Decolonizing Ethnography

Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung The coauthors of Decolonizing Ethnography integrate ethnography with activist work in a New Jersey center for undocumented workers! showing how anthropology can function as a vehicle for activism and as a tool for marginalized people to theorize their own experiences.

Autorentext

Carolina Alonso Bejarano, Lucia López Juárez, Mirian A. Mijangos García. and Daniel M. Goldstein

Zusammenfassung
The coauthors of Decolonizing Ethnography integrate ethnography with activist work in a New Jersey center for undocumented workers, showing how anthropology can function as a vehicle for activism and as a tool for marginalized people to theorize their own experiences.

Inhalt

"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