Debris. Autoethnography, Feminist Epistemology, Ethics, and Sexual Violence

TY - JOUR

T1 - Debris.

T2 - Autoethnography, Feminist Epistemology, Ethics, and Sexual Violence

AU - Boesten, Jelke

AU - Gavilán, Lurgio

N1 - Publisher Copyright: © 2024 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group.

PY - 2024/6/4

Y1 - 2024/6/4

N2 - This article examines the impact of methodological choices and collaborative processes in a complex study that delved into the intimate experiences of violence as narrated by conscripts to the Peruvian armed forces. Lurgio Gavilán is a Peruvian anthropologist who strongly identifies with the interviewed veterans because of his own experiences, and Jelke Boesten is European feminist scholar with specific ideas about gender justice. Our collaboration allows us to raise fundamental questions around the limitations, validity, and ethics of knowledge production. The “debris” of this collaboration refers to the ethical questions that we may have previously failed to raise and address. Why did each of us embark on this research? Have our respective epistemological positions shifted due to the research? How has the nature of the collaboration, and our different positions of power therein, enlightened or concerned us? With what are we left, and what do we leave behind?.

AB - This article examines the impact of methodological choices and collaborative processes in a complex study that delved into the intimate experiences of violence as narrated by conscripts to the Peruvian armed forces. Lurgio Gavilán is a Peruvian anthropologist who strongly identifies with the interviewed veterans because of his own experiences, and Jelke Boesten is European feminist scholar with specific ideas about gender justice. Our collaboration allows us to raise fundamental questions around the limitations, validity, and ethics of knowledge production. The “debris” of this collaboration refers to the ethical questions that we may have previously failed to raise and address. Why did each of us embark on this research? Have our respective epistemological positions shifted due to the research? How has the nature of the collaboration, and our different positions of power therein, enlightened or concerned us? With what are we left, and what do we leave behind?.

KW - Methodology

KW - sexual violence

KW - epistemology

KW - Autoethnography

KW - militaries

UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85195111026&partnerID=8YFLogxK

U2 - 10.1080/14616742.2024.2356012

DO - 10.1080/14616742.2024.2356012

M3 - Article

SN - 1461-6742

VL - 26

SP - 523

EP - 543

JO - International Feminist Journal of Politics

JF - International Feminist Journal of Politics

IS - 3

ER -