出版社：Servicio de Publicaciones de la Universidad Complutense de Madrid
摘要：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.
