Toward a Fugitive Anthropology: Gender, Race, and Violence in the Field

Probably not a substantial claim. The paper may give no reason why it holds.

Patriarchal power dynamics within the collectivities we work alongside operate on our bodies in disciplining ways.

“Patriarchal power dynamics within the collectivities we work alongside operate on our bodies in disciplining ways.”

Probably not a substantial claim. It may be too vague to check against evidence. The paper may give no reason why it holds.

Our relative privilege as women who have completed graduate studies in U.S. institutions could distance us from the unforeseen consequences of our engagements in the field after we finish our research and leave.

“We acknowledge how our relative privilege, as women who have completed graduate studies in U.S. institutions, could distance us from the unforeseen consequences of our engagements in the field after we finish our research and leave.”

Probably not a substantial claim. The paper’s conclusions may not depend on it.

Others invited their friends, including army veterans, to practice more egalitarian gender relations.

“Others invited their friends, including army veterans, to practice more egalitarian gender relations.”

Probably not a substantial claim.

A gang member told the author he wanted a romantic relationship with her.

“Months later, a gang member told me he wanted a romantic relationship with me.”

Probably not a substantial claim. It may be too vague to check against evidence. The paper may give no reason why it holds. It may state two separate claims as one.

We are connected to the places where we work through familial ties, diasporic relationships, and investments in political struggles, all of which hold us accountable even after our departure.

“We hold this acknowledgment in tension with the consideration that we are not merely conducting research, but are connected to the places where we work through familial ties, diasporic relationships, and investments in political struggles, all of which hold us accountable even after our departure.”

Probably not a substantial claim. It may be too vague to check against evidence. The paper may give no reason why it holds.

Being marked as racialized women inevitably shaped our research projects and the lines of inquiry we pursued during fieldwork.

“Being marked as racialized women inevitably shaped our research projects and the lines of inquiry we pursued during fieldwork.”

Probably not a substantial claim. It may be too vague to check against evidence.

Our entrances and exits do not hinge on geographical border crossings.

“Our entrances and exits do not hinge on geographical border crossings.In a sense, the field travels with and within our bodies.”

Probably not a substantial claim. The paper’s conclusions may not depend on it. It may state two separate claims as one.

The Maya organization the author came to meet has been in open resistance to the colonial state's neoliberal project, struggling for political autonomy for more than two decades.

“I had come to meet with the leaders of a Maya organization that has been in open resistance to the colonial state's neoliberal project, struggling for their political autonomy for more than two decades.”

Probably not a substantial claim. The paper’s conclusions may not depend on it.

Women had fruitlessly pushed to get the massacre perpetrated against this organization during the 1990s recognized as a feminicide.

“I crossed paths with women who had fruitlessly pushed to get the massacre perpetrated against this organization during the 1990s recognized as a feminicide.”

• AssumptionRests on an assumption: The massacre was perpetrated against this organization during the 1990s.

Probably not a substantial claim. The paper’s conclusions may not depend on it. The paper may give no reason why it holds. It may state two separate claims as one.

Members of this pacifist indigenous organization were the targets of a bloody display of state violence in the 1990s, in which mostly women and children were killed.

“Members of this pacifist indigenous organization were the targets of a bloody display of state violence in the 1990s, in which mostly women and children were killed.”

Probably not a substantial claim.

The mentorship of Palestinian feminists, stories of women and children in occupied territory, and the author's own embodied experiences pushed her to examine the intimate, often elusive sites in which power is reproduced and contested.

“the mentorship of Palestinian feminists, stories of women and children in occupied territory, and my own embodied experiences pushed me time and again to examine the intimate, often elusive sites in which power is reproduced and contested.”

Probably not a substantial claim. It may state two separate claims as one.

The elder told the author that she would make it because of her Amerindian heritage, while the other girl was not able.

“With a terse nod he said,”

Probably not a substantial claim.

The embodied knowledge the author gained through fieldwork compelled her to re-envision a politically engaged anthropology compatible with black feminist teachings during both fieldwork praxis and representation.

“The embodied knowledge I gained through fieldwork has since compelled me to re-envision a politically engaged anthropology that is compatible with black feminist teachings during both stages of ethnographic research: while working in the field (praxis) and while representing that experience (product).”

Probably not a substantial claim. It may be too vague to check against evidence. The paper may give no reason why it holds. It may state two separate claims as one.

The lived reality of Israeli racial terror is not an abstract concept but an affective force that shapes the social bonds of the Palestinian communities the author cares about and is part of, and is viscerally experienced in her body and psyche.

“As a first-generation Palestinian American anthropologist, the lived reality of Israeli racial terror is not an abstract concept to learn about from my so-called informants in the field, but an affective force that comes to shape the social bonds of the Palestinian communities about which I care and am a part, one that is viscerally experienced in my own body and psyche.”

It may state two separate claims as one.

The author's body sometimes functioned as a human shield for more vulnerable populations, while at other times it was expected to serve as a resource to be shared.

“Sometimes it has functioned as a human shield for more vulnerable populations, while at other times it has been expected to serve as a resource to be shared”

Probably not a substantial claim.

The author experienced a dissonance and misalignment between her objectives as an activist researcher and an inherent need for redress.

“This dissonance manifested itself in a sense of misalignment between my objectives as an activist researcher and an inherent need for redress.”

Probably not a substantial claim. The paper may give no reason why it holds. It may state two separate claims as one.

