Lenses of emotions and affect have provided important theoretical frameworks for transnational family care scholarship to research digital media practices of older migrants. This chapter examines what I call the emotions-based affective interview walk method for understanding emotive engagements, tied to digital media practices, of older culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD) migrant women. The method brings together perspectives from the field of emotions, transnational family care scholarship, and walking interviews. I argue that the affective interview walk becomes an ethnographic gaze for understanding feelings, memories, aspirations, and longings produced by migration and ageing, providing an immersive method to talk about being in later life. The chapter brings together insights from ethnographic projects working with older Sri Lankan migrant women in Australia. The chapter discusses how by examining older migrant women’s homes, utilising walks in the gardens, rooms, shrines, and kitchens, the affective interview walk method can be extended to construct an emotive as well as a feminist political economy analysis of the self.

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Affective Interview Walks: Emotional Perspectives of Older Sri Lankan Migrant Women’s Digital Media Practices in Australia

  • Shashini Gamage

摘要

Lenses of emotions and affect have provided important theoretical frameworks for transnational family care scholarship to research digital media practices of older migrants. This chapter examines what I call the emotions-based affective interview walk method for understanding emotive engagements, tied to digital media practices, of older culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD) migrant women. The method brings together perspectives from the field of emotions, transnational family care scholarship, and walking interviews. I argue that the affective interview walk becomes an ethnographic gaze for understanding feelings, memories, aspirations, and longings produced by migration and ageing, providing an immersive method to talk about being in later life. The chapter brings together insights from ethnographic projects working with older Sri Lankan migrant women in Australia. The chapter discusses how by examining older migrant women’s homes, utilising walks in the gardens, rooms, shrines, and kitchens, the affective interview walk method can be extended to construct an emotive as well as a feminist political economy analysis of the self.