Race and Refugeity

Ethnocinema as Radical Pedagogy

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ID2385483
AuthorsD X Harris (0000-0002-1138-8229, corresponding author), Anne Harris (0000-0002-3179-729X, Victoria University, Melbourne, Australia,)
Year2010
Volume16
Issue9
Pages768-777
Publication date2010-11-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueQualitative Inquiry (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1077-8004 • E-ISSN: 1552-7565
PublisherSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/1077800410374445
OpenAlexW1996255600
LanguageEN
Citations received17
References cited17

This article introduces Cross-Marked: Sudanese Australian Young Women Talk Education, a series of seven short films made collaboratively with Sudanese young women from refugee backgrounds, examining their education experiences in Australia. The author frames this research through the emerging practice of ethnocinema and its relationship with ethnographic documentary. The coparticipants examine the prevailing social conditions for connectedness/disconnectedness in the context of a sometimes-hostile contemporary educational climate, as does the author/researcher through autoethnographic reflections on practice. The films use a "performative ethnography" to disrupt the folds and pleats of conventional stories told of and about the pedagogies of belonging and becoming. The films draw on the informants' social practices of self to trouble teleological narratives of identity, and they offer a territory of possibilities for learning to "see more critically, think at a more critical level, and to recognise the forces that subtly shape their lives" (Kincheloe & McLaren

Aesthetics · Autoethnography · Context (archaeology · Ethnography · Identity (music · Literature · Media studies · Narrative · Pedagogy · Performative utterance · Sociology · Anthropology · Children's Rights and Participation · Gender Studies · Global Educational Policies and Reforms · History · Literacy, Media, and Education

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