Sexual violence and abuse against Amerindian women is prevalent in both hinterland and coastal communities, with deeply embedded naturalization of and apathy toward substantive solutions.

“This man acknowledged the prevalence of sexual violence and abuse against Amerindian women in both hinterland and coastal communities and the deeply embedded naturalization of and apathy toward substantive solutions to such violence.”

Probably not a substantial claim.

The ethnographic vignettes we have shared depict differentially situated locations within global structures of power.

“The ethnographic vignettes we have shared depict differentially situated locations within global structures of power”

Probably not a substantial claim. It may be too vague to check against evidence. The paper may give no reason why it holds. It may state two separate claims as one.

In each of our cases, working with decentralized, diffuse feminist political networks as well as more localized feminist organizations strengthened our politics of fugitivity and allowed us to devise alternative strategies that honored our embodied experiences.

“In each of our cases, working with decentralized, diffuse feminist political networks as well as more localized feminist organizations strengthened our politics of fugitivity and allowed us to devise alternative strategies that honored our embodied experiences.”

Probably not a substantial claim. The paper’s conclusions may not depend on it.

In previous fieldwork encounters, uninvited flirtatious remarks preceded other forms of harassment.

“the more I began to relive previous fieldwork encounters in which uninvited flirtatious remarks preceded other forms of harassment.”

Probably not a substantial claim. It may be too vague to check against evidence. The paper’s conclusions may not depend on it.

Discussing the violence continuum with the male leaders of the indigenous organization was extremely complex.

“Discussing this violence continuum with the male leaders of the indigenous organization was extremely complex.”

• AssumptionRests on an assumption: The Mexican state has attributed the massacre to intercommunitarian violence, while simultaneously using indigenous women's bodies to repress the struggle for indigenous autonomy.

Probably not a substantial claim.

These pathways emerged through the practice of collaboration with other women in the field, through which we were able to cultivate bonds of caring that extend beyond our bodies (of work).

“These pathways emerged through the practice of collaboration with other women in the field, through which we were able to cultivate bonds of caring that extend beyond our bodies (of work).”

Probably not a substantial claim. The paper’s conclusions may not depend on it.

Part of the author's paralysis stemmed from a void of spirit.

“I knew that part of my paralysis stemmed from a void of spirit.”

Probably not a substantial claim. The paper’s conclusions may not depend on it.

After several months of fieldwork, the author was still awaiting the organization's decision regarding an expanded proposal for collaborative research, the results of which could be used as evidence to support their ongoing struggle for truth and justice in international legal arenas.

“After several months of fieldwork, I was still awaiting the organization's decision regarding an expanded proposal for collaborative research, the results of which could be used as evidence to support their ongoing struggle for truth and justice in international legal arenas.”

It may state two separate claims as one.

In the process of sharing vulnerabilities with other women, deep sororal connections were formed, backed with a political commitment to help each other.

“In the process of sharing my vulnerabilities with other women, deep sororal connections were formed, backed with a political commitment to help each other.”

It may state two separate claims as one.

The courtship metaphor is commonly used in the region, but this organization publicly talks about collaboration in terms of brotherhood, not courtship.

“While the courtship metaphor is commonly used in the region, the way in which this organization publicly talks about collaboration is in terms of brotherhood (hermandad), not courtship.”

Probably not a substantial claim. The paper’s conclusions may not depend on it.

The author had naturalized several forms of microaggressions, especially while doing research on more atrocious expressions of violence like massacres and forced displacements.

“I realized how much I had naturalized several forms of microaggressions, especially while doing research on more atrocious expressions of violence like massacres and forced displacements.”

Probably not a substantial claim. The paper’s conclusions may not depend on it.

The author was asked to sit on a stool several feet away from a long table at which ten male leaders were seated.

“they asked me to sit on a stool placed several feet away from a long table, at which ten male leaders were seated.”

Probably not a substantial claim. It may state two separate claims as one.

Gang leadership published a memo emphasizing their desire to 'contribute to the pacification of the country' and critiqued researchers who sought to understand their activities.

“Days later, gang leadership published a memo emphasizing their desire to”

• cites Lemus and Martínez 2012Not matched

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It may state two separate claims as one.

Black women's labor in the casa particular was socially marked as menial or dishonorable, even as it was vital for the business operations of the house.

“Thus black women's labor was socially marked as menial or dishonorable, even as it was vital for the business operations of the house.”

Probably not a substantial claim. The authors may not put it forward as true.

The rival Mara Salvatrucha and Barrio 18 gangs had negotiated a national gang truce in exchange for government funds.

“Nine months later, on March 14, 2012, El Faro, a respected online newspaper, reported that the rival Mara Salvatrucha and Barrio 18 gangs had negotiated a national gang truce in exchange for government funds, portraying them in the article as”

• cites Martínez et al. 2012Not matched

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Probably not a substantial claim. The paper may give no reason why it holds. It may state two separate claims as one.

Sectors of the discipline that remain positivist, presume a putative objectivity, and efface questions of race, gender, and class assert a neutral stance that replicates colonial and extractivist forms of knowledge production.

“These sectors assert a neutral stance that, in fact, replicates colonial and extractivist forms of knowledge production.”

Probably not a substantial claim. The paper may give no reason why it holds.

These strands assume that rapport or intimacy with those with whom we are aligned necessarily results in more horizontal relations.

“These strands assume that rapport or intimacy with those with whom we are aligned necessarily results in more horizontal relations.5”

Probably not a substantial claim. The paper’s conclusions may not depend on it.

