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Affect, race, and generative fieldsites in urban anthropology
| Content Provider | Scilit |
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| Author | Ramos-Zayas, Ana Y. Berg, Ulla D. |
| Copyright Year | 2018 |
| Description | Book Name: The Routledge Handbook of Anthropology and the City |
| Abstract | This essay examines the intersection of race and affect in urban anthropology by considering the political economy of ethnographic fieldsites where race, mobility, and affective density are salient. Drawing from our respective ethnographic projects among Andean Peruvian migrants (Berg) and Puerto Rican return-migrant youth (Ramos-Zayas), we develop the concept of “generative fieldsite,” in relation to traditional and recent anthropological understandings of “the field.” By “generative fieldsite” we mean a dynamic appraisal of “the field” that highlights the visceral and sensorial attributes of race and racialization processes that are particularly attentive to contextual and political-economic variables along with conceptions of individual interiority and self-fashioning. The specific transnational and colonial contexts in which our respective ethnographic projects unfold (Peru, Puerto Rico, and the US), and the emotional and affective transformations these contexts require of our interlocutors, provide a productive academic and political terrain to examine how racialized affect operates ethnographically in transnational urban contexts.This chapter examines the intersection of race and affects in urban anthropology by considering the political economy of ethnographic fieldsites where race, mobility, and affective density are salient. It analyzes configurations of race and affect particularly salient in urban sites in the Americas. The chapter considers the political economy of ethno-graphic fieldsites, by drawing examples from respective ethnographic projects among Peruvians and Puerto Ricans. It discusses the implications of a critical study of racialized affect for understanding not only contemporary urban dynamics but also the politics of "engaged anthropology." A critical perspective on racialized affect and the way it operates in the fieldwork encounter thus brings into focus the challenges that "difference" poses to liberal ideals of inclusion and tolerance. The chapter describes the provocative concept of the "generative fieldsite," in relation to traditional and contemporary anthropological understandings of "the field". |
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| Ending Page | 112 |
| Page Count | 13 |
| Starting Page | 100 |
| DOI | 10.4324/9781315647098-7 |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited |
| Publisher Date | 2018-10-03 |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Subject Keyword | Book Name: The Routledge Handbook of Anthropology and the City Cultural Studies Puerto Ricans Intersection of Race Anthropological Understandings Examines the Intersection Affective Density Ethnographic Fieldsites |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Chapter |
