Decolonizing ethnography: Undocumented immigrants and new directions in social science
Decolonizing ethnography: Undocumented immigrants and new directions in social science
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非殖民化民族志：无证移民和社会科学的新方向
DOI：
10.1080/14427591.2019.1694431
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发表时间：
2019
影响因子：
2.4
通讯作者：
J. Simaan
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作者：
J. Simaan
这本书提供了一个令人兴奋的新的方式前进的研究方法在人类学，社会科学和职业scientistsconsidering新兴的重点职业作为一种社会现象。这是共同撰写的两个参与者，研究人员，积极分子，研究助理，积极分子和大学教授，他们都有兴趣在学习，工作，并加强与无证移民在新泽西，美国的合作。作者阐述了他们的使命在“去殖民化”人类学的主要方法的查询民族志-通过绘制其历史。它们勾勒出人类学自世纪哥伦布登陆美洲以来与西方殖民主义的密切关系。他们声称，人类学及其方法有利于土地和人民的殖民化，殖民主义助长并加强了人类学和民族志。他们对“殖民主义”和“殖民性”做了有益的区分：尽管西方殖民主义可能在世界某些地方已经结束，但殖民性仍然存在于世界上仍然拥有大量权力的结构中。这些结构包括：种族主义、父权制、欧洲中心主义伦理、认识论和学术界产生知识的手段。这本书通过描述一项关于无证移民的研究，以及一个为美国这个最边缘化的社区提供服务的活动家团体的工作，提供了主流民族志的替代方案。作者提出了一个令人信服的论点，民族志是没有兴趣'提取'的数据，从那些被认为是'他人'的社会。相反，当社区成员自己有兴趣了解他们自己的群体及其实践，希望实现社会和政治正义时，民族志就被非殖民化了。在这些成员探索自己的做法的同时，他们正在接触他们可能从未接触过的移民。更重要的是，参与者-研究者-活动家
This book offers an exciting new way forward for research methodology in anthropology, the social sciences and for occupational scientistsconsidering the emerging focus of occupation as a social phenomenon. It is co-authored by two participant-researcher-activists, a research assistant-activist and a university professor–all of whom are interested in learning about, working with, and strengthening cooperation with undocumented migrants in New Jersey, USA.The authors set out their mission in ‘decolonizing’anthropology’s main method of enquiry–ethnography–by charting its history. They outline anthropology’s strong relationship with Western colonialism since Columbus landed in the Americas in the 15th century. They claim that anthropology and its method have benefited the colonisation of lands and people, and that colonialism has fed into, and strengthened, anthropology and ethnography. They make a helpful distinction between ‘colonialism’and ‘coloniality’: even though Western colonialism may have ended in some parts of the world, coloniality endures in structures that still hold a lot of power in the world. Such structures include for example: racism, patriarchy, and Eurocentric ethics, epistemologies, and means of producing knowledge in academia. The book offers an alternative to mainstream ethnography through describing a study about undocumented migrants, and about the work of an activist group that provides services for this most marginalised of communities in the USA. The authors make a convincing argument for an ethnography that is not interested in ‘extracting’data from those considered ‘others’ in society. Instead, ethnography is decolonised when members of the community themselves are interested in learning about their own group and its praxis, in the hope of achieving social and political justice. At the same time as these members are exploring their own practices, they are reaching migrants whom they might have never come in contact with otherwise. More so, the participant-researcher-activists