Quilting as a Qualitative, Feminist Research Method: Expanding Understandings of Migrant Deaths

Arellano, Sonia C.

doi:10.1080/07350198.2021.2002058

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“…In migration contexts characterized by mobility, but also enforced immobility, the creative process can facilitate people making sense of their lives and their circumstances and creating beauty and meaning even in constrained, painful and difficult contexts. For example, Arellano (2022, 20) explains how quilting as a method “valu[es] quilting, quilters, and process in a capitalist, patriarchal, product driven academic context” and allows for a sensitive and creative way of addressing the uncomfortable topic of migrant deaths in the Arizona desert.…”

Section: Co‐creative Methodsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Feminist methodologies in migration research

Clark‐Kazak

2024

International Migration

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Section: Co‐creative Methodsmentioning

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Feminist methodologies in migration research

Clark‐Kazak

2024

International Migration

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“…Quilting as method , or ‘QAM’ as explained by Sonia Arellano (2022), is informed by Feminist-materialist methodologies and by scholarship that reflects a holistic view of the world and its human and more-than-human co-habitants. It entails processes of mapping embodied everyday practices, positioning ‘stories, relationships to the land and local communities, and accountability to people’ (Arellano, 2022, p. 18). Quilt-making traverses cultures and classes, collectively evoking a sense of democratic community, gifting warmth, beauty, well-being, and creativity amongst other things.…”

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confidence: 99%

Teaching and Learning in COVID-19: Pandemic Quilt Storying

Ritchie

Phillips

Brock

et al. 2023

International Review of Qualitative Research

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Something changed during the pandemic; we attuned to a call. A call to action, breathing, support, activism, care, well-being, community, minimised mobilities, planetary health and our relations to all these things, and more. We are women working in education spaces across multiple communities, responsive to ongoing matters of concern (Latour, 2008), aware that our rhizomic connections have no middle or end. We use the method and metaphor of the quilt in this collaboration and hold quilting as a Feminist intervention, a return to her-stories and ways of knowing through story as we stitch together cultural and material stories of place. Our COVID-19 chronicles are a creative, collaborative exploration of the initial impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on learning and teaching across our respective countries. This paper is a collaboration of critical auto-ethnographies (Holman Jones, 2016), quilted and stitched together by a group of education scholars who united to research the impact of online emergency teaching that forced education site closures globally. Through this collaborative image quilting, we curated responses to our initial 100-word stories of pandemic life in 2020, that we had posted on a collaborative Padlet. Feminist, storying, and ethnographic theory inform alignment and stitching of each 100-word patch.

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“…This radical possibility reflects compelling arguments made by scholars who link textiles with histories of activism and abolition (Arellano 2022;Brown 1989;Morrison 2018, Péres-Bustos et al 2019Smith 2019). Oral history interviews document the use of quilting patterns to encode navigation for people escaping enslavement through the Underground Railroad (Tobin and Dobard 1999).…”

Section: Textiles Technology and Liberatory Potentialmentioning

confidence: 95%

The Bias Cut: Toward a Technopoetics of Algorithmic Systems

Rosner

2022

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This essay explores a material engagement with discourses of bias. At a time when the developers of algorithmic systems are exploring concepts of bias like never before, textile bias (or the skew of woven material) offers an alternative view into the scripts of computational engagement. To probe this potential, this essay engages a range of feminist and anti-racist interventions in performance arts, critical archival studies, and my own pedagogical collaborations. With these experiments, I ask, how might material bias inform ongoing analysis of cultural bias within machine learning systems? The experiments reveal interwoven dynamics of power, labor, and historicity with particular attention to complicity and change. Through angular encounters with bias, I explore the development of an emerging technopoetics of algorithmic systems.

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Quilting as a Qualitative, Feminist Research Method: Expanding Understandings of Migrant Deaths

Cited by 8 publications

References 20 publications

Feminist methodologies in migration research

Feminist methodologies in migration research

Teaching and Learning in COVID-19: Pandemic Quilt Storying

The Bias Cut: Toward a Technopoetics of Algorithmic Systems

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