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Taking Risks Presentation prepared for PSA

March 2011 Julie Shayne

UW BothellInterdisciplinary Arts and Sciences

UW SeattleGender, Women

and Sexuality Studies &

Latin American and Caribbean Studies

copyright Julie Shayne 2011 ©

Today’s talk:Taking Risks:

Feminists, Activism, and Activist Research in the AmericasOrigins of the book projectOur common questionsThe contributorsOur research projects and tensionsHow do we…? Feedback from the audience


Origin of the book

Imagining America: Artists and Scholars in Public Life conference~ September 2010

IA’s mission is “to realize the democratic, public, and civic purposes

of American higher education.”

Image from Imagining America website


General themes

1) Why do certain types of scholarship “not count?”

2) Why does family first lead to professional instability?

3) Why do political convictions taint our academic credibility?

4) How do we represent the different voices?

5) How do we navigate these divides?


ContributorsWe have advanced degrees in:

Art History Human Development Latin American History Romance Languages and Literature Sociology Theater Women’s Studies


We teach in…

Interdisciplinary Arts and SciencesPerforming Arts & TheaterSpanishWomen’s StudiesWriting


Names & affiliation

Vero Barrera, UW Seattle & Bothell

Deborah Caplow, UW Bothell

Marisela Fleites-Lear, Green River CC

Christina Marín, Emerson College

Tamera Marko, DukeEngage Colombia & Emerson College

Jennifer Musto, UCLA

Julie Shayne, UW BothellImage from Women in London: http://www.womeninlondon.org.uk/info/info-0803.htm


Margaret RandallPreface

Margaret Randall, writer, poet, photographer, activist, and professor will talk about decades of taking political, personal, and academic risks


Julie ShayneWitches versus Sociologists

Chilean exile feminists and the anti-Pinochet solidarity movement

Tensions: Sociology vs social

historyBackground image from Chile from within (WW Norton, 1990); witch graphic from They Used to Call Us Witches (Lexington, 2009)


Vero Barrera Ethnography from a Body Inside Out:

Toward a Politically Engaged Ethnographic Practice

Current human rights activists in Chile and the reshaping of gender

Tension:Activists' intimate narratives and the ethnographic gaze

Photos by Vero Barrera


Deborah CaplowPolitical Art in Oaxaca

Graffiti and political prints in Mexico past and present

Tension:Inside and outside:

Researching Mexican political art as an American and

an academicPhoto by Deborah Caplow; background image, cover of Leopoldo Méndez: Revolutionary art and the Mexican print by Deborah Caplow (UT Press, 2007)


Marisela Fleites-LearDistrust of the Left and Right: Navigating the Cuban Divide

Independent library movement in Cuba

Tension: Academic

freedom versus political activism

Photo by: Orlando Luis Pardohttp://vocescubanas.com/

boringhomeutopics


Tamera MarkoViolence is not the whole story: 1,000 women's

stories of resilience in Medellin, Colombia

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


Christina MarínStaging Femicide:

Arts-based Activism through Theater

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 Internationalhttp://www.utsa.edu/today/2003/11/juarez.cfm


Jennifer MustoCollected Recollections of

Human Trafficking

Action research project on human trafficking and forced labor in the US

Tension: Politics of representing survivor-

driven social justice movement vs.

professionalized anti-violence/human rights

workImages by Jennifer Musto


Julie ShayneMother’s Day

A personal narrative on career versus quality of life

Tensions:Mentors and

this topic; Family first as

the wrong approach


How do we…Not alienate colleagues?

Present a theoretically & methodologically compelling

book?Not sound self-righteous?

Identify an audience?Add some sociologists?


Call for Papers:Proposal of 900 (or less) words Proposals should clearly explain:

1) your research and tensions

2) how you will present them in an academically compelling wayA 150 word abstract A two-page CV Deadline for submission: June 13, 2011


Contact info:[email protected]

duwww.julieshayne.net

425.352.3182


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