As a U.S. citizen and with the privileges associated with that designation, her presence upset the otherwise stable distribution of power in the white domestic sphere.

“As a U.S. citizen and with the privileges associated with that designation, my presence upset the otherwise stable distribution of power in the white domestic sphere.”

Probably not a substantial claim. It may be too vague to check against evidence. The paper may give no reason why it holds.

The givenness of fieldwork as an individualistic rite of passage often obscures its constitutive and interlocking racial and gender hierarchies and inequities.

“The givenness of fieldwork as an individualistic rite of passage often obscures its constitutive and interlocking racial and gender hierarchies and inequities.”

• AssumptionRests on an assumption: Fieldwork is structured by constitutive and interlocking racial and gender hierarchies and inequities.
• AssumptionRests on an assumption: The field in anthropology is the milieu for knowledge production.

Probably not a substantial claim. It may be too vague to check against evidence. It may state two separate claims as one.

Cultural capital can be understood as flesh and therefore we are always in danger.

“Cultural capital can be understood as flesh and therefore we are always in danger.”

• cites Da ´na-Ain Davis's (pers.comm.)Not matched

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The emblematic racially privileged male anthropologist and assumptive logics of doing ethnographic fieldwork undergird the discipline's implicit masculinist 'shut up and take it' mentality in reference to gendered violence in the field.

“We refuse the emblematic racially privileged male anthropologist and the aforementioned assumptive logics of doing ethnographic fieldwork, both of which undergird the discipline's implicit masculinist”

Probably not a substantial claim. It may be too vague to check against evidence.

The field travels with and within our bodies.

“In a sense, the field travels with and within our bodies.”

Probably not a substantial claim. The paper may give no reason why it holds.

The man of the house was libidinally compelled to re-establish an asymmetrical equilibrium by toppling her over onto the bed, reasserting white patriarchal dominance over her flesh.

“Accordingly, the man of the house was libidinally compelled to re-establish an asymmetrical equilibrium by toppling me over onto the bed, reasserting white patriarchal dominance over my flesh.”

It may state two separate claims as one.

Dominant strands of activist anthropology replicate that which they critique, by silencing the racialized, gendered researcher's embodied experience or by inscribing it in new colonial narratives.

“At the same time, we critically examine how dominant strands of activist anthropology replicate that which they critique, by silencing the racialized, gendered researcher's embodied experience or by inscribing it in new colonial narratives.”

Probably not a substantial claim. It may be too vague to check against evidence. It may state two separate claims as one.

Our relationship to our research subverts the assumption that the field inhabits an/Other time-space and the masculinist notion that the time-space of the Other is to be instrumentally penetrated and evacuated.

“Our relationship to our research thus subverts the assumption that the field inhabits an/Other time-space, as well as the masculinist notion that the time-space of the Other is to be instrumentally penetrated and evacuated.”

It may state two separate claims as one.

Women researchers can be accepted as political allies, but this alliance does not entail horizontal dialogues within the framework of gender equality.

“Women researchers can be accepted as political allies, but this alliance does not entail horizontal dialogues within the framework of gender equality.”

• AssumptionRests on an assumption: Salvadoran society socializes women and men to believe that domestic roles, such as childrearing, housekeeping, and serving men, are women's tasks, and that men should provide for and protect the family and assume roles of authority.
• AssumptionRests on an assumption: Most alliances are built upon strategic agreements where power dynamics exist.

It may state two separate claims as one.

To impress the author as a young woman, gang members shared stories about outfoxing the police, but they also had patriarchal gender expectations.

“To impress me as a young woman, they shared stories about outfoxing the police, but they also had patriarchal gender expectations.”

• AssumptionRests on an assumption: Salvadoran society socializes women and men to believe that domestic roles, such as childrearing, housekeeping, and serving men, are women's tasks, and that men should provide for and protect the family and assume roles of authority.

It may state two separate claims as one.

The supposed naturalness of her white Cuban attacker's behavior granted him impunity, leaving the onus on her to take responsibility for the consequences of having a black female body.

“The supposed naturalness of my white Cuban attacker's behavior granted him impunity, leaving the onus on me to take responsibility for the consequences of having a black female body.”

Probably not a substantial claim. The paper may give no reason why it holds.

These silences are linked, in part, to the persistence of patriarchy, its accompanying culture of male bravado, and attendant notions of meritocracy that shape the discipline as a whole.

“These silences are linked, in part, to the persistence of patriarchy, its accompanying culture of male bravado, and attendant notions of meritocracy that shape the discipline as a whole.”

Probably not a substantial claim. It may be too vague to check against evidence. The paper may give no reason why it holds.

The specificity that stems from our navigation of the field as black, brown, indigenous, and queer cisgender women provides pedagogically important insights into the practice of fieldwork and the conceptualization of a decolonized anthropology.

“We argue that the specificity that stems from our navigation of the field as black, brown, indigenous, and queer cisgender women provides pedagogically important insights into the practice of fieldwork and the conceptualization of a decolonized anthropology.”

Probably not a substantial claim. The paper may give no reason why it holds.

The notion of engaging in fieldwork is often approached by activist anthropologists in a gender-neutral way, one that still assumes an unencumbered male subject with racial privilege, to whom the field means a space far from home that can be easily entered and exited.

“Yet the notion of engaging in fieldwork is often approached by activist anthropologists in a gender-neutral way, one that still assumes an unencumbered male subject with racial privilege, to whom the field means a space far from home that can be easily entered and exited.”

