Decolonizing Ethnography

Undocumented Immigrants and New Directions in Social Science

Carolina Alonso Bejarano, Lucia López Juárez, Mirian A. Mijangos García, Daniel M. Goldstein (Autoren)

Buch | Hardcover

208 Seiten

2019
Duke University Press (Verlag)
9781478003625 (ISBN)

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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 LÓpez JuÁrez and Mirian A. Mijangos GarcÍa-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 GarcÍa and LÓpez JuÁrez 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.

Carolina Alonso Bejarano is Associate Professor of Law at the University of Warwick. She is also a DJ and a cartoonist. Lucia LÓpez JuÁrez is an activist who fights for equal rights for all people, a domestic worker, and a mother who cares for her home. Mirian A. Mijangos GarcÍa is a singer, songwriter, and naturopath. She is also a mother, an ethnographer, and an immigrants' rights activist. Daniel M. Goldstein is Professor Emeritus of Anthropology at Rutgers University and author of Owners of the Sidewalk: Security and Survival in the Informal City, also published by Duke University Press.

"broken poem" ix
Preface xi
Acknowledgments xv
Introduction 1
1. Colonial Anthropology and Its Alternatives 17
2. Journeys toward Decolonizing 38
3. Reflections on Fieldwork in New Jersey 59
4. Undocumented Activist Theory and a Decolonial Methodology 78
5. Undocumented Theater: Writing and Resistance 101
Conclusion 136
Notes 149
References 161
Index 179

Erscheinungsdatum	03.04.2019
Zusatzinfo	7 illustrations
Verlagsort	North Carolina
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	431 g
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie ► Völkerkunde (Naturvölker)
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-13	9781478003625 / 9781478003625
Zustand	Neuware