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I consider two ethnographic projects examplary in the treatment of violence that point the way towards the reconstruction of ethnography. Karen Wenzel has written a document on strategies of resistance of a battered woman. Sholom Ansky documented the progrms against the shtetl Jews in the Russian Pale. I take from their work methodological guidelines that imply a careful deliberation on how to place oneself, one's language, one's description of violence, sense of audience, evolving sense of self, amidst horrendous violence: – The subaltern voice and the subaltern vantage point has special weight in naming and describing violence. – The political uses of the description of violence come to be an important criteria in developing the analysis. – The researchers see an important relation between the researcher and her subject, a relation that forms quite explicitly part of the context of the production of knowledge. Ansky and Wenzel elaborate an ethnographic praxis. I focus on how they come to occupy that inbetween position beyond the confines of disciplinary knowledge production to the standpoint of the subject of oppression. I conclude with my own application of the methdological framework in doing research in collaboration with convicted felons to stem the growth of prisons as a form of institutionalized violence int he U.S. ; Hay dos trabajos que considero ejemplares en el tratamiento de la violencia, que dan muestra de una manera de reconstrucción etnográfica. Karen Wenzel ha escrito un trabajo sobre las estrategias de resistencia de una mujer golpeada. Sholom Ansky documentó las matanzas de los pueblos judíos en la Galicia rusa. Tomé de sus trabajos aquellas líneas metodológicas que dan cuenta deuna cuidadosa deliberación sobre el lugar desde el que uno se para, el lenguaje que uno usa, la descripción de violencia que uno tiene, el sentido de audiencia, y la transformación del ser, en un contexto de violencia. – La voz subalterna y el punto de vista subalterno son básicos para nombrar y describir la violencia. – Los usos políticos de la descripción de la violencia se han convertido en un criterio fundamental para el desarrollo del análisis. Los investigadores ven una relación crucial entre el investigador y su sujeto de estudio, relación que explícitamente forma parte del contexto de producción de conocimiento. Ansky y Wenzel elaboran una praxis etnográfica. Me intereso en cómo ellos terminan ocupando esa posición intermedia, más allá de los límites disciplinarios de la producción de conocimiento haciael punto de vista del sujeto oprimido. Finalmente, presento mi propia aplicación de este marco metodológico, con una investigación hecha en colaboración con un grupo de jóvenes delincuentes, para trabajar en contra del crecimiento de las prisiones como una forma de institucionalización de la violencia en los Estados Unidos.

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Part I. Elements of Social Death -- 1. Crossing the Abyss: The Study of Social Death -- 2. Natal Alienation -- 3. Humiliation -- Part II. Method and a History of Social Death -- 4. Dissemblance and Creativity: Toward a Methodology for Studying State Violence -- 5. Racism, Prison, and the Legacies of Slavery -- 6. The Birth of the Penitentiary -- Part III. Abolition Democracy -- 7. "Doesn't Everyone Know Someone in Prison or on Parole?" -- 8. Spirit Murder: Reentry, Dispossession, and Enduring Stigma -- 9. States of Grace: Social Life against Social Death -- 10. Conclusion: Failure and Abolition Democracy -- Notes -- References -- Index -- About the Author

The United States imprisons more of its citizens than any other nation in the world. To be sentenced to prison is to face systematic violence, humiliation, and, perhaps worst of all, separation from family and community. It is, to borrow Orlando Patterson's term, to suffer "social death." In Prison and Social Death, Joshua Price exposes the unexamined cost that prisoners pay while incarcerated and after release, drawing upon hundreds of often harrowing interviews conducted with people in prison, people on parole, and their families. Price argues that the prison separates incarcerated people from desperately needed communities of support and that this isolation of people in prison renders them highly vulnerable to other forms of violence, including sexual violence. Price stresses that the violence they face also involves institutional forms of mistreatment, ranging from abysmally poor health care to routine practices that are arguably abusive. And social death does not end with prison. The condition is permanent, following people after they are released from prison.

Intro -- Structural Violence -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Chapter One: The Power and Control Wheel: From Critical Pedagogy to Homogenizing Model -- Chapter Two: Difficult Maneuvers: Stopping Violence against Latina Immigrants in the United States -- Chapter Three: Speech at the Margins: Women in Prostitution and the Counterpublic Sphere -- Chapter Four: Homophobia, Structural Violence, and Coalition Building -- Chapter Five: Spaces of Judgment and Judgments of Space: Competing Logics of Violence in Court -- Chapter Six: "Why Doesn't She Just Leave?" -- Chapter Seven: Tentative Conclusions and Small-Scale Solutions -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.