Probably not a substantial claim. It may be too vague to check against evidence. The paper may give no reason why it holds.

Activist research that does not pursue epistemological decolonization will inevitably reproduce the very hierarchies of power it seeks to help dismantle.

“Activist research that does not pursue epistemological decolonization will, we argue, inevitably reproduce the very hierarchies of power that it seeks to help dismantle.”

Probably not a substantial claim. It may be too vague to check against evidence. The paper may give no reason why it holds.

These inequities structure the epistemic and ontological violence that undergird fieldwork.

“These inequities structure the epistemic and ontological violence that undergird fieldwork.”

• AssumptionRests on an assumption: Fieldwork is structured by constitutive and interlocking racial and gender hierarchies and inequities.

Probably not a substantial claim. It may be too vague to check against evidence. The paper may give no reason why it holds.

Given the naturalized rapeability of black flesh throughout the Americas, it was her status as a foreign academic that was out of order.

“However, given the naturalized rapeability of black flesh throughout the Americas, it was my status as a foreign academic that was out of order.”

• AssumptionRests on an assumption: Black flesh is naturalized as rapeable throughout the Americas.

It may state two separate claims as one.

Black women's relationship to the field is predicated on an ongoing struggle for recognition as sovereign humans, as well as scholars capable of producing valuable alternative understandings of social realities.

“Black women's relationship to the field is, I argue, predicated on an ongoing struggle for recognition as sovereign humans, as well as scholars capable of producing valuable alternative understandings of social realities.”

• AssumptionRests on an assumption: The author's experience of sexual assault and its aftermath is representative of the experiences of black women anthropologists in the field.

Probably not a substantial claim. The paper’s conclusions may not depend on it.

Because of her Amerindian heritage, the author would have to endure.

“Because of my Amerindian heritage, I would have to endure.”

The quote only partly states this claim.

In a context of gendered racialized state violence and heteropatriarchal rhetoric against 'anti-man,' the author's body constituted, informed, and shaped her methodology.

“In a context of gendered racialized state violence and pervasive heteropatriarchal rhetoric against”

Probably not a substantial claim. The paper may give no reason why it holds.

In an attempt to create respectful boundaries, the interviews we hold often reproduce the hierarchy of an all-knowing man lecturing a woman who is presumed naive and expected to listen.

“In an attempt to create respectful boundaries, the interviews we hold often reproduce the hierarchy of an all-knowing man lecturing a woman who is presumed naive and expected to listen.”

Probably not a substantial claim. It may be too vague to check against evidence. The paper’s conclusions may not depend on it. The paper may give no reason why it holds.

Our continued investment in the project of decolonizing anthropology suggests that justice, in some sense, exists.

“Our continued investment in the project of decolonizing anthropology suggests that justice, in some sense, exists.”

Probably not a substantial claim. It may state two separate claims as one.

Even as embodied spiritual praxis offers the author redress for her physical and spiritual selves, it must contend with everyday forces that seek to dismember, categorize, and alienate.

“Even as the spiritual as embodied praxis offers me redress for each of my selves-both physical and spiritual-it must also contend with the everyday forces that seek to dismember, categorize, and alienate.”

Probably not a substantial claim. It may be too vague to check against evidence.

As a mixed-black Amerindian outsider, the author's story might be met with hostility or outright disbelief.

“As a mixed-black Amerindian outsider, my story might be met with hostility or outright disbelief.”

Probably not a substantial claim. It may be too vague to check against evidence. The paper may give no reason why it holds.

To call for increased visibility of the particular struggles that anthropologists endure in the field as racially marked/gendered/sexualized bodies is necessarily to call for accountability from our colleagues who practice activist research.

“To call for increased visibility of the particular struggles that anthropologists endure in the field as racially marked/gendered/sexualized bodies is, necessarily, to call for accountability from our colleagues who practice activist research.”

Probably not a substantial claim. It may be too vague to check against evidence.

By collectively voicing our experiences with gender and sexual violence in the field, we highlight assumptive logics within activist anthropology that do not escape the hegemony of heteropatriarchal power that plagues positivist methods.

“By collectively voicing our experiences with gender and sexual violence in the field, we highlight assumptive logics within activist anthropology that, we contend, do not escape the hegemony of heteropatriarchal power that plagues positivist methods.”

• AssumptionRests on an assumption: Heteropatriarchy is a structural force not reducible to the body, in which people of all gendered identities (un)consciously invest.

It may state two separate claims as one.

The elder's tone revealed thinly veiled tolerance of a white female researcher's transgressive femininity and taboo sexuality, and an implicit assertion that establishing trust required full disclosure.

“Despite his support of local queer organizations, his tone belied thinly veiled tolerance of her presumably transgressive femininity (read: against hegemonic white femininity), taboo sexuality, and behavior, as well as an implicit assertion that the establishment of trust necessitated full disclosure.”

Probably not a substantial claim. It may be too vague to check against evidence. The paper may give no reason why it holds.

Recognizing how patriarchy is folded into the methods of activist anthropology and calling for the dismantling of such violence is a call for the end of the world.

“Recognizing how patriarchy is folded into the methods of activist anthropology and calling for the dismantling of such violence is, after all, a call for the end of the world.”

It may state two separate claims as one.

Activist research replicates that which it critiques by not addressing the racialized, gendered researcher's embodied experience and by presuming that rapport or intimacy with those with whom we are aligned necessarily results in more horizontal power relations.

