative multi-method approach to reimagining Kingston and Arthur’s Vale Historic Area, Norfolk Island
AU - Baker, Sarah
AU - Cantillon, Zelmarie
AU - Evans, Chelsea
PY - 2024
Y1 - 2024
N2 - Zines have recently emerged as methodological tools in qualitative research seeking to deploy arts-based approaches that foreground agency, collaboration, creativity, affect and critique. This article reflects on the use of zine-making as method in a project focused on Kingston and Arthur's Vale Historic Area, Norfolk Island. The article analyses seven methods used in making zine content: sticky notes, memory prompts, story completion, letter writing, interpretive text, conversations and participatory mapping. The article positions the project's multi-method approach to zine-making as a form of critical cultural justice inquiry. We discuss zine-making in terms of its sociable qualities, as well as its capacity to support representational belonging and a sense of ownership among participants over project outputs. As part of critical cultural justice inquiry, zine-making can enable ‘doing research otherwise’ – resisting extractivism and instead emphasising building relationships, engaging in dialogue and co-creating resources for hope and action.
AB - Zines have recently emerged as methodological tools in qualitative research seeking to deploy arts-based approaches that foreground agency, collaboration, creativity, affect and critique. This article reflects on the use of zine-making as method in a project focused on Kingston and Arthur's Vale Historic Area, Norfolk Island. The article analyses seven methods used in making zine content: sticky notes, memory prompts, story completion, letter writing, interpretive text, conversations and participatory mapping. The article positions the project's multi-method approach to zine-making as a form of critical cultural justice inquiry. We discuss zine-making in terms of its sociable qualities, as well as its capacity to support representational belonging and a sense of ownership among participants over project outputs. As part of critical cultural justice inquiry, zine-making can enable ‘doing research otherwise’ – resisting extractivism and instead emphasising building relationships, engaging in dialogue and co-creating resources for hope and action.
KW - arts-based methods
KW - critical cultural justice inquiry
KW - cultural justice
KW - Kingston and Arthur’s Vale Historic Area
KW - multi-methods
KW - Norfolk Island
KW - representational belonging
KW - sociable methods
KW - zine-making
KW - zines
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85211345263&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1177/14687941241297376
DO - 10.1177/14687941241297376
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85211345263
SN - 1468-7941
JO - Qualitative Research
JF - Qualitative Research
ER -