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Abstract
Informed by recent fieldwork with “Muslim youth” in Aarhus, Denmark, West African migrants in Lisbon, Portugal and personal experiences of mobility in both cities, I deploy dusk as a sensorial epistemology and fiction as a complementary aesthetic methodology as I attempt to write the city (creatively) back into the (critical) urban. Forays into fiction are pertinent, because it is through imagination and the creativity of textual expression that many find their voice and emerge from (daily) routine when confronted with the night. The image-texts presented are intended not as momentous highlights but as provocative suggestions of the nocturnal banal in terms of urban presences, borders and human-environment relationships. The overarching premise is that the difference of dusk is not a loss or necessarily a waning, but rather a generative force of meaning and belonging.
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Informé par un récent travail de terrain avec la « jeunesse musulmane » à Aarhus, au Danemark, les migrants ouest-africains à Lisbonne, au Portugal et les expériences personnelles de mobilité dans les deux villes, je déploie le crépuscule en tant qu’épistémologie sensorielle et la fiction comme méthodologie esthétique complémentaire alors que je tente d’écrire le la ville (créativement) dans l’urbain (critique). Les incursions dans la fiction sont pertinentes, car c’est par l’imagination et la créativité de l’expression textuelle que beaucoup trouvent leur voix et sortent de la routine (quotidienne) face à la nuit. Les images-textes présentées ne sont pas conçues comme des moments forts mais comme des suggestions provocatrices du banal nocturne en termes de présences urbaines, de frontières et de relations homme-environnement. La prémisse fondamentale est que la différence du crépuscule n’est pas une perte ou nécessairement un déclin, mais plutôt une force génératrice de sens et d’appartenance.
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