“At the same time, we critically examine how activist research replicates that which it critiques by not addressing the racialized, gendered researcher's embodied experience and by presuming that rapport or intimacy with those with whom we are aligned necessarily results in more horizontal power relations.”

Probably not a substantial claim. It may be too vague to check against evidence.

The ethnographic scenes we have shared are not worst-case scenarios but rather point to the naturalization of how patriarchy operates as a continuum of violence that undergirds the field.

“The ethnographic scenes we have shared are not worst-case scenarios but rather point to the naturalization of how patriarchy operates as a continuum of violence that undergirds the field.”

• AssumptionRests on an assumption: Heteropatriarchy is a structural force not reducible to the body, in which people of all gendered identities (un)consciously invest.

Probably not a substantial claim. It may be too vague to check against evidence. It may state two separate claims as one.

The intimacy created through rapport is one of our greatest achievements just as it is, paradoxically, one of our deepest vulnerabilities as women.

“Therefore, the intimacy created through rapport is one of our greatest achievements just as it is, paradoxically, one of our deepest vulnerabilities as women.”

Probably not a substantial claim. It may be too vague to check against evidence. The paper may give no reason why it holds.

The disciplinary description of fieldwork as a uniform, given rite of passage obscures the extraordinary tactics and strategies black women must develop to ensure their dignity while answering research questions.

“The ways in which fieldwork is described in the discipline of anthropology as a uniform, given rite of passage obscures the extraordinary tactics and strategies that we, as black women, must develop to ensure our dignity while we work to answer our research questions.”

Probably not a substantial claim.

The act of listening to our interlocutors in the field as women belies a gendered assumption of passivity.

“The act of listening to our interlocutors in the field as women belies a gendered assumption of passivity”

Probably not a substantial claim. It may be too vague to check against evidence. The paper’s conclusions may not depend on it. The paper may give no reason why it holds. It may state two separate claims as one.

These provocations may damage our careers in the academy and our relationships to local struggles that we have worked to cultivate.

“Yet at the same time, we realize that these provocations may damage our careers in the academy and our relationships to local struggles that we have worked to cultivate.”

Probably not a substantial claim. The paper’s conclusions may not depend on it. It may state two separate claims as one.

Pedagogies of the sacred are located and partial, and there are sacred means through which one comes to be at home in the body that supersede its positioning in materiality.

“Fundamentally, they are located and partial, as”

• cites Alexander 2005, 329Not matched

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Probably not a substantial claim. It may be too vague to check against evidence. The paper may give no reason why it holds.

These secrets shame us.

“These secrets shame us.”

Probably not a substantial claim.

The author's body was presumed durable and elastic, transmuted by blood, and therefore 'able.'

“Unlike hers, my body and its presumed durability and elasticity, transmuted by blood, was”

Probably not a substantial claim. It may be too vague to check against evidence.

The intimacy with which terror invades minds and bodies poses a challenge to the idea of the researcher who is inherently privileged in relation to her field site or collaborators.

“The intimacy with which terror invades our minds and bodies also poses a challenge to the idea of the researcher who is inherently privileged in relation to her field site or collaborators.”

Probably not a substantial claim. It may be too vague to check against evidence. The paper’s conclusions may not depend on it. The paper may give no reason why it holds. It may state two separate claims as one.

When preparing for fieldwork, activist anthropologists are required to be meticulous about how they will safeguard the rights and well-being of those with whom they work, while advancing collaborative processes of knowledge production.

“When preparing for fieldwork activist anthropologists are required to be meticulous about how we will safeguard the rights and well-being of those with whom we work, while advancing collaborative processes of knowledge production.”

Probably not a substantial claim. It may be too vague to check against evidence. The paper’s conclusions may not depend on it. The paper may give no reason why it holds. It may state two separate claims as one.

Through listening to my body-as well as metaphysical and spiritual bodies-I learned that surrender never equates with retreat or loss, and not knowing does not mean fewer possibilities for envisioning forms of relationality not confined to the methodological and epistemological parameters we have come to accept as our horizon.

“Through listening to my body-as well as metaphysical and spiritual bodies-I learned that surrender never equates with retreat or loss, and not knowing does not mean fewer pos-sibilities for envisioning forms of relationality not confined to the methodological and epistemological parameters we have come to accept as our horizon.”

Probably not a substantial claim. The paper’s conclusions may not depend on it.

Alexander's 'pedagogies of the sacred' are teachings known only through unknowing, unlearning, and surrendering to the realization that methodologies inevitably approach a limit.

“A reorientation of the theory-praxis frame that refuses the mind-body-spirit division, what Alexander (2005, 329) calls”

• cites Alexander 2005, 329Not matched

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A fugitive anthropology directs attention to undervalued local feminist praxis rather than solely grappling within masculinist projects of the political.

“Rather than solely grapple within masculinist projects of the political (the party, or the nation-state) that push women's agency, our bodies, and our sexualities to the margins of revolutionary change, fugitive anthropology directs attention to undervalued local feminist praxis.”

Probably not a substantial claim. It may be too vague to check against evidence. The paper may give no reason why it holds.

Since the field travels within our bodies, a new language is also needed to articulate these analytical possibilities.

“And, since the field travels within our bodies, a new language is also needed to articulate these analytical possibilities.”

• AssumptionRests on an assumption: The field travels within our bodies.

Probably not a substantial claim. The paper may give no reason why it holds. It may state two separate claims as one.

Terror is not merely found in hypervisible attacks on Palestinian bodies, lives, and land, but also creeps into the most intimate realms of everyday life, invading the home, family relationships, and the bodies and psyches of Palestinian natives, including their dreams.

