54.031 - Ethnographic Evidence and Erasure: What Is Knowable and What Counts as Knowledge

Session Type: Symposium

Abstract

Papers in this symposium examine the 2016 meeting theme of “Knowledge to Action” by responding to the questions exploring “how do we ensure that our inquiry and research questions are relevant?” The authors specifically inquire about notions of knowledge, practices of building evidence, and the dangers of epistemic erasure in data collection and analysis. Panelists bring their ethnographic research to bear on these concerns while also interrogating the structure of ethnographic inquiry itself. As educational anthropologists and members of AERA, the panelists respond to the meeting’s theme in the hopes of developing “new approaches to studying diverse and historically underserved populations, refinement of existing methodologies” (AERA 2017 Call for Submissions).

Sub Unit

• Division D - Measurement and Research Methodologies / Division D - Section 3: Qualitative Research Methods

Chair

• Arshad Imtiaz Ali, George Washington University

Papers

• What Makes Citizenship Sayable or Unspeakable? Habitus, Evidence, and Narrative in Mixed-Status Communities - Ariana Mangual Figueroa, Rutgers University

• Black and Latina/o Youths' Utterances as Evidence for What? - Danny C. Martinez, University of California - Davis

• The Ethnographic Record as Archive: Epistemic Tensions and the Construction of Evidence With Muslim Youth - Arshad Imtiaz Ali, George Washington University

• Empire and Place: Indigenous Longing and the Ethnographic Archive Along the U.S./Mexico Borderlands - Dolores Calderon, Western Washington University

Discussant

• Bryan McKinley Jones Brayboy, Arizona State University