‘To my relations’: writing and refusal toward an Indigenous Epistolary Methodology

Cisneros, Nora Alba

doi:10.1080/09518398.2017.1401147

Cited by 11 publications

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“…As such, it is important to create a space within the research process that identifies and acknowledges this erasure. Moreover, it is important to recognize and dignify those who refuse to participate in CQPR studies because they, their cultures, and histories have been appropriated or eliminated from within the current framings of schooling (Cisneros, 2018;Sólorzano & Delgado Bernal, 2001).…”

Section: Methodological Processesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Policy Justice Through Critical Qualitative Inquiry: Examining the Issue of School Readiness

Brown

2023

Qualitative Inquiry

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Globally, policymakers, researchers, and educational advocates continue to promote normative neoliberal policies that frame the issue of school readiness through financial terms. Such an interpretation appears to require quantitative research to participate in policy and research conversations around this issue. In this article, I seek to disrupt this policy logic by examining how critical qualitative policy research can study the issue of school readiness and generate policy knowledge to address this complex issue. I also discuss how critical qualitative policy researchers can continue to produce useful knowledge and tangible policies through their work to change the current neoliberal policy world.

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Section: Methodological Processesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Policy Justice Through Critical Qualitative Inquiry: Examining the Issue of School Readiness

Brown

2023

Qualitative Inquiry

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“…Much the same as platícas, a critical race feminista epistolary methodology involves intimate exchanges that are documented in the form of letter writing and have the potential to heal. Cisneros [38] argues that an epistolary method as an act of writing is a refusal of white supremacy and colonial logic. When guided by critical race feminista theories, an epistolary method acts as a familial archive that strengthens the sense of self and belonging in community contexts [38].…”

Section: Community Memory: a Critical Race Feminista Epistolary Metho...mentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Cisneros [38] argues that an epistolary method as an act of writing is a refusal of white supremacy and colonial logic. When guided by critical race feminista theories, an epistolary method acts as a familial archive that strengthens the sense of self and belonging in community contexts [38].…”

Section: Community Memory: a Critical Race Feminista Epistolary Metho...mentioning

confidence: 99%

Grief (Work) Is Heart (Work): A Critical Race Feminista Epistolary Exchange as an Offering on Death, Grief, and Well-Being to Academia

Garcia,

Garcia

2024

Education Sciences

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This article centers around my work as a critical race feminista; an academic experiencing consistent attacks on the scholarship I produce while also being a tía (aunt), an active griever, and a godmother to my eldest nephew, Solano Garcia. This is the first time that my nephew and I will have shared our most private papelitos guardados (intimate guarded papers). In this article, we respond to the paucity of Black, Indigenous, and People of Color-centered death, grief, and well-being in academia. Using a critical race feminist epistolary methodology, we document our epistolary exchanges that contain dehumanizing attempts on our bodymindspirit matrices as active grievers of color confronting the premature death of my brother, who died at the age of 37 in the summer of 2021. Unlike the ‘western’ psychotherapeutic tradition of overcoming death and grief, we stake a claim, sit with it, and affirm it as an ongoing process. We argue that recognizing and affirming death and grief is a life-making process that creates spaces for healing through our epistolary offerings. This article aims to offer BIPOC faculty, staff, students, and their families life-affirming strategies towards radical self-care, love, and intergenerational collective healing within a sociopolitical context that operates as a surveillance mechanism.

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“…In this article we stitch care‐fully a series of letters we have written to each other. The letters reflect the relationalities we formed as co‐panelists at a professional gathering, and the subsequent reflections we shared with each other through what feminist scholars have described as an epistolary methodology (Cisneros, 2018; Davies & Gannon, 2006; De Robertis, 2017; Moraga & Anzaldúa, 1981; White et al, 2007). Grounded in transnational relational solidarities of dissent and epistemic justice, our letters reflect a plurilogue of what surfaced among us at the 8th International Congress on Community Psychology conference panel on Creating Inclusive Cultures and Healthy Communitie s, where we shared our activist community‐based inquiries nourished in solidarity with movements for justice and where we curated a transnational plurilogue about community research “with” not “on” communities and movements to which we align.…”

Section: An Introduction To Our Epistolary Pluriloguementioning

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Dissident women's letter writing as decolonial plurilogues of relational solidarities for epistemic justice

Fernández

Fine

Madyaningrum

et al. 2021

American J of Comm Psychol

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Braiding our words, “dissi‐dance,” and desires, this article engages how various social actors, and communities—which we are a part of and belong to—challenge structural violence, oppression, inequity, and social, racial, and epistemic injustice. We thread these reflections through our written words, in subversive letters which we offer in the form of a written relational conversation among us: a plurilogue that emerges in response to our specific locations, commitments, and refusals, as well as dissents. Our stories and process of dissent within the various locations, relationships, and contexts that we occupy served as the yarn and needle to thread our stories, posed questions and reflections. Braiding, threading and weaving together, we animate deep decolonial inquiries within ourselves, and our different cultural contexts and countries. Refusing individualism—the illusions of objectivity as distance, the academic as expert, and the exile of affect and emotion on academic pages—we choose to occupy academic writing and ask: What if academic writing were stitched with blood and laughter, relationships and insights, rage and incites? What if, at the nexus of critical psychology and decolonizing feminism, we grew an “embodied praxis?” Unlike academic writing, traditionally designed to camouflage affect, connection, relationality and subjectivity, these letters are unapologetically saturated in care and wisdom toward a narrative‐based embodied practice: decolonial plurilogues of relational solidarities for epistemic justice. Our plurilogue of dissent offers a view to advance community research and action with goals of liberation, decoloniality, and community wellness.

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‘To my relations’: writing and refusal toward an Indigenous Epistolary Methodology

Cited by 11 publications

References 5 publications

Policy Justice Through Critical Qualitative Inquiry: Examining the Issue of School Readiness

Policy Justice Through Critical Qualitative Inquiry: Examining the Issue of School Readiness

Grief (Work) Is Heart (Work): A Critical Race Feminista Epistolary Exchange as an Offering on Death, Grief, and Well-Being to Academia

Dissident women's letter writing as decolonial plurilogues of relational solidarities for epistemic justice

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