The Political Economy of Resistance and Self‐Destruction in the Crack Economy

BOURGOIS, PHILIPPE

doi:10.1111/j.1749-6632.1995.tb17388.x

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“…Ethnographers use a variety of strategies to carefully mitigate the potential harm caused by representing actors who participate in our research. Some ethnographers use direct quotes via lengthy passages of transcription (Behar 1993;Bourgois 1995;Johnson 2008) or embedded in a prose narrative (Hurston 1998;Stack 1996). Laurie Thorp believes that the best data is gathered not through interviews but rather in "heartfelt conversations" that are later transcribed in a process she calls "retrospective fieldwork" (2006,120).…”

Section: Culture and Powermentioning

confidence: 99%

Sheltering: Care Tactics for Ethnography Attentive to Intersectionality and Underrepresentation in Technoscience

Carrigan

2023

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Designing ethnographic research on the technoscience workforce according to intersectionality theory presents both opportunities and constraints. On the one hand, the pursuit of justice in technoscience requires attending to differences between scientists who have been disenfranchised from knowledge production due to racism and sexism. On the other hand, sharing the lived experiences of severely underrepresented members of technoscience heightens the risk of harm. I introduce a practice called Sheltering, inspired by the computer science technique of “black boxing” and feminist methodology of “strong objectivity.” The opacity of the shelter in which some data resides is balanced with the transparency of the researcher’s positionality. Combining reflexivity, refusal, and performative design, Sheltering contests dominant norms in science, while minimizing risks of retaliation to collaborators. It also balances communal responsibilities with research integrity. It not only requires consideration for the researcher’s relationship with collaborators, but also attention to power in the worlds they navigate and solidarity in their struggles. Sheltering, a repertoire of care tactics to protest epistemic and social injustice in US knowledge production, can help transform who gets to produce science and reimagine other ways of knowing.

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Section: Culture and Powermentioning

confidence: 99%

Sheltering: Care Tactics for Ethnography Attentive to Intersectionality and Underrepresentation in Technoscience

Carrigan

2023

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“…Most observers agree that the development of crack cocaine in the early 1980s contributed significantly to the increasing level of violence in New York City. 58,59 Crack use spread quickly in the homeless shelters. In addition, high rates of youth unemployment caused by the recession of the early 1980s and federal cuts in job training programs provided the crack industry with a ready, willing, and able marketing force of young people.…”

Section: Homicidementioning

confidence: 99%