The Devil’s Armpit and Other Tales from the Rural Rustbelt: Interrogating the Practice and Process of Un/masking in a Postcritical Ethnography about Place
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
2021
Keywords
Postcritical, ethnography, masking, anonymization, rural, rustbelt
Digital Object Identifier (DOI)
https://doi.org/10.1080/09518398.2021.1885762
Abstract
Resistance to simple narratives in education research comes from the stance that they render findings useless for the political work of understanding contexts of education as they exist today. This paper interrogates three stories of masking choices from a four year postcritical ethnographic study in the rural rustbelt Midwestern United States. These stories make visible how masking operates as both process and product within and part of white supremacist and colonizing systems. The author calls critical qualitative and postcritical researchers to interrogate the role of protection, answerability, and specificity in their work towards justice in terms of masking.
Citation / Publisher Attribution
International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education, v. 34, issue 9, p. 800-811
Scholar Commons Citation
Panos, Alexandra, "The Devil’s Armpit and Other Tales from the Rural Rustbelt: Interrogating the Practice and Process of Un/masking in a Postcritical Ethnography about Place" (2021). Teaching and Learning Faculty Publications. 688.
https://digitalcommons.usf.edu/tal_facpub/688
