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Scholarship, Activism, and Activist Scholarship in the Americas
Julie Shayne, PhDLecturer
Univ Washington, BothellInterdisciplinary Arts & Sciences
Affiliate Associate ProfessorUniv Washington, Seattle
Gender, Women, and Sexuality StudiesLatin American and Caribbean Studies
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Taking Risks:Feminist Stories of Social Justice Research in the Americas
Under contract with SUNY Press Under review for Praxis: Theory in Action series
Case studies about social movements
Combined w/ discussions of
activist-scholar tensions
Image by Claudia Denegri; accessed fromhttp://ilga.org/ilga/en/article/n01NvGz1mP
About the authorsDegrees
Romance Languages & Lit
Cultural Studies Psychology &
Quantitative Methods Women’s Studies American Studies Theater Latin American History English Teaching Sociology Cultural & Social Anthro
Departments Spanish Psychology African Studies Theater Education Writing Program Latin American Lit Cultural Studies Creative Writing Interdisciplinary Arts
& Sciences Anthropology
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About the bookCases: Underground libraries, human rights & theater, feminist community media & video, domestic violence & immigrants, sex work advocacy, exile, rural feminism, and writing & reading as activism
Themes: Stories; fusion of activism, scholarship, theory, & reflection: praxis; resulting academic tensions
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Margaret RandallPreface
Margaret Randall, writer, poet, photographer, activist, and professor talks about decades of taking political, personal, and academic risks
Background image fromhttp://www.margaretrandall.org
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Julie Shayne & Kristy LeissleResearch, Risk, and Activism: Feminists’ Stories
of Social Justice
Themes in the Intro:1) Passion project2) Activist scholarship3) Stories4) The book as transnational feminist theory5) About risks
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Section one:
Texts, Stories, and
Activism
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Carmen RodríguezWriting and Activism
Power of language to oppress and liberate
Tension:Exile Image from the Ottawa
International Writers Festival webpage
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Mahala LettvinAbsence in Memories: Reading Stories of
Survival in Argentina
Representation of memory and absence in fiction and national monuments
Tension:Why read?
Why learn? Photos from: Dolff-Bonekamper, Gabi. (2002). “Sites of hurtful memory.” In Getty Conservation Institute Newsletter. 17.2 Summer
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Julie ShayneChilean Exiles and Their Feminist
Stories
Chilean exile feminism in Vancouver, BC
Tension: Sociology vs. social history
Images from They Used to Call Us Witches (Lexington 2009)
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Marisela Fleites-LearNavigating the Cuban Ideological Divide: Research
on the Independent Libraries Movement
Independent library movement in Cuba
Tension: Academic
freedom versus political activism
Photo by: Orlando Luis Pardohttp://vocescubanas.com/
boringhomeutopics
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Section two:
Performed Stories of
Social Justice
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Tamera MarkoWe Also Built the City of Medellín: Deplazadas’ Family Albums as Feminist Archival Activism
Counter-narratives of Medellín in their own wordsTensions: Building a transnational archive
among community and academy;
mobility of stories vs. mobility of the
women who tell them
Photos by Tamera Marko
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Robin GarciaWho Owns the Archive: Community Media
in Contemporary Venezuela
Community media collectives in Venezuela
TensionActivist
scholarship & intl. solidarity
Photos by Robin Garcia
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Christina MarínEchoes of Injustice: Performative Activism and the
Femicide Plaguing Ciudad Juárez
Uncovering the stories of the women of Ciudad Juarez
Tension: Insider/outsider engagement in
human rights issues through artistic representation
Photo by ©Jorge Uzon/AFP, Amnesty International
http://www.utsa.edu/today/2003/11/juarez.cfm
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Section three:
Activist Stories from
the Grassroots
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Erica WilliamsFeminist Tensions: Race, Sex
Work, and Women’s Activism in Bahia
Sex worker advocacy in Bahia, Brazil
Tension:How being an
African American woman, often
presumed to be a sex worker, effected
her research
“Without shame of being a prostitute … Without shame, garota. You have a profession”
From: http://www.pautafria.blogger.com.br/
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Roberta VillalónLatina Battered Immigrants, Citizenship and Inequalities:
Reflections on Activist Research
Latina immigrant survivors of intimate partner violence struggles for autonomy & citizenship in the U.S.
Tensions: Researcher/activist
and insider/outsider “My Soul Has Survived” by Andrea Wellnetz
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Shelly GrabeRural Feminism and Revolution in
Nicaragua: Voices of the Compañeras
Discussion of rural feminism in Nicaragua
Tension:Oral history vs.
quantitative psychology From: Movimiento Autónomo de
Mujeres (MAM) facebook.
Background image from This Week In History webpage
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Julie Shayne and Kristy LeissleConclusion:
Interdisciplinarity and Privilege
Interdisciplinary spaces are more open to activist scholarshipandactivist scholars must use our cultural capital in service of social justice
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Julie ShayneAfterward: Mother’s Day
Personal narrative on career versus quality of life
Anacortes, WA (Sept ‘11)Lopez Island, WA (Sept ‘12)
