Interconnections and Configurations: Toward a Global Feminist Ethnography

Bhavnani, Kum‐Kum; Talcott, Molly

doi:10.4135/9781483384740.n7

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“…Critical ethnography allows the researcher to bring those at the margins back in to the center. Critical ethnography connects lived experience to history and socially created structures of inequality (Bhavnani and Talcott 2011). My research methodology questioned dominant forms of knowledge production and what counts as "real" knowledge in what I call feminist critical mixed-race studies.…”

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confidence: 99%

Embodied Resistance: Multiracial Identity, Gender, and the Body

Gonzales

2019

Social Sciences

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This article explores the importance of the physical body in the development of gendered racial and ethnic identities through in-depth semi-structured interviews with 11 multiracial/multiethnic women. From a critical mixed race and critical feminist perspective, I argue that the development of an embodied and gendered multiracial and multiethnic identity is a path to questioning and resisting the dominant monoracial order in the United States. Interviews reveal that respondents develop these embodied identities both through understandings of themselves as gendered and raced subjects and through relationships with monoracial individuals. The process by which these women understand their physical bodies as multiracial subjects illustrates a critical embodied component of the social construction of race and ethnicity in the United States.

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Embodied Resistance: Multiracial Identity, Gender, and the Body

Gonzales

2019

Social Sciences

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“…The data included in this article form part of a multisited ethnographic study (Bhavnani and Talcott, 2011;Hesse-Biber and Leavy, 2005;Marcus, 1998Marcus, [1995) that I conducted between June 2005 andJune 2007. In the larger study, I traced the social-movement activities of the AMAP, whose membership includes more than 50 organizations that are largely rural and based in the Mexican South. While I spent time at gatherings and in communities across several states in the Mexican South, the majority of my research took place in rural communities in Oaxaca's Isthmus of Tehuantepec, the region that has been called "ground zero" of the PPP (Lydersen, 2005: 27).…”

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“Together We Have Power”

Talcott¹

2013

Latin American Perspectives

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Activist Oaxacan women's lived experiences of trauma and violence have shaped their participation in indigenous-led anti-neoliberal organizing. The multifaceted dimensions of violence they experience-which are at once deeply structural and personal-have produced an intimate, embodied form of oppositional consciousness among them. The traumas of daily life are simultaneously racialized, gendered, and classed, and these embodied experiences can, and sometimes do, produce political responses among women. As they engage in activism that challenges capitalist incursions in the countryside, they are able to link the various traumas they face and, in so doing, become more effective protagonists in their interconnected journeys toward personal and structural emancipation. Experiencias vividas por mujeres militantes de Oaxaca del trauma y la violencia han dado forma a su participación en la organización anti-neoliberal liderada por las indígenas.Las dimensiones multifacéticas de violencia que sufren, que son a la vez estructurales y profundamente personal, han producido una forma íntima y encarnada de conciencia de oposición entre ellas. Los traumas de la vida cotidiana son al mismo tiempo racializados, de género, y de clase, y estas experiencias encarnadas pueden, y a veces lo hacen, producir respuestas políticas entre las mujeres. Al participar en el activismo que desafía las incursiones capitalistas en el campo, ellas son capaces de vincular los diversos traumas que enfrentan y, al hacerlo, se convierten en protagonistas más efectivas en sus pasos interconectados hacia la emancipación personal y estructural.

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“…Despite the shifts in the topics of my intellectual passions, from critical social and developmental psychology, to 'race' in the US imaginary, to the lived experiences of women in the Third World, my passion for ethnographic enquiry has never been diluted (Bhavnani 2006a). Documentary film, however, allows me to conduct ethnographic enquiry and simultaneously opens up the possibility of seeing and creating those 'unexpected connections' about which Haraway (1988) writes so powerfully.…”

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confidence: 99%