ABSTRACT
This chapter outlines the methodological reflexivity that is currently coursing through some edges of sociology, cultural geography, and mobilities research, while signaling some of its overlooked antecedents in feminist epistemologies. Next, it provides some of the ways in which contemporary mobile locative media artists are brushing up against similar concerns. Finally, the chapter explores how the various cross-disciplinary practices are beginning to converge around an emergent field of research-creation, enacting both social science and participatory art as simultaneous and mutually reinforcing experimental methods for generating provocative awareness. It also considers different approachs to mobile arts practice, one that additionally elicits histories, memories, and fragments of the past, and sets them in motion through new conduits into the present. The chapter makes palpable not only feminist epistemologies underlying the non-representational turn, but also its colonial entanglements in histories of mobile geographies of race and nation-building.
