Sentipensando and Unlearning

Castro, Laura Rodríguez

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“…Furthermore, feminist development scholars have particularly emphasized the importance of paying attention to emotion, the body and the everyday, in understanding gendered inequalities (Harcourt, 2009), whilst recent decolonial feminist thinking from Latin America has been especially important in foregrounding embodied and emotional understandings of women’s relationships to territory and place (Rodríguez Castro, 2020; Rodríguez Aguilera, 2022; Zaragocin, 2019).…”

Section: Disruptive Development Imaginaries and Extractive-led Develo...mentioning

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Between Hope and Loss: Peruvian Women Activists’ Visual Contestations of Extractive-led Development

Jenkins

2023

Progress in Development Studies

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This paper critically explores how women anti-mining activists conceptualize development, in the context of living with and resisting large-scale resource extraction in Cajamarca, Peru. I contend that participatory photography provides an opportunity to contest hegemonic development narratives and the notions of ‘lack’, ‘poverty’ and ‘progress’ that are bound up with such narratives, enabling participants to simultaneously evoke both hoped-for alternative futures and nostalgic renditions of a threatened present. Moving beyond an explicit and immediate focus on the socially and environmentally destructive nature of large-scale mining, I explore how the women instead document productive Andean livelihoods and everyday ways of life, capturing the ways in which hoped-for futures are enacted in the present. The women activists articulate their resistance through photography, identifying and celebrating practices of hope in their everyday lives and communities and providing an emotive counter-narrative to extractive-led neoliberal development discourses. The paper reveals that participatory photography approaches generate critical insight into the emotion-suffused ways in which development is understood by grassroots activists in contexts of extractivism.

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Section: Disruptive Development Imaginaries and Extractive-led Develo...mentioning

confidence: 99%

Between Hope and Loss: Peruvian Women Activists’ Visual Contestations of Extractive-led Development

Jenkins

2023

Progress in Development Studies

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“…That means that impact‐in‐process is also a form of critical and decolonised (un)learning, where the researcher reflects on their positionality. That means reflecting on oneself in relation to the research process and participants, and critically examining the power relations at play from the beginning of the process up to the interpretation and dissemination of the co‐produced knowledge (Rodriguez Castro, 2021; Sultana, 2007, 2019).…”

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“…I, and of course other researchers involved in the project as well, would (un)learn from the women. My position, then, as an educated, white, privileged person from the minority world needs to be reflected on in relation to the intersecting inequalities of race, ethnicity, class and gender in the Colombian, and specifically the women's, context (Rodriguez Castro, 2021). This reflexivity shifted me to a position of listening (Fairey, 2018) and trying to create feminist collaborative research and to co‐produce impact‐in‐process that involved relationships with others and challenged hegemonic power (Pain, 2014).…”

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Co‐producing impact‐in‐process with participatory audio‐visual research

Marzi

2022

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It has become increasingly necessary for geographers and social scientists to demonstrate the impact of their research beyond the academy, as part of the academic Research Excellence Framework (REF) 1 (Darby, 2017;Evans, 2016;Pain et al., 2011). However, critical and feminist geographers emphasise the shortcomings of linear and metrical conceptualisations of impact. Instead, they argue for a more process-driven and reciprocal approach (Evans, 2016; Pain, 2014) -a form of impact deriving from collaborative relationships, knowledge exchange, capacity-building and learning together, opposing extractive forms of knowledge production (Banks et al., 2017;Darby, 2017;Pain, 2014).Co-produced research involves an extended process that usually relies heavily on face-to-face interactions between researcher and participants (Marzi, 2021). In 2020 the COVID-19 pandemic brought such interactions to a halt. Travel restrictions and social distancing measures limited the ways in which researchers could be present with research participants in one geographical place. However, co-producing knowledge, including co-producing impact, has not become less important: rather, it is necessary to ensure that impact-focused research still holds the potential to create social change and benefit research participants. As a consequence, many researchers have altered their research plans and research designs, often with the help of digital tools (Howlett, 2022), to make up for geographical distance with new forms of digital proximity.

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“…As we commit to anti-racist and decolonial work, we have come to understand the shortcomings of much feminist reflexivity and positionality interventions in focusing too much on the ‘self’ without questioning the power structures that sustain colonialism and its geopolitical consequences (Mendia Azkue et al, 2017; Rodriguez Castro, 2021; Yuval-Davis, 2006). In moving away from ‘identity politics’ debates we turn our interventions to concrete actions that we can bring to understand how whiteness and the colonial project continue to operate in rural studies.…”

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An agenda for Australian rural sociology: Troubling the white middle-class farming woman

Pini

Castro

Mayes

2021

Journal of Sociology

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In reflecting on the last two decades of publications by Australian rural studies scholars in three major disciplinary journals, this article argues that the field of Australian rural sociology has failed to address racial inequality and class difference. While we note a burgeoning of feminist rural research challenging the historical emphasis on the white male farmer, this too has tended to occlude class and race, as is demonstrated in our analysis of the national ‘Invisible Farmer’ project. Accordingly, we point to a need to bring anti-racist work and scholarship to bear on our subdiscipline. In particular, we call for Australian rural studies scholars to engage with Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander scholarship to interrogate whiteness as a category of difference and to open a discussion about relinquishing settler power, including in the academy. We emphasise the need for actions to understand and challenge the continuing dominance and privilege of whiteness and the fundamentally classed colonial project in Australian rural studies.

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Sentipensando and Unlearning

Cited by 3 publications

References 18 publications

Between Hope and Loss: Peruvian Women Activists’ Visual Contestations of Extractive-led Development

Between Hope and Loss: Peruvian Women Activists’ Visual Contestations of Extractive-led Development

Co‐producing impact‐in‐process with participatory audio‐visual research

An agenda for Australian rural sociology: Troubling the white middle-class farming woman

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