World anthropologies network and activist research: towards building decolonial and feminist projects.

Casas Cortés, María Isabel

Resumen: The goal of this paper is to articulate a commonality between WAN and a particular activist research project, called Precarias a la Deriva. Acknoweledging their distinctive trajectories, I will try to illustrate possible points of articulation. While WAN is an explicit decolonial venture, Precarias a la Deriva is open about being a feminist project. However I believe that both initiatives share the following two traits: 1) a decolonial approach to knowledge production taking multiple sites of enunciation seriously as well as; 2) a radical feminist understanding of ways of creating a ‘common’ between singular experiences.
After a brief description of Precarias a la Deriva (PD) and the broader trend of activist research in which it is inserted, I will focus on the two traits I put foward are held in common between WAN and PD. I will follow with a brief discussion about how these de-colonial and feminist principles have been translated by other research initiatives, especially in the practice of ethnography. To conclude, I will present a research technique experimented by PD as a possible WAN methodology since it tries to enact those very de-colonial and feminist principles discussed through the paper.

Idioma: Inglés

Año: 2006

Publicado en: World Anthropologies Network e-journal (WAN) electronic journal 2 (2006), 75-89
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Tipo y forma: Artículo (Versión definitiva)