...Selina Makana Abstract This essay reflects upon both the predicaments and the promises of feminist ethnography in contemporary Africa from the position of an African feminist researcher. Two key questions guide the analysis: What are productive ways to respond to feminist critiques of representing...

..., Massachusetts. Her fields ofinterest include critical development studies, third world/ transnational feminisms, and feminist ethnography. Currently she is working on a book-length project entitled "'Transnationalism Reversed': Development and Women's Activism in Bangladesh." KATHYL. GLASSis Assistant Professor...

... Behar's personal approach to feminist ethnography. Rolando Estevez Terminado's image depicts Ruth Behar and Esperanza Hernandez as two very different women. Facing each other from opposite sides of the border, they appear to be distorted mirrored images of each other, or better yet, racialized others...

...: to.2979/meridians.16.2.17 363 My Positionality I've been particularly moved by the poetry of Nikki Giovanni, the ethnographies crafted by Zora Neale Hurston, the stories told by Sista Souljah, the song lyrics of Erykah Badu and the rap lyrics of Jean Grae. Because of these iterations of Black girlhood...

.... Creole Economics: Caribbean Cunning under the French Flag. Austin: University of Texas Press. Buckland, Theresa J., ed. 1999. "Introduction: Reflecting on Dance Ethnography." In Dance in the Field: Theory, Methods, and Issues in Dance Ethnography, 1-9. New York: St. Martin's Press. Chin, Elizabeth Joy...

... locate this discussion in light of ethnography, feminist literature, indigenous rights discourses, and cultural theory. Although parallel developments in feminist art history may be pertinent to this exercise, the field’s current lack of sustained engagement with indigenous communities at this time...

...). Myparameters locate this discussion in light of ethnography, feminist literature, indigenous rights discourses, and cultural theory. Although parallel developments in feminist art history may be pertinent to this exercise, the field's current lack of sustained engagement with indigenous communities...

... now differ (Andaiye 2004).5 As such, I borrow from C. M. Gurney's (1997) use of"episodic ethnographies" 6 to construct Andaiye's SHE WHO RETURNED HOME 43 life history here as a narrative snapshot7-a distillation of her recounting of several climactic events as pivotal to her growing sense of self...

... in the ethnography carried out in Campinas consisted of interviewing couples and single mothers regarding the everyday dynamics of housework. Although such topics as childcare, the gendered division of labor, and the use of household technologies were addressed in the interviews, what mostly interests me is how...

...., yet the experiences I discuss will likely also apply to other scholars and activists doing feminist research in their communities or countries. Conducting fieldwork away from one's own society is still the norm among anthropologists, but the meanings attached to the field of ethnography...

... include RacingResearch:MethodologicalDilemmasin CriticalRaceStudies (2000) and Feminismsand Antiracisms:International Strugglefsor Justice (2000). She is currently completing an ethnography, BearingBlackness in Britain. LORELEI WILLIAMS is a Harlem native who began writing poetry at the age of twelve...

... the conditions surrounding their participation in daily life. From this work, we see how the same historical vulnerabilities affecting Black girls in Chicago of the early 1900s still affect the lives of Black girls in Philadelphia a century later. Nikki Jones’s ( 2009 : 19) ethnography, Between Good...

..., the author traces the contours of an affective triangle between three mutually constituting emotional points: pleasure, shame, and disgust. Copyright © 2021 Smith College 2021 dance gender ethnography Telugu cinema transnational feminist praxis Works Cited Ahmed Sara . 2004...

... to space and place, in hopes of placing the sound and space literature in concert with ethnography so as to draw attention to the shortcomings of using a solely visual analytic of space. I then move to my analysis of Las Krudas' music-making as spatial RONNI ARMSTEAD LAS KRUDAS 131 practice, highlighting...

... history, ethnography, and embodied research in ways that critically interrogate the power dynamics of the process and engage a variety of sites and disciplinary perspectives. Settler colonialism is understood as an ongoing event that animates the study of the Pacific and unsettles contemporary experiences...

... by the state, by members of the nontribal and savarna caste communities, or by other members of the tribe in question. At the same time, working with the (im)possibility of discussing agency in the event of death presents a particularly potent challenge for feminist ethnographies ofviolence. Obviously...

..., most women were subordinate to most men" (2000). Indeed, speaking about African gender studies such as ethnographies by Amadiume and Okonjo discussed in the previous section, Carole BoyceDavies calls for the continued importance of the intersections of gender and class as "a critical lever of analysis...

... FilipinoPeasantWomen:Exploitationand Resistance;Stephanie Barrientos, Anna Bee, Ann Matear, and Isabel Vogel's co-authored Women and Agribusiness:Working Miraclesin the Chilean Fruit Export Sector;and Deborah Barndt's collection WomenWorkingtheNAFTA FoodChain:Women, Foodand Globalization. Combining sociology with ethnography, Lindio...

... was a novel and rewarding one for Ramabai, who had recently contested imperial power "at the heart of the empire," and penned through her letters a critical ethnography of British society (Burton 1998, 1, 3). It is this triadic relationship of India, England, and the U.S. which frames USLP-a critical...

... other Dominican women. I see her story as politically significant, with a keen sense that the insights I am able to gather through ethnography can produce new theories about the world as experienced by black people (Caldwell 2007 : 178). Moreover, as anthropologist Kia Lilly Caldwell affirms...