Accompaniment with Im/migrant Communities: Engaged Ethnography

"Accompaniment" is a feminist, care-based, decolonial mode of ethnographic engagement that challenges researcher-participant, scholar-activist, and academic-community boundaries. It is an ethical commitment that calls researchers to action in solidarity with those whose lives they seek to understand. The volume is ideal for scholars, students, immigrant activists, instructors, and those interested in social justice work.

Format: Hardback
Length: 216 pages
Publication date: 31 July 2024
Publisher: University of Arizona Press

Accompaniment as Anthropological Research and Praxis: Challenging Boundaries and Engaging with Im/migrant Communities
Accompaniment as an anthropological research and praxis approach challenges the traditional boundaries between researcher-participant, scholar-activist, and academic-community, aiming to address issues of power, inequality, and the broader social purpose of the work. This volume brings together the experiences and voices of over two dozen contributors who demonstrate how accompaniment is not merely a mode of knowledge production but an ethical commitment that calls researchers to action in solidarity with those whose lives they seek to understand.
The volume explores the possibilities for caring and decolonial forms of ethnographic engagement with im/migrant communities, making it an ideal resource for scholars, students, immigrant activists, instructors, and anyone interested in social justice work. The contributors include Carolina Alonso Bejarano, Anna Aziza Grewe, Alaska Burdette, Whitney L. Duncan, Carlos Escalante Villagran, Christina M. Getrich, Tobin Hansen, Lauren Heidbrink, Dan Heiman, Josiah Heyman, Sarah Horton, Nolan Kline, Alana M. W. LeBrón, Lupe LÓpez, William D. Lopez, Aida LÓpez Huinil, Mirian A. Mijangos GarcÍa, Nicole L. Novak, Mariela NuÑez-Janes, Ana Ortez-Rivera, Juan Edwin Pacay Mendoza, Salvador Brandon Pacay Mendoza, MarÍa Engracia Robles Robles, Delmis Umanzor, Erika Vargas Reyes, and Kristin E. Yarris.
Accompaniment as Anthropological Research and Praxis: Challenging Boundaries and Engaging with Im/migrant Communities
Accompaniment as an anthropological research and praxis approach challenges the traditional boundaries between researcher-participant, scholar-activist, and academic-community, aiming to address issues of power, inequality, and the broader social purpose of the work. This volume brings together the experiences and voices of over two dozen contributors who demonstrate how accompaniment is not merely a mode of knowledge production but an ethical commitment that calls researchers to action in solidarity with those whose lives they seek to understand.
The volume explores the possibilities for caring and decolonial forms of ethnographic engagement with im/migrant communities, making it an ideal resource for scholars, students, immigrant activists, instructors, and anyone interested in social justice work. The contributors include Carolina Alonso Bejarano, Anna Aziza Grewe, Alaska Burdette, Whitney L. Duncan, Carlos Escalante Villagran, Christina M. Getrich, Tobin Hansen, Lauren Heidbrink, Dan Heiman, Josiah Heyman, Sarah Horton, Nolan Kline, Alana M. W. LeBrón, Lupe LÓpez, William D. Lopez, Aida LÓpez Huinil, Mirian A. Mijangos GarcÍa, Nicole L. Novak, Mariela NuÑez-Janes, Ana Ortez-Rivera, Juan Edwin Pacay Mendoza, Salvador Brandon Pacay Mendoza, MarÍa Engracia Robles Robles, Delmis Umanzor, Erika Vargas Reyes, and Kristin E. Yarris.

Weight: 454g
Dimension: 229 x 152 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9780816553440