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by Shanya Cordis (Editor), Maya J. Berry (Editor), Claudia Chávez Argüelles (Editor)
A personal, provocative, and boundary-breaking volume on the power relations that racialized, gendered, and sexualized researchers grapple with while conducting activist research.
Fugitive Anthropology is a transnational, intergenerational engagement that extends feminist theory, activist research methodologies, and the discipline of anthropology in new directions. Contributors examine the tensions that arise from conducting politically engaged, collaborative research alongside communities in struggle, in particular theorizing from the experiences of racialized women, queer, trans, and gender nonconforming researchers across distinct geographies. Essays contend with the matrices of colonial, imperial, and patriarchal violence that afflict the researchers and communities with which they seek political alignment.
Articulating an ethnographic practice grounded in Black and Indigenous political struggles and committed to collective liberation, the volume reflects on what it means to navigate violent relations of power, systemic inequities, and current onslaughts shaping field research and US academia. Ultimately, Fugitive Anthropology argues that a feminist ethos--one that embraces embodied knowledges and fugitive sensibilities--forges liberatory spaces that break from dominant masculinist frames of the "political" and challenge colonial regimes within and beyond the neoliberal university.
Author Biography
Shanya Cordis is a Black Warau and Lokono anthropologist and assistant professor of women, gender, and sexuality studies at Emory University.
Maya J. Berry is an associate professor of African, African American, and Diaspora Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Claudia Chávez Argüelles is a Mexican mestiza lawyer, anthropologist, and assistant professor of anthropology at Tulane University.
Sarah Ihmoud is a Chicana Palestinian anthropologist and assistant professor of anthropology at the College of the Holy Cross.
R. Elizabeth Velásquez Estrada is a Salvadoran Nicaraguan immigrant, mestiza, anthropologist and assistant professor of Latina/Latino studies and anthropology at University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.
