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This article unpacks the notion of 'carrying' as an embodied set of influences that bear upon our research practices and journeys. It is widely recognised that we acquire and carry a body of books as intellectual companionship. It is not however readily acknowledged how we as researchers carry sounds, aesthetics, traumas and obsessions, which stay with us and take time to appear before us, as methodological projects within our grasp. Researchers are carriers embarked on exchanges in a double sense. Firstly, we are embodied and affected by our life trajectories. There is a temporality to our research which is entwined with the very knots of our lives. Secondly, we are carriers through the specific ways in which we activate our research materials and relationships. In this article, the two elements of carrying are underlined as being intimately related.

This article excavates a discussion on the mediations that informed the making of the film Aaj Kaal by Asian elders, in a project directed by Avtar Brah and coordinated by Jasbir Panesar with the film trainer Vipin Kumar. It brings this largely unknown and inventive film to the foreground of current developments in participative media research practices. The discussion explores the coming together of the ethnographic imagination and performative pedagogies during the course of an adult education community project centred on South Asian elders making a film. Collaborative dialogic encounters illuminate post-war British front rooms, the seaside and public spheres from what is usually an unlikely vantage point of view in public accounts.

Résumé Cet article adopte le rythme des répertoires d'images et de sons qui accompagnent la réalisation d'un film consacré aux espaces publics dans un paysage d'après-guerre et postcolonial. À la recherche de conversations qui offrent des indices de l'habitation et la production d'espaces publics dans un quartier de cinémas, l'article examine le processus créatif qui se joue dans l'écriture de ces histoires calquées sur la manière même dont les villes s'imaginent, se perdent et se retrouvent, peut-être, dans une réflexion poétique.

This article centers the methodological need to study both (a) social scenes and (b) social cinema scenes to elucidate a much more complicated sense for understanding how cities and space are inhabited, produced, and invented. Using a practice based method of research, it utilizes aural and visual methods to revisit how we approach and conceptualize postwar lives in the United Kingdom, beyond the limits of an either—or analysis of celebration or trauma and victimhood.

This article works across disciplines: politics, geography and social and cultural theory. Issues of space and body are brought to bear on how we think about the question 'making a difference'. By considering difference in terms of the socio-spatial impact of the presence of hitherto socially excluded groups, such as women and racialised minorities, the gendered and racialised nature of the body politic and most specifically its 'elite' positions is brought into focus. The co-existence of women and 'black' and Asian MPs in Westminster demonstrates how these 'groups' are both historically and conceptually 'space invaders'. This positionality underlies a series of social processes which illustrate how their very presence is a disruption as well as a continual negotiation. While accepting the agnostic perspective that there are 'no guarantees' that the arrival of these 'new' bodies will articulate a different politics, in terms of policy outcomes and political debate, this article asserts that the sociological terms of their presence deserves in-depth attention.

This article works across disciplines: politics, geography, & social & cultural theory. Issues of space & body are brought to bear on how we think about the question 'making a difference.' By considering difference in terms of the sociospatial impact of the presence of hitherto socially excluded groups, such as women & racialized minorities, the gendered & racialized nature of the body politic & most specifically its 'elite' positions is brought into focus. The coexistence of women & 'black' & Asian MPs in Westminster demonstrates how these 'groups' are both historically & conceptually 'space invaders.' This positionality underlies a series of social processes, which illustrate how their very presence is a disruption as well as a continual negotiation. While accepting the agnostic perspective that there are 'no guarantees' that the arrival of these 'new' bodies will articulate a different politics, in terms of policy outcomes & political debate, this article asserts that the sociological terms of their presence deserves in-depth attention. 79 References. Adapted from the source document.