Can There Be A Feminist Ethnography?

Abu‐Lughod, Lila

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“…I believe, in the words of Abu-Lughod (1990), "that moving back and forth between the many worlds I inhabit is a movement within one complex and historically and politically determined world" (p. 27, as cited in Chaudhry, 1997, p. 451). Reflexivity also allowed me to look back into Arab Muslim culture and Canadian culture with a lens shaped by my reflexive insideroutsider experience.…”

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“…It involves a researcher occupying double positions, meaning that he or she is both a member of the researched group and an outsider relative to that group. Anthropologists usually occupy insider-outsider positions when they choose to conduct research on their communities (such as Abu-Lughod [1990] and Subedi [2006]). Insider-outsider researcher positions are usually seen to cause some form of discomfort for the researcher: "This sense of comfort or the belonging one feels can be problematic considering how 381 one may be viewed as an outsider and/or an insider when one is conducting 'home' research" (Subedi, 2006, p. 546).…”

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Reflexivity of Discomfort in Insider-Outsider Educational Research

Hamdan

2010

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This paper discusses my position as an Arab Muslim woman researcher who is affiliated with a Western university, researching Arab Muslim Canadian women. I discuss how reflexivity has emerged as an element of my research endeavours. Various notions of reflexivity in educational research have been expressed in the literature, yet I focus on what it means to me as an insider-outsider researcher and how it characterizes my research endeavours. In this paper, I explore the complexity of occupying these multiple subjectivities.Cet article explore ma position comme chercheure musulmane arabe affiliée à une université occidentale étudiant la vie des femmes canadiennes musulmanes arabes. J’y examine de quelle manière la réflexivité a émergé comme élément de mes projets de recherche. Bien que diverses notions de réflexivité aient été soulevées dans la littérature, je cible ce que cela signifie pour moi en tant que chercheure initiée et observatrice ainsi que de quelle manière cela teinte mes recherches. J’y analyse la complexité d’incarner ces multiples subjectivités

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Reflexivity of Discomfort in Insider-Outsider Educational Research

Hamdan

2010

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“…This approach framed reflexive recognition of a privileged biography as an initial step toward using that privilege to confront and reframe the power imbalances between ethnog-raphers and informants (Abu-Lughod, 1990;Bordo, 1990;Mascia-Lees, Sharpe, and Cohen, 1989;Harding, 1987), and/or to serve the larger cause of empowering women (Reinharz, 1979). Reinharz (1992:51) characterizes this latter form of "feminist ethnography" as having three goals: (I) to document the lives and activities of women, (2) to understand the experience of womcn from their own point of view, and (3) to conceptualize women's behavior as an expression of social contexts.…”

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Ethnography and anxiety: Field work and reflexivity in the vortex of U.S.-Cuban relations

Michalowski

1996

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“…Y, en esta tarea, el método etnográfico puede ser muy heurístico (Abu-Lughod, 1990;Avanza y al., 2015). De manera que, a partir de las reflexiones realizadas a lo largo del artículo, cabe destacar, al menos, cuatro alegatos.…”

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Sexo, raza, clase y etnografía de los movimientos sociales. Herramientas metodológicas para una perspectiva interseccional

Dunezat

2017

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Resumen. Privilegiando el enfoque francés de la consustancialidad de los rapports sociaux, este artículo propone relacionar los desafíos teóricos de la interseccionalidad con el trabajo empírico de cartografía social. ¿Cómo observar y categorizar sobre el terreno cuando intersecciona(n) clase, raza y sexo/género como dinámicas de diferenciación social? A la luz del feminismo materialista y constructivista, el artículo sostiene que el enfoque interseccional es muy heurístico para medir la diversidad dentro de un movimiento social, como lo ilustra con un «colectivo de apoyo a los sin-papeles». Finalmente, muestra que la mirada etnográfica está expuesta a formas de descontrol esencialista cuando se posa en las pertenencias de sexo o de raza y hace algunas propuestas para limitar tal descontrol. Palabras claves: Interseccionalidad; Sin-papeles; Metodología; Esencialismo.[en] Sex, race, class and ethnography of social movements. Metodologics implements for an intersectional perspective Abstract. By emphasizing the French approach of co-substantiality of rapports sociaux, this article proposes to link the theoretical issues of intersectionality to the empirical work of social mapping. How can we observe and categorize in the field when class, race and sex/gender intertwine as dynamics of social differentiation? Through the prism of materialist and constructivist feminism, the article argues that the intersectional approach is very much heuristic to measure the diversity within a social movement, as illustrated by a "undocumented persons support collective". Then it shows that the ethnographic perspective is exposed to some essentialist bias when dealing with sex or race and makes a few proposals to limit this bias.

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Can There Be A Feminist Ethnography?

Cited by 319 publications

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Reflexivity of Discomfort in Insider-Outsider Educational Research

Reflexivity of Discomfort in Insider-Outsider Educational Research

Ethnography and anxiety: Field work and reflexivity in the vortex of U.S.-Cuban relations

Sexo, raza, clase y etnografía de los movimientos sociales. Herramientas metodológicas para una perspectiva interseccional

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