ABSTRACT
In this chapter the author returns to her childhood neighbourhood in a small city in Finland as a researcher. Wayfinding is exploring the transformation of both the neighbourhood and the researcher. In addition, wayfinding becomes a counter to chrononormativite temporality, as the story that the author tells is non-linear. Throughout the chapter, the author explores how spatial, sociocultural and economic immobility and mobility form subject positions as belonging or not belonging. Focus is on memory, temporality and place. The empirical material of the chapter is the author’s and her brother’s memories, family photographs, participant observations, the authors childhood health card, as well as newspaper articles about the neighbourhood from the late 1970s until the mid of the 2010s. The chapter also includes artwork where the researcher has combined photographs of the neighbourhood from different time periods.
