Biblioteca Digital de VanguardiaReciprocal epistemology. Contributions for a Dialogue between Social Anthropology and Participatory Action Research
Through an effort to approach the epistemic program of social anthropology and that of Participatory Action Research (PAR), we observe the similarities and differences that both establish concerning the category of participation. An ethnographic estrangement exercise is carried out on two PAR experi...
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| Formato: | info:eu-repo/semantics/article |
| Lenguaje: | Español |
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Universidad Nacional de La Plata. Facultad de Humanidades y Ciencias de la Educación
2020
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| Acceso en línea: | https://www.relmecs.fahce.unlp.edu.ar/article/view/Relmecse065 http://biblioteca-repositorio.clacso.edu.ar/handle/CLACSO/27577 |
| Sumario: | Through an effort to approach the epistemic program of social anthropology and that of Participatory Action Research (PAR), we observe the similarities and differences that both establish concerning the category of participation. An ethnographic estrangement exercise is carried out on two PAR experiences with indigenous communities of Jujuy (NW Argentina) in which the author has participated, thus highlighting two different mediation roles that occur in PAR. It is proposed that one of these roles, namely 'stimulation agent', may serve to the social researcher as a legitimate opening key to a given social field, by integrating him/her in instances that we name here as ‘epi’ and ‘meta’ workshop. Consequently, we propose an alternative way of considering the PAR epistemic contract, by recovering the concept of participation from ethnography, thus allowing an epistemological reciprocity bond between researcher and subaltern social subjects, by means of which two products, and not just one, may be obtained from the PAR experience: one of them being the scientific product – the paper –, which serves to the researcher; and the other one being a collective emancipation experience, which serves subaltern social subjects to ease certain aspects of their everyday livelihoods. |
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