Decolonizing ethnography
Subtitle: undocumented immigrants and new directions in social science
By: Carolina Alonso Bejarano, Lucia López Juárez, Mirian A. Mijangos García, Daniel M. Goldstein
Contributors: López Juárez, Lucia, author; Mijangos García, Mirian A., author; Goldstein, Daniel M., 1965- author
Publisher: Duke University Press Books
Published: 2019
Language: eng
Number of pages: 184
ISBN-13: 9781478003625; 9781478003953; 9781478004547
Copyright date: 2019
Subjects: Critical pedagogy; Higher Education; Decolonization; Education and globalization; Eurocentrism; Social aspects; Ethnology; Anthropology; Methodology; Racism in higher education; Social Marginality
Description: In August 2011, ethnographers Carolina Alonso Bejarano and Daniel M. Goldstein began a research project on undocumented immigration in the United States by volunteering at a center for migrant workers in New Jersey. Two years later, Lucia Lopez Juarez and Mirian A. Mijangos Garcia-two local immigrant workers from Latin America-joined Alonso Bejarano and Goldstein as research assistants and quickly became equal partners for whom ethnographic practice was inseparable from activism. In 'Decolonizing Ethnography' the four coauthors offer a methodological and theoretical reassessment of social science research, showing how it can function as a vehicle for activism and as a tool for marginalized people to theorize their lives. Tacking between personal narratives, ethnographic field notes, an original bilingual play about workers' rights, and examinations of anthropology as a discipline, the coauthors show how the participation of Mijangos Garcia and Lopez Juarez transformed the project's activist and academic dimensions. In so doing, they offer a guide for those wishing to expand the potential of ethnography to serve as a means for social transformation and decolonization.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 161-177) and index.
Table of contents: title: Colonial anthropology and its alternatives; title: Journeys toward decolonizing; title: Reflections on fieldwork in New Jersey; title: Undocumented activist theory and a decolonial methodology; title: Undocumented theater : writing and resistance.