Fugitive Collaborative Research
Seeking Mutuality as Accountability
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Mutuality. Fugitive Collaborative Research. Accountability. Radical Care. FieldworkAbstract
This article explores mutuality as a mechanism of accountability in fugitive collaborative research. Drawing on fieldwork conducted between 2010 and 2015, it argues that, to advance on a liberation anthropology, it is necessary to create mechanisms that address the vulnerabilities of “native” researchers. The text invites us to consider how histories of colonialism and imperialism have positioned certain researchers at the lower end of power relations, rendering them vulnerable to racialized, gendered, and sexualized violence in the everyday practice of collaborative research. It suggests that what the author calls "fugitive collaborative research" seeks to construct a relational praxis of mutuality, one that is politically accountable to the racialized and gendered vulnerabilities that affect both the researcher and their interlocutors.
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