Embodied Encuentros: Oral History Archives of Latina/o/e Experiences: Global Latin/o Americas
Autor Elena Foulisen Limba Engleză Paperback – 20 apr 2026
In Embodied Encuentros, Elena Foulis offers a practical guide for completing ethical fieldwork in Latina/o/e communities, emphasizing equitable and culturally sustaining practices for gathering oral histories. In her critical decolonial model, Foulis centers the agency of the people within these communities while considering the diversity and complexity of their experiences. In doing so, she advocates for the importance of building oral history archives that challenge our understandings of Latina/o/e peoples.
Foulis provides a conceptual framework for building on community knowledge that considers language, cultural practices, gender, and race. She suggests ways to involve students in ethical research; collect evolving oral histories; employ a language justice approach that acknowledges linguistic oppression, translanguaging, and bilingualism as essential aspects of this community; and consider the importance of digital archives for the creation of multimedia projects that foster community pláticas. Grounded in both theoretical approaches and a feminist ethics praxis, Embodied Encuentros ultimately outlines an important model for doing collaborative, ethical research—not only within Latina/o/e communities but within other minoritized communities as well.
Foulis provides a conceptual framework for building on community knowledge that considers language, cultural practices, gender, and race. She suggests ways to involve students in ethical research; collect evolving oral histories; employ a language justice approach that acknowledges linguistic oppression, translanguaging, and bilingualism as essential aspects of this community; and consider the importance of digital archives for the creation of multimedia projects that foster community pláticas. Grounded in both theoretical approaches and a feminist ethics praxis, Embodied Encuentros ultimately outlines an important model for doing collaborative, ethical research—not only within Latina/o/e communities but within other minoritized communities as well.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780814259818
ISBN-10: 0814259812
Pagini: 142
Ilustrații: 14 b&w images
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 mm
Greutate: 0.45 kg
Editura: Ohio State University Press
Colecția Ohio State University Press
Seria Global Latin/o Americas
ISBN-10: 0814259812
Pagini: 142
Ilustrații: 14 b&w images
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 mm
Greutate: 0.45 kg
Editura: Ohio State University Press
Colecția Ohio State University Press
Seria Global Latin/o Americas
Recenzii
“Embodied Encuentros brilliantly prepares the next generation of oral history practitioners with a radical yet necessary approach to the field. Rooted in feminist ethics and pláticas/testimonio methodologies, this book also guides readers in conducting oral histories that are caring, egalitarian, and restorative.” —Jesús Jesse Esparza, author of Raza Schools: The Fight for Latino Educational Autonomy in a West Texas Borderlands Town
“From gentrification to joy-mapping, migration to transformation, Foulis transforms testimonio and pláticas into power tools that amplify community voices as vital, breathing knowledge repositories and obliterates tired oral history paradigms once and for all.” —Frederick Luis Aldama, University of Texas at Austin
“Foulis beautifully draws on her experiences as a teacher and as a researcher, demonstrating how to do engaged and ethical oral history with communities. Embodied Encuentros makes a strong argument for the power of oral history when working with stories of migration, identity, and belonging.” —Anna Sheftel, coeditor of Oral History Off the Record: Toward an Ethnography of Practice
“Embodied Encuentros offers a decolonial framework for oral history grounded in feminist ethics, language justice, and community-based participatory research. Bridging theory and praxis, the book advances nonextractive, collaborative methodologies, making it essential reading for scholars and students in oral history, Latina/o/e studies, ethnic studies, digital humanities, and feminist theory.” —Gabriela Baeza Ventura, Director of the Recovering the US Hispanic Literary Heritage Program
Notă biografică
Elena Foulis is Associate Professor and Director of the Spanish Language Studies Program at Texas A&M University–San Antonio. She is the coeditor of Working en comunidad: Service-Learning and Community Engagement with U.S. Latinas/os/es.