Abstract: Colonialism fragments meaning. This essay takes up colonial fragmentation of meaning as a question of translation. It offers a decolonial methodology to unpack the political stakes as one moves back and forth across the colonial line. The methodology is based on a conscious process of urban wandering or drifting, what the Situationists called the "dérive." Two case studies of itinerant decolonial theorizing follow. The first is a sketch of the militarized border between the US and Mexico, and the second example has to do with Columbus Day/Indigenous Peoples' Day. In the case studies, translating is treated as a question of "tuning in" as one tunes into a conversation, or, alternatively, as if into a radio frequency. The metaphor of translation-as-tuning-in allows us to address practical and concrete questions of translation in everyday settings, as well as contemporary theoretical debates in translation studies. Keywords: translation; colonialism; decolonial methodology; border; dérive ; Resumen: El colonialismo fragmenta el significado. Este ensayo aborda la fragmentación colonial del significado como una cuestión de traducción. Se propone plantear una metodología descolonial para desentrañar los intereses y las apuestas políticas que supone desplazarnos a lo largo de la línea colonial, con base en un proceso autoconsciente de divagación urbana, lo que los situacionistas denominan la "deriva." Para este fin se presentan dos casos de lo que planteamos como una teorización descolonial itinerante. El primero es un bosquejo de la frontera militarizada entre Estados Unidos y México, y el segundo tiene que ver con la diferencia entre la designación del llamado Día de la Raza (en inglés "día de Colón") / Día de los Pueblos Indígenas. En estos casos se aborda la traducción como una cuestión de "sintonización", en el sentido de sintonizarnos a una conversación, o a una frecuencia radial. La metáfora de la traducción-como-sintonización nos permite analizar cuestiones prácticas y concretas de la traducción en entornos cotidianos, así como también comentar debates teóricos de la traductología contemporánea. Palabras clave: traducción; colonialismo; metodología descolonial; frontera; deriva ; Résumé: Le colonialisme fragmente le sens. Dans cet article, où la fragmentation coloniale du sens est une question de traduction, l'auteur recourt à une méthodologie décoloniale dans le but d'examiner les enjeux politiques rencontrés lorsque l'on évolue d'un côté puis de l'autre de la frontière du colonialisme. Le travail est fondé sur un processus conscient d'errance ou de flânerie urbaine, que les Situationnistes appellent dérive. Deux études de cas pour théoriser le décolonialisme itinérant sont ainsi proposées. La première est une esquisse de la frontière militarisée entre les États-Unis et le Mexique. Le second exemple concerne Colombus Day (jour férié aux États-Unis) et la journée des peuples autochtones. Dans cette étude de cas, la traduction est une question d'ajustement, tout comme quelqu'un qui s'ajuste à une conversation, ou tout comme on ajuste une fréquence radio. La métaphore d'une traduction qui mène à un ajustement nous permet de répondre à des questions concrètes et pratique de traduction dans nos contextes quotidiens, comme dans les débats théoriques contemporains en traductologie. Mots clés : traduction; colonialisme; méthodologie décoloniale; frontière; dérive ; Resumo: O colonialismo fragmenta o sentido. Este ensaio toma a fragmentação colonial do sentido como uma questão de tradução e oferece uma metodologia decolonial para desvendar suas implicações políticas na medida em que nos movemos de uma lado para o outro da linha colonial. A metodologia baseia-se no processo autoconsciente de errância, de um estar à deriva no espaço urbano, o que os Situacionistas chamavam de "dérive". Dois estudos de caso baseados na perspectiva teórica decolonial itinerante são apresentados. O primeiro é um esboço da fronteira militar entre os EUA e o México, o segundo está relacionado ao Dia de Colombo e ao Dia do Índio. Nos estudos de caso, traduzir é tratado como uma questão de sintonizar-se, como em uma conversa ou estação de rádio. A metáfora da tradução com o ato de sintonizar nos permite endereçar as questões práticas e concretas da tradução em situações cotidianas, bem como nos debates contemporâneos dos estudos da tradução. Palavras-chave: tradução; colonialismo; metodologia decolonial; fronteira, dérive

The question of whether critical race theory can be used to develop an anti-racist approach to conducting social scientific inquiry is addressed. An overview of critical race theory is presented, emphasizing how such perspectives attempt to highlight racism & sexism within US legal institutions. Five aspects of critical race methodology that have transformed studies of US law are highlighted, eg, the use of dreams & parables to expose the foundations of racism & the creation of a "bifurcated consciousness" that permits the critic to access both dominant & oppressed discourses. After reviewing Patricia Williams's (1989) & Derrick Bell's (1996) respective applications of a critical race approach to analyzing their dreams, the issue of whether a white male scholar can authentically apply critical race theory to social scientific study or whether such applications would constitute a form of minstrelsy, passing, or mimicry is contemplated. It is asserted that anti-racist social scientific inquiry can be conducted by incorporating critical race methodology into one's approach; indeed, it is stated such applications of critical race theory allow social scientists to achieve a sense of epistemological solidarity that permits them to become aware of their uneasiness in examining race & gender while allowing themselves to be inspired by the race-gender intersection in US society. 39 References. J. W. Parker