On a Dentist Chair

Colonial Patriarchal Violence and Everyday Forms of Sexual Harassment

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ID12412366
AuthorsNathalia P Hernández Ochoa (0000-0003-2994-4980, Teresa Lozano Long Institute of Latin American Studies, the University of Texas-Austin, Austin, TX, USA, corresponding author)
Year2022
Volume30
Issue3
Pages340-362
Publication date2022-06-15
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueThe Journal of Men s Studies (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1060-8265 • E-ISSN: 1933-0251
PublisherSAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/10608265221108202
OpenAlexW4282966220
LanguageEN
References cited18

This article is a poetic narrative in the spirit of resistance. It is based on an experience of sexual harassment I had at a dentist’s office in Antigua, Guatemala while conducting ethnographic research. I share an autoethnography, which is analyzed through feminist and historical lenses to highlight how the colonial patriarchal system and its coloniality of power continue to provide fertile ground for everyday forms of sexual harassment in Guatemala. In addition, I explore how power relations are malleable, dynamic, and even unpredictable depending on the bodies we inhabit as researchers. This is an invitation to look within and expand our discussions about the implications of experiencing sexual harassment while conducting research whether we are “in” or “out” of the field. Acknowledging these complexities is crucial to our searches for decolonial practices within the field of ethnography and within the process of academic knowledge production

Art · Autoethnography · Colonialism · Ethnography · Harassment · Literature · Narrative · Political science · Power (physics · Resistance (ecology · Sociology · Anthropology · Gender Studies · Gender, Security, and Conflict · Law · Psychology · Qualitative Research Methods and Ethics · Sex work and related issues · Social Psychology

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