“Terror also creeps into the most intimate realms of everyday life, invading the home, relationships between families, and the bodies and psyches of Palestinian natives: indeed, even the space of the colonized's dreams.”

Probably not a substantial claim. It may be too vague to check against evidence. It may state two separate claims as one.

Shared experiences of the embodiment of terror and its wounding effects bind people together across time and space in intimate, womb-like connection with those with whom they work, making them available to each other as ethical-political subjects who can choose to sustain reality or to re-birth life in spaces of social death.

“At the same time, these shared experiences of the embodiment of terror and its wounding effects bind us together across time and space in intimate, womb-like connection with those with whom we work, making us available to each other as ethical-political subjects who can choose to sustain reality (Abbas 2014, 514) or to re-birth life in spaces of social death.”

• cites Abbas 2014, 514 sourceNot checked — no full text of the source

Probably not a substantial claim. It may be too vague to check against evidence. The paper may give no reason why it holds. It may state two separate claims as one.

One of the main challenges we face as feminist activist anthropologists is not only finding productive ways of speaking and writing about gendered violence in the field and its intricate connections with the violence we face at home, but also creating safe social spaces to do so and to heal without giving right-wing opportunists more leverage to suppress revolutionary resistance.

“One of the main challenges we face as feminist activist anthropologists is not only finding productive ways of speaking and writing about gendered violence in the field and its intricate connections with the violence we face at home, but also creating safe social spaces to do so and to heal without giving right-wing opportunists more leverage to suppress revolutionary resistance.”

• AssumptionRests on an assumption: Right-wing opportunists would use accounts of gendered violence to suppress revolutionary resistance.

It may state two separate claims as one.

In the Israeli settler-colonial imagination, each Palestinian child is a potential terrorist and women, as reproducers of Palestinians, are envisioned as a central component of an impending demographic threat.

“In the Israeli settler-colonial imagination, each Palestinian child is a potential terrorist and women, as reproducers of Palestinians, are envisioned as a central component of an impending demographic threat (Shalhoub-Kevorkian 2016).”

• cites Shalhoub-Kevorkian 2016 sourceNot checked — no full text of the source

Probably not a substantial claim. It may state two separate claims as one.

Our differentially marked physical, emotional, and spiritual well-being remains largely absent from discussion, a silence implying that such concerns fall outside the politics of research.

“Yet our differentially marked physical, emotional, and spiritual well-being remains largely absent from discussion, a silence implying that such concerns fall outside the politics of research.”

Probably not a substantial claim. It may be too vague to check against evidence.

A fugitive anthropology cannot be tethered to preordained courses or predictable paths; it moves forward with an understanding that the path to reach spaces unknown is necessarily unpredictable.

“A fugitive anthropology thus cannot be tethered to preordained courses or predictable paths; it moves forward with an understanding that the path to reach spaces unknown is necessarily unpredictable (Vimalassery 2016).”

• cites Vimalassery 2016Not checked — no full text of the source

Probably not a substantial claim. It may be too vague to check against evidence.

Academia has censored accounts of gender violence at the hands of suboppressors in the name of a kind of advocacy that can only exist under patriarchy's patronage.

“Academia has censored accounts of gender violence at the hands of suboppressors (see Spivak 1988) in the name of a kind of advocacy that can only exist under patriarchy's patronage.”

• cites Spivak 1988Not matched

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Probably not a substantial claim. It may be too vague to check against evidence. The paper may give no reason why it holds.

The tools needed to survive in the field cannot necessarily be found within traditional feminist anthropological approaches that hinge on uniformly horizontalizing the power of the researcher in the communities where she works.

“The tools needed to survive in the field cannot necessarily be found within traditional feminist anthropological approaches that hinge on uniformly horizontalizing the power of the researcher in the communities where she works.”

Probably not a substantial claim. The paper may give no reason why it holds. It may state two separate claims as one.

Entrenched patriarchy limits women's forms of socialization and defines access to the places we can inhabit as researchers.

“Entrenched patriarchy limits women's forms of socialization and defines access to the places we can inhabit as researchers.”

Probably not a substantial claim. It may be too vague to check against evidence. The paper may give no reason why it holds. It may state two separate claims as one.

Spirituality offers one pathway to reimagine our methodological tools while providing affective redress; grounding politically engaged anthropology in black and indigenous feminist teachings at the level of both ethnographic process and product offers yet another.

“Spirituality offers one pathway to reimagine our methodological tools while providing affective redress; grounding politically engaged anthropology in black and indigenous feminist teachings at the level of both ethnographic process and product offers yet another.”

Probably not a substantial claim. It may be too vague to check against evidence. The paper may give no reason why it holds.

A similar situation occurs with female researchers' bodies: it is the white heteropatriarchal norms of academia that shape what becomes visible, discussable, and publishable about us, as key battlefields for truth in our discipline.

“A similar situation occurs with female researchers' bodies: it is the white heteropatriarchal norms of academia that shape what becomes visible, discussable, and publishable about us, as key battlefields for truth in our discipline.”

Probably not a substantial claim. It may be too vague to check against evidence. The paper’s conclusions may not depend on it.

These realities form the terrain that we collectively navigate with others to construct spaces for imagining liberation and other pathways.

“These realities form the terrain that we collectively navigate with others to construct spaces for imagining liberation and other pathways of”

Probably not a substantial claim. It may be too vague to check against evidence. The paper may give no reason why it holds.

