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HANDBOOK CHAPTERS
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Emergent Methodologies: Generative Possibilities in Community-Based Research
co-author, in-progress
co-author, in-progress
This dialogical chapter explores how emergent methodologies stem from community-based engagements with transdisciplinary feminist research. Emergent strategy is a framework through which to co-create transformative change; among other elements, the framework is interdependent, decentralized, non-linear, iterative, adaptive, and possibility-generating. It is with an emergent framework in mind that we highlight intergenerational mentoring within the context of Detroit, Michigan — a place which has deeply influenced how we participate in community-based research. We suggest that many of the ongoing place-conscious research practices and community collaborations in Detroit are, and have been, iterations of transdisciplinary feminism. Alongside Detroit-based intersectional feminists, philosophers, theorists, and community organizers and activists such as adrienne maree brown and her mentor Grace Lee Boggs, therefore, we examine how emergent strategies work to create transformative change within local communities and, as Boggs and brown observe, within ourselves. In taking up emergent strategy through the conversations and continuing dialogues for which Boggs calls, we aim to illustrate how — within transdisciplinary feminist research — the community-based actions that begin as modest, everyday practices have the potential to continue, expand, and sustain on much larger scales.
Transnational Migration and Research Ethics: Anonymization, Confidentiality, and Consent with Undocumented and Refugee Youth
co-author, in-progress
co-author, in-progress
In conducting participatory inquiries with youth across the Canada-United States border, we have encountered ethical complexities in research involving migration. Here, we discuss the ethical complexities in two cases, each from a recent participatory study. Together, these cases indicate the need to navigate macroethics and microethics when conducting participatory inquiries with transnational populations, particularly around issues of anonymization, confidentiality, and consent. Further, these cases illustrate the importance of attending to how participants self-identify. When individuals are treated as generic policy labels, they are given much less than they are owed with respect to their individuality.
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ARTICLES
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The Ethics of Naming in Forced Displacement Research
co-author, in-progress
co-author, in-progress
With a pedagogical aim, we offer an overview of some, though certainly not all, of the potential initial framing considerations in forced displacement research. We then engage with several of the key terms currently in use by international agencies before discussing how those terms can be (re)interpreted as they are taken up in transnational contexts. In attending to the ethics of naming throughout, we suggest that terms developed by international policy bodies should be approached situationally in disasters as part of humanitarian aid. Just as document-specific definitions need not go beyond the document, situation-specific terms should not become oppressive labels that have the potential to stigmatize people for the rest of their lives. Thus, we caution against assigning such terms as fixed identity categories, as they have the potential to reduce a person to a situation they may have once found themselves in.
Temporal Statelessness and the Oppressive Liminality of Perpetually Unfulfilled Hope: An Examination of Waiting
co-author, in-progress
co-author, in-progress
Narratives of migration can be without movement. When people are suddenly internally displaced, for example, they become noncitizens in their former home countries and are unable to move, much less leave. In instances such as these, we suggest it may be that a temporal — rather than spatial — displacement that has occurred. In so doing, we examine one aspect of temporal displacement: the perpetual state of waiting. As illustrated here, selected texts challenge notions that migration inherently involves forward progress, and instead show what can happen when both time and movement seemingly come to a still.