From silence to stillness: decolonial feminist ontologies and the mattering of history in educational research |
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| Authors: | Alycia Elfreich |
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| Institution: | Bloomington School of Education, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, USA |
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| Abstract: | This paper explores undocumented adolescent Latina becomings that move beyond Western, white dominant cultural values and recognize egalitarian entanglements of difference. I begin by recognizing my positionality in this work that speaks to my own feminist theoretical entanglements of this project that draw upon new materialist and post-qualitative embodied, inspirited, affective becomings. In the second half of this paper, I resituate this project within a decolonizing framework that parallels discussions of feminist new materialist and post-qualitative work in an effort to begin thinking differently about educational research, schooling, and the impact of oppressive and colonizing practices on undocumented immigrant youth in this country. Finally, I do not offer this research project in the conventional qualitative structure, but am not claiming this research as post-qualitative either - as it lies somewhere in between - and resides in a liminal methodological space. |
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| Keywords: | Feminist new materialism decolonialism undocumented immigrants adolescent Latina ontologies |
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