Extras
Engaging with the Latina/o/e community is best done within a feminist ethics rooted in Chicana/Latina and Black women praxis, one that centers approaches that are culturally and linguistically attuned to the practices of our community. Scholars such as Dolores Delgado Bernal, Gloria Anzaldúa, Kimberlee Crenshaw, and Adela de la Torre offer us a foundation for thinking and working with BIPOC communities in ways that affirm and incorporate the community’s ways of knowing and doing. For Chicanas/Latinas, pláticas and testimonios have been a way to understand and recognize each other’s experiences as sources of knowledge production, care, and empathy. For example, while the practice of testimonio has been used by Chicanas/os as a critical practice that centers the individual’s voice, it is often political and has a tone of conscientização. Reyes and Curry Rodríguez describe testimonios as “different from the qualitative method of in-depth interviewing, oral history narration, prose, or spoken word. The testimonio is intentional and political.” Testimonios can be spoken and written, and, most importantly, Chicanas/Latinas have used them as a methodology that empowers marginalized communities. As Reyes and Curry Rodríguez explain, “Feminist epistemology influenced Chicanas and empowered them to develop the narrative format as redemption—as takers of the stories, as readers of the narratives, and as creators of the analysis” (emphasis added). Indeed, if we must follow an ethics of care and an approach of cultural humility when working with Latina/o/e communities, we are saying we welcome nuance into our work, in our interactions, and the ability to change or adjust the course if and when necessary. This includes connecting and learning about the Latina/o/e community before, during, and after we work together. The practice of pláticas, testimonios, and convivencia has been a Chicana/Latina methodological praxis of care. Through pláticas, communities have been able to build trust, amplify community concerns, and find solutions; it is a restorative practice that allows for co-creation and mutuality. Morales et al. tell us that “pláticas ask us to be accountable to those communities we care about the most, which can include people in our intimate circles. They furthermore require that we be willing to uncover our wounds as we seek to build with others who are often wounded by the same systems of domination.” While our students—especially those with whom we work for only one semester—and others who engage in oral histories with multilingual communities of color might not have the same investment or identify as BIPOCs, the pláticas methodology in oral history does ask us to proceed con cariño, respeto, and cuidado. For example, Dolores Delgado Bernal shares the questions she asks her students to encourage them to reflect on their work: What is my personal and past relationship to pláticas?; What are my collaborators’ relationships with pláticas?; How deeply have I delved into the Chicana/Latina feminista literature?; Why do I believe this might be an appropriate methodological approach?; In what ways am I willing to be vulnerable in a pláticas and how might my vulnerabilities parallel or differ from my collaborators?” Because we might work with interviewers/students who do not share the same identities as our narrators—yes, even if they are Latina/o/e—I ask these same questions in a slightly different way to further underscore students’ positionalities:
What is my personal and past relationship to listening to and/or collecting oral history?
What are my narrator’s relationships with being interviewed or sharing their life history?
How deeply have I delved into this particular community’s Latina/o/e experiences?
How do I ensure this methodological approach is not extractive?
How might I navigate diverse linguistic practices?
How equipped am I to receive emotions such as grief, anger, sadness, from my narrators?
What is my personal and past relationship to listening to and/or collecting oral history?
What are my narrator’s relationships with being interviewed or sharing their life history?
How deeply have I delved into this particular community’s Latina/o/e experiences?
How do I ensure this methodological approach is not extractive?
How might I navigate diverse linguistic practices?
How equipped am I to receive emotions such as grief, anger, sadness, from my narrators?
Cuprins
Contents
List of Illustrations
Foreword by Felipe Hinojosa
Chapter 1 Tejiendo Historias: A Feminist Ethics Approach to Working with Latina/o/e Communities
Chapter 2 Con Cariño: Embodied Encounters of Collaboration
Chapter 3 Creando Archivos Digitales: Digital Humanities and Oral History
Chapter 4 La Historia Oral como Vehículo a la Expresión Creativa: Oral History and Performance
Chapter 5 Conmemorando a una cComunidad: Robb Elementary, Uvalde, Texas
Conclusion The Intimacy of Oral History
Acknowledgments
Works Cited
Index
List of Illustrations
Foreword by Felipe Hinojosa
Chapter 1 Tejiendo Historias: A Feminist Ethics Approach to Working with Latina/o/e Communities
Chapter 2 Con Cariño: Embodied Encounters of Collaboration
Chapter 3 Creando Archivos Digitales: Digital Humanities and Oral History
Chapter 4 La Historia Oral como Vehículo a la Expresión Creativa: Oral History and Performance
Chapter 5 Conmemorando a una cComunidad: Robb Elementary, Uvalde, Texas
Conclusion The Intimacy of Oral History
Acknowledgments
Works Cited
Index
Descriere
Offers a practical guide for completing ethical fieldwork in Latina/o/e and other marginalized communities, emphasizing equitable and culturally sustaining practices for gathering oral histories.