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In my demonstration I will show a document film Minun Helsinkini/My Helsinki/Wa Magaaleydi Helsinki made by young men with Somali background. The film is one of the productions produced during my multidisciplinary research project A Finn, a Foreigner or a Transnational Hip-hopper? Participatory Art-Based Research on the Identification Negotiations and Belonging of the Second Generation Finnish Immigrant Youth in Helsinki, Finland. My research project deals with themes of cultural in-between spaces and issues of multiculturalism that I have also approached in my previous research. Methodologically I am interested in applying experimental postures and perspectives in the research context. I think that art based, narrative and performative methods can be used to advance understanding of the interplay between diverse contemporary social and aesthetic realities, and can also be seen as a way of building bridges between artistic and scientific approaches in academic contexts.
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Oikarinen-Jabai, H. (2013). Minun Helsinkini/My Helsinki/Wa Magaaleydi Helsinki – Finnish Somali Youth Speak for Themselves in Their Document Film. In: Koenitz, H., Sezen, T.I., Ferri, G., Haahr, M., Sezen, D., C̨atak, G. (eds) Interactive Storytelling. ICIDS 2013. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 8230. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-02756-2_31
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