GerShun Avilez
- Published in print:
- 2020
- Published Online:
- May 2021
- ISBN:
- 9780252043376
- eISBN:
- 9780252052255
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Illinois Press
- DOI:
- 10.5622/illinois/9780252043376.003.0003
- Subject:
- Sociology, Gender and Sexuality
This chapter explores how Black diasporic authors use representations of immigration to redefine the relationship queer bodies have to place and to offer radical visions of freedom. It traces how ...
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This chapter explores how Black diasporic authors use representations of immigration to redefine the relationship queer bodies have to place and to offer radical visions of freedom. It traces how immigration creates conditions of vulnerability, specifically, the loss of privacy and control over one’s body, by looking at feminist ethnographies of Caribbean labor migrants to Canada and at the fiction of Makeda Silvera. From there, the chapter explains how queer writers claim fugitive movement as a way to escape forces that seek to control them and as a way to imagine freedom in the context of marginalization; the chapter does so by analyzing the historiographic and creative work of Dionne Brand. The writers discussed in this chapter reimagine marginalization resulting from immigration as an unexpected pathway of flight and fugitivity.Less
This chapter explores how Black diasporic authors use representations of immigration to redefine the relationship queer bodies have to place and to offer radical visions of freedom. It traces how immigration creates conditions of vulnerability, specifically, the loss of privacy and control over one’s body, by looking at feminist ethnographies of Caribbean labor migrants to Canada and at the fiction of Makeda Silvera. From there, the chapter explains how queer writers claim fugitive movement as a way to escape forces that seek to control them and as a way to imagine freedom in the context of marginalization; the chapter does so by analyzing the historiographic and creative work of Dionne Brand. The writers discussed in this chapter reimagine marginalization resulting from immigration as an unexpected pathway of flight and fugitivity.
Azza Basarudin and Himika Bhattacharya
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- April 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780252040412
- eISBN:
- 9780252098833
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Illinois Press
- DOI:
- 10.5406/illinois/9780252040412.003.0003
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Gender Studies
This chapter considers the significance of friendship in enacting feminist ethnography as well as the often hidden role friendship plays in academic rituals. Complicated friendships with ...
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This chapter considers the significance of friendship in enacting feminist ethnography as well as the often hidden role friendship plays in academic rituals. Complicated friendships with interlocutors inhere the praxis of feminist knowledge production even if they remain obscured or trivialized in the larger project of rigorous scholarship and “truth making.” Emotional entanglements, love, and affection are often at the heart of ethnographic projects and are intricately involved in the creation of ethical and revolutionary knowledge. Hence the chapter considers the place and role of friendship between people engaged in the research process and within systems of knowledge production that we pledge allegiance to and embrace.Less
This chapter considers the significance of friendship in enacting feminist ethnography as well as the often hidden role friendship plays in academic rituals. Complicated friendships with interlocutors inhere the praxis of feminist knowledge production even if they remain obscured or trivialized in the larger project of rigorous scholarship and “truth making.” Emotional entanglements, love, and affection are often at the heart of ethnographic projects and are intricately involved in the creation of ethical and revolutionary knowledge. Hence the chapter considers the place and role of friendship between people engaged in the research process and within systems of knowledge production that we pledge allegiance to and embrace.
Megan Moodie
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- January 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780226252995
- eISBN:
- 9780226253183
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Chicago Press
- DOI:
- 10.7208/chicago/9780226253183.003.0008
- Subject:
- Anthropology, Social and Cultural Anthropology
The last chapter expands the scope of the ethnographic account to reflect on aspiration and affirmative action as important sites of political inquiry in the contemporary world. Focusing on the ...
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The last chapter expands the scope of the ethnographic account to reflect on aspiration and affirmative action as important sites of political inquiry in the contemporary world. Focusing on the creativity of subaltern citizenship, it argues that such creativity emerges because of, not in spite of, proximity to those state institutions from which subalterneity is often seen as an exclusion. Looking at struggles for inclusion in the Scheduled Tribe category in Rajasthan and new uses of the Right to Information Act, the conclusion proposes that the ongoing work of feminist ethnography demands that we attend to how projects for social uplift can be both collective and differentially experienced based on axes of gender, age, and religious devotion.Less
The last chapter expands the scope of the ethnographic account to reflect on aspiration and affirmative action as important sites of political inquiry in the contemporary world. Focusing on the creativity of subaltern citizenship, it argues that such creativity emerges because of, not in spite of, proximity to those state institutions from which subalterneity is often seen as an exclusion. Looking at struggles for inclusion in the Scheduled Tribe category in Rajasthan and new uses of the Right to Information Act, the conclusion proposes that the ongoing work of feminist ethnography demands that we attend to how projects for social uplift can be both collective and differentially experienced based on axes of gender, age, and religious devotion.
