TY - JOUR
T1 - Collaboration as resistance? Reconsidering the processes, products, and possibilities of feminist oral history and ethnography
AU - Benson, Koni
AU - Nagar, Richa
PY - 2006/10/1
Y1 - 2006/10/1
N2 - As multiple norths emerge in the so-called souths (and vice versa) and non-government organizations (NGOs) become important partners in knowledge production, it becomes imperative for feminist actors to envision new collaborative methodologies that can simultaneously resist the 'deradicalization of feminist politics' in the increasingly corporatized academy as well as in the increasingly donor-driven, professionalized, and state-identified NGO sector. Based on an extensive reading of literature on oral history and critical ethnography, this viewpoint identifies four interrelated areas where reflexive interventions by feminist collaborators working across geographical, sociopolitical and institutional borders can advance such a project: rethinking the relationships between processes and products of collaboration; more conscious interweaving of the collaborative theories and methodologies; producing knowledges that can travel across the borders of academia/NGOs/people's movements; and reimagining reciprocity in collaboration.
AB - As multiple norths emerge in the so-called souths (and vice versa) and non-government organizations (NGOs) become important partners in knowledge production, it becomes imperative for feminist actors to envision new collaborative methodologies that can simultaneously resist the 'deradicalization of feminist politics' in the increasingly corporatized academy as well as in the increasingly donor-driven, professionalized, and state-identified NGO sector. Based on an extensive reading of literature on oral history and critical ethnography, this viewpoint identifies four interrelated areas where reflexive interventions by feminist collaborators working across geographical, sociopolitical and institutional borders can advance such a project: rethinking the relationships between processes and products of collaboration; more conscious interweaving of the collaborative theories and methodologies; producing knowledges that can travel across the borders of academia/NGOs/people's movements; and reimagining reciprocity in collaboration.
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U2 - 10.1080/09663690600859083
DO - 10.1080/09663690600859083
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:33747622544
SN - 0966-369X
VL - 13
SP - 581
EP - 592
JO - Gender, Place and Culture
JF - Gender, Place and Culture
IS - 5
ER -