TY - JOUR
T1 - Trapped in Time and Place
T2 - Cognitive Immobility among Diaspora Communities
AU - Olumba, Ezenwa E.
AU - Gola, Alessandra
AU - Mfon, Lowe E.
N1 - This is the author’s final version and the article has been accepted for publication in Diaspora Studies. The final publication can be found: https://doi.org/10.1163/09763457-bja10127
PY - 2024/9/11
Y1 - 2024/9/11
N2 - This article adopts the interpretative phenomenological analysis (IPA) approach to explore the phenomenon of cognitive immobility, where individuals remain cognitively trapped in experiences or locations despite elapsed time and physical distance from those events and places. It explores how (im)mobility and life transitions hold people in the past. The study focuses on the cognitive experiences of Mrs Eve, an African-American woman who on her first visit to Dakar, Senegal, felt a deep, unexplained connection to the place. The article triangulates Mrs Eve’s experiences against those shared by other individuals in previously published peer-reviewed narratives to reveal how (im)mobility and life transitions can lead to cognitive immobility. It underscores that traumatic or memorable life experiences can result in cognitive immobility under certain circumstances and thus enriches the discourse on people who are cognitively trapped in their past.
AB - This article adopts the interpretative phenomenological analysis (IPA) approach to explore the phenomenon of cognitive immobility, where individuals remain cognitively trapped in experiences or locations despite elapsed time and physical distance from those events and places. It explores how (im)mobility and life transitions hold people in the past. The study focuses on the cognitive experiences of Mrs Eve, an African-American woman who on her first visit to Dakar, Senegal, felt a deep, unexplained connection to the place. The article triangulates Mrs Eve’s experiences against those shared by other individuals in previously published peer-reviewed narratives to reveal how (im)mobility and life transitions can lead to cognitive immobility. It underscores that traumatic or memorable life experiences can result in cognitive immobility under certain circumstances and thus enriches the discourse on people who are cognitively trapped in their past.
UR - https://brill.com/view/journals/bdia/18/1/article-p57_4.xml?Tab%20Menu=Article-metadata
U2 - 10.1163/09763457-bja10127
DO - 10.1163/09763457-bja10127
M3 - Article
VL - 18
SP - 57
EP - 78
JO - Diaspora Studies
JF - Diaspora Studies
IS - 1
ER -