Browsing by Author "Moles, Kate"

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    The hard work of reparative futures: Exploring the potential of creative and convivial practices in post-conflict Uganda
    (Elsevier, 2023) Moles, Kate; Anek, Florence; Baker, Will; Komakech, Daniel; Owor, Arthur; Pennell, Catriona; Rowsell, Jennifer
    In this paper we empirically explore the ways in which young people were enroled in a multimodal exhibition to creatively produce narratives of their past, presents and futures. We look at the different ways this work was framed, and how all memory work and, we argue, future work is relational, interactionally produced and situated in dynamic and unfolding social and political frameworks. We look at the ways young people described the work of producing accounts of their futures within that setting, and the different forms of labour involved in that process. We explore the encounters that fostered local, more humble, acts of care and repair, and how those everyday practices might help build towards reparative futures.
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    Imagining futures/future imaginings: creative heritage work with young people in Uganda
    (Journal of the British Academy, 2023-11-02) Moles, Kate; Baker, Will; Nono, Francis; Komakech, Daniel; Owor, Arthur ; Anek, Florence; Pennell, Catriona; Rowsell, Jennifer
    Drawing on research in Uganda, we describe our project in which we invited young people to think about their lives in ways that opened up creative and hopeful imaginaries of the future. We understand future imaginary work to be a significant part of memory work. An important component in the ways we think about the past is imagining the futures it ties to. We wanted the idea of the future to be something our young participants constructed together, in dialogue and iteratively, so that the project had a sense of collaboration and shared interests. To do so we developed the idea of a touring exhibition through which multiple voices, positions, understandings and values could be accommodated side by side. The article contributes to scholarly and public debates about reparations and memorialisation, particularly by showing the crucial role young people can play in articulating more just futures.