Militant ethnography and autonomous politics in Latin America

Valenzuela-Fuentes, Katia

doi:10.1177/1468794118787712

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“…This notion of extractivism in research also links to how ethnography might be undertaken among Latin American resistance politics. Valenzuela-Fuentes (2019) reflects on her unease at carrying out ethnographic fieldwork among Chilean activists while taking her data back to a European university for production into a PhD submission. In response to this, a methodological switch takes place where the researcher prioritizes an on-going process of collaboration and solidarity over the abstraction of research data.…”

Section: Militant Design Researchmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…In practical terms, this involves adopting an immersive approach that ‘rejects detachment between thinking and doing politics and the understanding of researchers as experts who will explain the movements [we work with] through disembodied knowledge’ (Valenzuela-Fuentes, 2019: 723). This means giving precedence to political and everyday actions that address the concrete collective needs of the people we work with, rather than academic demands that commonly involve long production circles, addressing a particular reduced audience.…”

Section: Committing To Tensionsmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Pictograms for resistance: historicity and militant design research in Amazonian Ecuador

Pinto,

Julier,

Tapia

2023

Journal of Visual Culture

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This article focuses on the experiences of developing and using pictograms as visual devices to support Indigenous communities of Amazonian Ecuador. It recognizes the imbalances and contradictions amidst the complex histories and identities of a Latin American state such as Ecuador. The authors emphasize the need to decolonize the design activist imagination and highlight two key issues. The first is in appreciating how historicity operates in this context. The authors show how a non-teleological, historical consciousness is central to processes of deliberation and collaboration. Secondly, they introduce the concept of ‘militant design research’ to understand the role of the activist researcher in this context. These reflections challenge European and North American conceptions of design activism and social design. Consequently, the design-researcher’s subject position shifts away from an extractivist mode and, instead, commits to the tensions and Indigenous political processes within which the pictograms function.

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Section: Militant Design Researchmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Committing To Tensionsmentioning

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Pictograms for resistance: historicity and militant design research in Amazonian Ecuador

Pinto,

Julier,

Tapia

2023

Journal of Visual Culture

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“…In the anti-oppressive research tradition, researchers are expected to minimize hierarchical structures and practices as they work towards horizontality (Valenzuela-Fuentes, 2019). We found that Interpretive Description was helpful in this regard as it has focused since its inception on shifting power differentials within both research process and product.…”

Section: Using Power and Privilege Wiselymentioning

confidence: 99%

Exploring the Expansive Properties of Interpretive Description: An Invitation to Anti-oppressive Researchers

Ocean,

Montgomery,

Jamison

et al. 2022

International Journal of Qualitative Methods

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There is an ever-present need to challenge, create, and expand upon qualitative research approaches in the applied and practice disciplines to avoid repeating mistakes of the past and to realize a research agenda for socially just practice. Toward these goals, anti-oppressive researchers engage with a variety of methodologies to co-produce accounts that reflect a comprehensive understanding of social problems with the people who experience them and to enact solutions for real world change. In this article, we reflect on the manner in which Interpretive Description may be a useful option for anti-oppressive researchers to consider as a methodological approach in meeting these philosophical and practical aspirations. We find that Interpretive Description offers guidance toward building the foundation, bringing your whole self to the research, remaining responsive to people, valuing people’s expert perspective of their own experience, using power and privilege wisely, broadening contributors and consumers of research, embracing complications and variations, and enacting change. To illustrate this, we share examples from a participatory, anti-oppressive Interpretive Description study conducted by a team comprised of an inter-racial coalition of students, alumni, and faculty. Collectively, we investigated Black graduate student experiences of racism, inclusion, and expansion within a historically and primarily White university. This case example illustrates our contention that, as our commitment to anti-oppressive research and practice in the applied disciplines intensifies, Interpretive Description is well situated to help us advance practice knowledge in a manner that is transparent, equitable and credible.

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“…Starodub, 2019), these scholar-activists mainly employed a participant observation or (auto)ethnographic method of militant research (see Apoifis, 2016Apoifis, , 2017U. Gordon, 2012;Graeber, 2009;Halvorsen, 2015;Juris, 2007;Russell, 2015;Valenzuela-Fuentes, 2018). Dialoguing with their writing allowed me to pre-empt many of the difficulties facing this method in Calais.…”

Section: Ethics Of Militant Research and Producing Knowledge Of Migrationmentioning

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Counter-mapping citizenship: bordering through domicide in Calais, France

Isacker¹

2020

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This thesis analyses how anti-migrant domicide functions as a technology of citizenship in Calais, France. Evictions, destructions, and securitisations exclude 'non-citizen' migrants from this border city, defining those allowed to exist within it as citizens by contrast. They also destroy the physical infrastructures, social communities, and political solidarities facilitating migrants' irregular journeys to the UK. Thus, the erasure of irregular migrants' autonomous home-spaces reproduces citizenship while reasserting it as the determinant of who can freely exist in, or move beyond, Calais. However, anti-migrant domicide also produces unconventional citizenships beyond nationality or status. The thesis analyses two examples---environmental and humanitarian citizenship---to show how citizen communities in Calais can reconfigure themselves around alternative, nominally more inclusive, sets of values while continuing to exclude irregular migrants. In these cases citizens define themselves either against migrants who are perceived as failing to fulfil citizenship's substantive criteria, or through migrants who are the object of citizen-defining humanitarian or environmentalist performances. While not immediately excluded by their status, migrants 'non-citizens' because of their racialisation in Calais' racist environment and how this has been compounded by the effects of domicide against them.Counter-mapping in this project takes three different forms: cartographic, presenting a map of domicide between 2009-19; narrative, elaborating descriptions of select case studies in Calais' anti-migrant domicidal history; and conceptual, demonstrating how citizenship is produced by these exclusionary spatial interventions. These three modes are combined to map how migrants' spatial exclusion from Calais' 'spaces of citizenship' and their socio-political exclusion reciprocally reinforce one-another.While countering progressive conceptions of citizenship by showing how all citizenship forms analysed in Calais are constituted through migrants' exclusion, the thesis raises questions for the continued invocation of citizenship politics in scholarly analyses of resistance to the border regime. It also argues for the need to (re)create spaces of anti-citizenship as part of struggles for free movement for all. These spaces prefigure coalitional relations beyond citizenship categories, and provide toe-holds from which to resist their institutionalisation in bordering technologies.

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Militant ethnography and autonomous politics in Latin America

Cited by 10 publications

References 24 publications

Pictograms for resistance: historicity and militant design research in Amazonian Ecuador

Pictograms for resistance: historicity and militant design research in Amazonian Ecuador

Exploring the Expansive Properties of Interpretive Description: An Invitation to Anti-oppressive Researchers

Counter-mapping citizenship: bordering through domicide in Calais, France

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