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A personal, provocative, and boundary-breaking volume on the power relations that racialized, gendered, and sexualized researchers grapple with while conducting activist research. Fugitive Anthropology is a transnational, intergenerational engagement that extends feminist theory, activist research methodologies, and the discipline of anthropology in new directions. Contributors examine the tensions that arise from conducting politically engaged, collaborative research alongside communities in struggle, in particular theorizing from the experiences of racialized women, queer, trans, and gender nonconforming researchers across distinct geographies. Essays contend with the matrices of colonial, imperial, and patriarchal violence that afflict the researchers and communities with which they seek political alignment. Articulating an ethnographic practice grounded in Black and Indigenous political struggles and committed to collective liberation, the volume reflects on what it means to navigate violent relations of power, systemic inequities, and current onslaughts shaping field research and US academia. Ultimately, Fugitive Anthropology argues that a feminist ethos—one that embraces embodied knowledges and fugitive sensibilities—forges liberatory spaces that break from dominant masculinist frames of the “political” and challenge colonial regimes within and beyond the neoliberal university.

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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

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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 ChÁvez ArgÜelles 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 VelÁsquez Estrada is a Salvadoran Nicaraguan anthropologist and assistant professor of Latina/Latino studies and anthropology at University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.

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