Fugitive Anthropology

Shanya Cordis is a Black and Indigenous Warau/Lokono anthropologist and assistant professor of women, gender, and sexuality studies at Emory University. Maya J. Berry is a Black Cuban American anthropologist and assistant professor of African diaspora studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Claudia ChAvez ArgUEelles is a Mexican lawyer, anthropologist, and assistant professor of anthropology at Tulane University. Sarah Ihmoud is a Chicana Palestinian anthropologist and assistant professor of anthropology at the College of the Holy Cross. R. Elizabeth VelAsquez Estrada is a Salvadoran Nicaraguan anthropologist and assistant professor of Latina/Latino studies and anthropology at University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.

List of Illustrations Introduction (Shanya Cordis, Maya J. Berry, Claudia ChAvez ArgUEelles, Sarah Ihmoud, and R. Elizabeth VelAsquez Estrada) Artist Statement, Soil (2016) (Courtney Desiree Morris) 1. The Gendered, Racial, and Violent Politics of Fieldwork (DAna-Ain Davis) 2. Fugitive Archaeology for Engaged Futures (Adriana MarIa Linares Palma) 3. Embodying Sites of Memory: Fugitive Spaces for Black Feminist Community Histories (Cheryl R. Rodriguez) 4. Sanctuaries in Transit: Trans Migrant Fugitivity and the Geographies of Survival (Koyana Flotte) 5. Fugitive Dreams from Fieldwork (Mis)Recognitions (Maya J. Berry) 6. Co-Sentipensar-Accionar: Moments of Truth, Radical Relationality, and Fugitivity in the Field (Claudia ChAvez ArgUEelles) 7. Fugitive Collaborative Research: Seeking Mutuality as Research Accountability (R. Elizabeth VelAsquez Estrada) 8. Grief and an Indigenous Feminist's Rage: The Embodied Field of Knowledge Production (Shannon Speed) 9. Feminist Ethnography in Contexts of Multiple Forms of Violence (R. AIda HernAndez Castillo) 10. Feeling Grief in the Flesh: Toward an Emotionally Engaged Research (Meztli Yoalli RodrIguez Aguilera) 11. M'Shatateh Ethnography: Embodying the Palestinian Borderlands (Sarah Ihmoud) 12. "Sigamos Parceira": Politics of Fidelity to Black Mothers' Epistemology of Antiblack Genocide (Luciane Rocha) 13. Fugitive Anthropology, Higher Education Administration, and Interstitial Institutional Change (Edmund T. Gordon and Charles R. Hale) 14. Accepting the Hatred: Quilombo Fugitivity and the Extraterrestrial Imperative of (Gendered) Antiblackness (JoAo H. Costa Vargas) 15. How the River, It Flows: On Otherwise Fugitive Praxes and Calling My Body Home (Shanya Cordis) Afterword: Cutting after Words (Joy James) Acknowledgments Index

"Fugitive Anthropology interrogates the power asymmetries and dynamics in ethnographic research and scholarly production. The essays provide compelling narratives of what is possible for the field when we take seriously our roles as scholars in documenting racial patriarchy and resistance to that violence and shifting activist methodologies from the margins to the center of anthropological research and writing. This collection is a must read for students and scholars interested in how to do ethical research while also being honest about the complexities and tensions involved in producing knowledge that advances social liberation." - Keisha-Khan Y. Perry, University of Pennsylvania, author of Black Women against the Land Grab: The Fight for Racial Justice in Brazil "Fugitive Anthropology is a bold and lucid endeavor. At once methodologically unruly and astute, critically engaging and meticulously argued, its razor-sharp analytics are a testament to the power of 'theory in the flesh." - Rosa-Linda Fregoso, University of California, Santa Cruz, author of The Force of Witness: Contra Feminicide