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A personal, provocative, and boundary-breaking volume on the power relations that racialized, gendered, and sexualized researchers grapple with while conducting activist research.
Fugitive Anthropology is a transnational, intergenerational engagement that extends feminist theory, activist research methodologies, and the discipline of anthropology in new directions. Contributors examine the tensions that arise from conducting politically engaged, collaborative research alongside communities in struggle, in particular theorizing from the experiences of racialized women, queer, trans, and gender nonconforming researchers across distinct geographies. Essays contend with the matrices of colonial, imperial, and patriarchal violence that afflict the researchers and communities with which they seek political alignment.
Articulating an ethnographic practice grounded in Black and Indigenous political struggles and committed to collective liberation, the volume reflects on what it means to navigate violent relations of power, systemic inequities, and current onslaughts shaping field research and US academia. Ultimately, Fugitive Anthropology argues that a feminist ethos—one that embraces embodied knowledges and fugitive sensibilities—forges liberatory spaces that break from dominant masculinist frames of the "political" and challenge colonial regimes within and beyond the neoliberal university.
Contents
List of Illustrations
Introduction (Shanya Cordis, Maya J. Berry, Claudia ChÁvez ArgÜelles, Sarah Ihmoud, and R. Elizabeth VelÁsquez Estrada)
Artist Statement, Soil (2016) (Courtney Desiree Morris)
1. The Gendered, Racial, and Violent Politics of Fieldwork (DÁna-Ain Davis)
2. Fugitive Archaeology for Engaged Futures (Adriana MarÍa Linares Palma)
3. Embodying Sites of Memory: Fugitive Spaces for Black Feminist Community Histories (Cheryl R. Rodriguez)
4. Sanctuaries in Transit: Trans Migrant Fugitivity and the Geographies of Survival (Koyana Flotte)
5. Fugitive Dreams from Fieldwork (Mis)Recognitions (Maya J. Berry)
6. Co-Sentipensar-Accionar: Moments of Truth, Radical Relationality, and Fugitivity in the Field (Claudia ChÁvez ArgÜelles)
7. Fugitive Collaborative Research: Seeking Mutuality as Research Accountability (R. Elizabeth VelÁsquez Estrada)
8. Grief and an Indigenous Feminist's Rage: The Embodied Field of Knowledge Production (Shannon Speed)
9. Feminist Ethnography in Contexts of Multiple Forms of Violence (R. AÍda HernÁndez Castillo)
10. Feeling Grief in the Flesh: Toward an Emotionally Engaged Research (Meztli Yoalli RodrÍguez Aguilera)
11. M'Shatateh Ethnography: Embodying the Palestinian Borderlands (Sarah Ihmoud)
12. "Sigamos Parceira": Politics of Fidelity to Black Mothers' Epistemology of Antiblack Genocide (Luciane Rocha)
13. Fugitive Anthropology, Higher Education Administration, and Interstitial Institutional Change (Edmund T. Gordon and Charles R. Hale)
14. Accepting the Hatred: Quilombo Fugitivity and the Extraterrestrial Imperative of (Gendered) Antiblackness (JoÃo H. Costa Vargas)
15. How the River, It Flows: On Otherwise Fugitive Praxes and Calling My Body Home (Shanya Cordis)
Afterword: Cutting after Words (Joy James)
Acknowledgments
Index