The disembodied nature of much anthropological discourse-even in its most politically engaged manifestations-often obscures the lived reality of the researcher herself, who navigates regimes of racial and sexual terror.

“While women-of-color feminisms have long carved out spaces for consideration of the racialized female body, the disembodied nature of much anthropological discourse-even in its most politically engaged manifestations-often obscures the lived reality of the researcher herself, who navigates regimes of racial and sexual terror.”

Probably not a substantial claim. It may be too vague to check against evidence.

Acknowledging our embodied experiences grounds us to research and write from places of positioned truth.

“Acknowledging our embodied experiences grounds us to research and write from places of positioned truth.”

It may state two separate claims as one.

Slaughters and feminicides are part of a continuum of violence, structured by colonial forms of oppression and expressed in quotidian forms of violence to which women tend to be the most vulnerable.

“ignoring these microviolences allows us to think that slaughters and feminicides are the exception when in fact they are part of a continuum, structured by colonial forms of oppression and expressed in quotidian forms of violence to which women tend to be the most vulnerable.”

• cites Mujeres Mayas Kaqla (2010)Not matched

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Probably not a substantial claim. It may be too vague to check against evidence. The paper may give no reason why it holds.

As the experience of women survivors within the indigenous organization taught the author, speaking up is not always the best path for healing when patriarchal oppression is what compels us to share our accounts of sexual violence to promote awareness.

“As the experience of women survivors within the indigenous organization taught me, speaking up is not always the best path for healing when patriarchal oppression is what compels us to share our accounts of sexual violence to promote awareness.”

Probably not a substantial claim. The paper may give no reason why it holds.

A female researcher's interest in the perspectives of men is constantly misrecognized as romantic desire.

“A female researcher's interest in the perspectives of men is constantly misrecognized as romantic desire.”

Probably not a substantial claim. The paper may give no reason why it holds. It may state two separate claims as one.

The expectation of violence is normalized, reinscribed, and dismissed, and women are expected to suffer in silence as stoic, durable, expendable, and rapeable bodies-'able.'

“Not only is the expectation of violence normalized, reinscribed, and dismissed, but women are expected to suffer in silence as stoic, durable, expendable, and rapeable bodieswe are”

It may state two separate claims as one.

Activist anthropology's critiques against the putatively objective character of the discipline efface questions of race, gender, and class in the research process and assert a neutral stance that replicates colonial and extractivist forms of knowledge production.

“we reaffirm activist anthropology's critiques against the putatively objective character of the discipline, which effaces questions of race, gender, and class in the research process and asserts a neutral stance that replicates colonial and extractivist forms of knowledge production.”

Probably not a substantial claim. It may be too vague to check against evidence. The paper may give no reason why it holds.

Confronting violence not just as individual survivors, but as knowledge producers enhances our collective struggle.

“Confronting violence not just as individual survivors, but as knowledge producers enhances our collective struggle.”

Probably not a substantial claim. It may be too vague to check against evidence. The paper may give no reason why it holds. It may state two separate claims as one.

While working in pairs as researchers or forming emotional support networks may partially counter the dangers of lone fieldwork, reformist solutions mute the structural antagonisms we highlight.

“While working in pairs as researchers, for example, or forming emotional support networks may partially counter the dangers of lone fieldwork, reformist solutions mute the structural antagonisms we highlight.”

Probably not a substantial claim. It may be too vague to check against evidence. The paper may give no reason why it holds.

In the case of women-identified researchers, we feel that these incidents reveal our shortcomings as activist anthropologists.

“In the case of womenidentified researchers, we feel that these incidents reveal our shortcomings as activist anthropologists.”

Probably not a substantial claim. The paper’s conclusions may not depend on it. It may state two separate claims as one.

Embodied spiritual praxis is never complete because it constitutes an ongoing 'dance of balance' and demands challenge.

“Embodied spiritual praxis is never complete, for Alexander, because it constitutes an ongoing”

• cites Alexander 2005, 310Not matched

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Probably not a substantial claim. It may be too vague to check against evidence. The paper may give no reason why it holds.

Survivors of sexual violence know well that publicly sharing their experiences may revictimize them, especially when others take control of their narratives.

“Meanwhile, survivors of sexual violence know well that publicly sharing their experiences may revictimize them, especially when others take control of their narratives.”

Probably not a substantial claim. It may be too vague to check against evidence. The paper may give no reason why it holds.

Centering the body in the stakes of activist research advances the path toward the project of decolonizing anthropology.

“Centering the body in the stakes of activist research advances the path toward the project of decolonizing anthropology.”

Probably not a substantial claim.

Drawing on Donna Haraway's notion of positioned objectivity as the basis for activist research, Charles Hale has urged that such a project can only take place through this critical acknowledgement.

“Drawing on Donna Haraway's notion of positioned objectivity as the basis for activist research, Charles Hale (2008, 11-12) has urged that such a project can only take place through this critical acknowledgement.”

• cites Hale 2008, 11-12Not matched

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Probably not a substantial claim. The paper may give no reason why it holds.

Many accounts of gender violence circulate among women in the form of traumatic secrets that we carry deep in our bodies.

“Therefore, many of these accounts circulate among women in the form of traumatic secrets that we carry deep in our bodies.”

Probably not a substantial claim. It may be too vague to check against evidence.

This implication reproduces the discipline's legacy of white heteropatriarchy.

“This implication, we argue, reproduces the discipline's legacy of white heteropatriarchy.”

