What If I Just Cite Graciela? Working Toward Decolonizing Knowledge Through a Critical Ethnography

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ID2385233
AutoresMariolga Reyes Cruz (0000-0003-4035-4535, Universidad de Puerto Rico en Cayey,, autor correspondente)
Ano2008
Volume14
Fascículo4
Páginas651-658
Data de publicação2008-06-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoQualitative Inquiry (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 1077-8004 • E-ISSN: 1552-7565
EditoraSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/1077800408314346
OpenAlexW2160998186
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas27
Referências citadas2

Calls for decolonizing knowledge have been heard from multiple fronts for some time. At issue are questions regarding who gets to claim knowledge, how knowledge is claimed, and how is one to go about gaining knowledge. This article raises questions about the actual practice of decolonizing academic knowledge focusing on the implications of having to claim sanctioned intellectual traditions to be considered a legitimate player. The author wrestles with the fact that people like Graciela, a woman who became an actor in her ethnographic work and shared her reflections about social life, are among the many nonacademics who are typically the subject of research but are rarely considered worth citing as part of one's intellectual grounding. The author brings her own experience doing a critical ethnography with Graciela and other Mexican nonacademics, including issues they raised, as a way of anchoring her questions in praxis

Critical ethnography · Epistemology · Ethnography · Praxis · Sociology · Subject (documents · Anthropology · Indigenous Cultures and Socio-Education · Philosophy