Abstract
While in the past decade there have been more ethnographic accounts that shed light on minoritized stories and demystify the specific challenges that women and femmes experience during their research, much is desired to prepare students and junior scholars from marginalized identities for fieldwork research. Reflecting on a moment of precarity in the context of pre-impeachment São Paulo, I explain why the integration of Black diasporic feminist thought, method, and praxis is critical to further decolonizing efforts in anthropology. Beyond reflection, this narrative calls for sustained politically active engagement to establish an anthropology of liberation.
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Mena, Meryleen
(2024)
"Notes on the Future Possibilities of Engaged Anthropological Research: Why Decolonizing Anthropology Needs Black Diasporic Feminist Theory and Methodologies,"
Midwest Social Sciences Journal: Vol. 26:
Iss.
2, Article 11.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.22543/2766-0796.1147
Available at:
https://scholar.valpo.edu/mssj/vol26/iss2/11
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