Alonso Bejarano / López Juárez / Mijangos García Decolonizing Ethnography

Undocumented Immigrants and New Directions in Social Science
1. Auflage 2019
ISBN: 978-1-4780-0454-7
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 208 Seiten

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Alonso Bejarano, Carolina

López Juárez, Lucia

Mijangos García, Mirian A.

Goldstein, Daniel M.

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde Minderheiten, Interkulturelle & Multikulturelle Fragen
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Soziologie von Migranten und Minderheiten
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

"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

Über Autor(innen)

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.