• AssumptionRests on an assumption: Heteropatriarchy is a structural force not reducible to the body, in which people of all gendered identities (un)consciously invest.

Probably not a substantial claim. It may be too vague to check against evidence. The paper may give no reason why it holds.

For a cisgender queer black and indigenous woman, establishing trust would demand an intimacy concomitant with bodily precarity.

“As a cisgender queer black and indigenous woman, establishing trust would demand an intimacy concomitant with bodily precarity.”

Probably not a substantial claim. It may be too vague to check against evidence. The paper may give no reason why it holds.

The rigor required to keep black women's bodies whole while becoming anthropologists is too often illegible in the colonial, patriarchal space of the academy.

“The rigor it takes to keep our bodies whole while becoming anthropologists is too often illegible in the colonial, patriarchal space of the academy.”

Probably not a substantial claim. It may be too vague to check against evidence. The paper may give no reason why it holds.

It is not only state officials, but also the suboppressors who construct women's bodies as battlefields for preserving the patriarchal constitution of their social worlds.

“However, it is not only state officials, but also the suboppressors who construct women's bodies as battlefields for preserving the patriarchal constitution of their social worlds.”

Probably not a substantial claim. It may be too vague to check against evidence. The paper may give no reason why it holds. It may state two separate claims as one.

Our written words betray our screams, which are neither audible nor appropriate in the academy.

“Our written words betray our screams, which are neither audible nor appropriate in the academy.”

Probably not a substantial claim. It may be too vague to check against evidence. The paper may give no reason why it holds.

It is partly our incomplete understanding of the complexities around these unspoken truths that drives us to maintain our silence.

“It is partly our incomplete understanding of the complexities around these unspoken truths that drives us to maintain our silence.”

Probably not a substantial claim. It may be too vague to check against evidence. The paper may give no reason why it holds.

Internalized forms of oppression make us complicit with this violence, insisting that we believe we did something to provoke its outcomes.

“Internalized forms of oppression make us complicit with this violence, insisting that we believe we did something to provoke its outcomes.”

Probably not a substantial claim. It may be too vague to check against evidence. The paper may give no reason why it holds. It may state two separate claims as one.

In these nurturing bonds and praxis we identify the core of a feminist ethos, whose continuation in the academy is politically vital and spiritually necessary.

“In these nurturing bonds and praxis we identify the core of a feminist ethos, whose continuation in the academy is politically vital and spiritually necessary.”

Probably not a substantial claim. It may be too vague to check against evidence. The paper may give no reason why it holds. It may state two separate claims as one.

The outline of this fugitive anthropology seeks to advance a decolonized discipline, yet at the same time takes flight from that contested space we claim as our intellectual home.

“The outline of this fugitive anthropology is, in essence, one that seeks to advance a decolonized discipline, yet at the same time takes flight from that contested space we claim as our intellectual home.”

Probably not a substantial claim. The paper’s conclusions may not depend on it.

M. Jacqui Alexander's writing on embodied spiritual praxis as a source of knowledge gestures toward a 'theory of the flesh' that resides within but is not circumscribed by one's bodily experiences.

“M. Jacqui Alexander's (2005, 261) eloquent writing on embodied spiritual praxis as a source of knowledge gestures toward a”

• cites Alexander 2005, 261Not matched

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Probably not a substantial claim. It may be too vague to check against evidence. The paper may give no reason why it holds.

The colonial code of racialized gender hierarchy can overwrite any black woman's claims to rights, because her flesh is to be eaten.

“The colonial code of racialized gender hierarchy can overwrite any black woman's claims to rights, because her flesh is to be eaten.”

Probably not a substantial claim. The paper’s conclusions may not depend on it.

The spiritual is lived in the same locale in which hierarchies are socially invented and maintained.

“because the spiritual is lived in the same locale in which hierarchies are socially invented and maintained”

• cites Alexander 2005, 310Not matched

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Probably not a substantial claim. It may be too vague to check against evidence. The paper may give no reason why it holds.

The kinds of political compromises and physical dangers encountered while doing fieldwork are inextricably tied to how racialized and gendered bodies are differentially situated within intersecting structures of oppression.

“The kinds of political compromises and physical dangers we encounter while doing fieldwork are inextricably tied to how racialized and gendered bodies are differentially situated within intersecting structures of oppression.”

Probably not a substantial claim.

They all seemed to agree that, regardless of how modestly she dressed or how educada (proper) she behaved, the actions of the so-called man of the house were not, in and of themselves, out of order.

“They all seemed to agree that, regardless of how modestly I dressed or how educada (proper) I behaved, the actions of the so-called man of the house were not, in and of themselves, out of order.”

Probably not a substantial claim. The paper may give no reason why it holds.

A pervasive and insidious assumption surrounding fieldwork is that putting one's body in a place where violence can be enacted upon one makes one accountable for any potential violence.

“A pervasive and insidious assumption surrounding fieldwork is that you put (read: insert) your body in a place or space where violence can be enacted upon you and thereby assume accountability for any potential violence that might occur.”

Probably not a substantial claim. The paper may give no reason why it holds.

Women-identified researchers are implicitly and explicitly told to expect sexual/gender violence as a risk that comes with the territory of fieldwork and everyday life, mapping onto racialized, sexualized territories of their bodies as property.

“Indeed, women-identified researchers are implicitly and explicitly told to expect sexual/gender violence as a risk that comes with the territory of fieldwork (and, by extension, the territory of everyday life), one that maps onto the racialized, sexualized territories of our bodies as property.”