Contested Multiplicities and Mobile Monologues: The Poetics and Politics of Conviviality in the Plural

Navigating danger through nuisance: Racialized urban fears, gentrification, and sensory enskilment in Amsterdam

“…They said, “if there is trouble, phone us and we will come immediately.” I have the idea that they more or less controlled it.Here, we witness how racialized narratives of hangjongeren deviance travel and are shared in routine spaces and activities—like entering or exiting the building. Consisting mostly of “emotionally charged anecdotes linked to the senses” (Vollebergh, 2022), these stories function as tools of “sensory vivification” (Low, 2015, p. 306) that entice Henk to see, hear, and feel the same way his neighbors do in their encounters with hangjongeren . While Henk does not report ever being personally harassed or victimized, the incidents shared by his neighbors appear to play a role in re‐orientating how he perceives the “shouting and noise” produced by these youths from a mere disturbance to a manifestation of crime in potentia— namely, home intrusions and sexual harassment.…”

Motivation and investment

“…Whilst a semi-structured interview would have allowed for attention to be directed to specific issues previously identified in the literature on the choice-to-EMI, monologues are not without precedent as a collection instrument. For example, in relation to hidden stories in the field of psychology (Kuncewicz & Kuncewicz, 2019) and ethnographically, as mobile phone (written) monologues (Vollebergh, 2022).…”