Weaving an Otherwise: In-Relations Methodological Practice

194 Pages·2022·10.265 MB·English

by  Amanda Tachine (editor), Z Nicolazzo (editor)

“From the very first page of this book, Tachine and Nicolazzo provide readers with a richly
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woven set of chapters that will surely provoke fresh ideas, innovative practices, and deeper
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thinking about the possibilities of qualitative research. The metaphor and practice of weav- c
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aries of research need to be called into question to open up new possibilities. Every chapter
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tionalities embedded in the process of witnessing and recording. Repositioning research as

indigenous survivance, BlackLove, responsibility, gifting, haunting, and more, these authors

provide crucial guidance to mending research practices that are too often bound up by ex-

clusions, but given ideas and practices shared here, subject to challenge and change.” W
In-Relations Methodological Practice
—Cris Mayo, Professor, Department of Education, University of Vermont
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What are the modes and ways of knowing through which we approach our research? V
How can the practice of research bring us closer to the peoples, places, more than
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human beings, histories, presents, and futures in which we are embedded and N
connected to? If we are the instruments of our research, then how must we be attentive to
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all of the affects and relations that make us who we are and what will become? These ques-
tions animate weaving an otherwise, providing a wellspring from which we think about our
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interconnections to the past, present, and future possibilities of research.
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THE EDITORS
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Amanda R. Tachine, Navajo from Ganado, Arizona, is an assistant professor in Educational T
Leadership and Innovation at Arizona State University. Her research explores the relationship H
between systemic and structural histories of settler colonialism and the ongoing erasure of
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Indigenous presence and belonging in college settings.
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Z Nicolazzo is an assistant professor of Trans* Studies in Education and a member of the
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Transgender Studies Research Cluster at the University of Arizona. Her research is centrally
focused on exposing and exploring critical gendered perspectives of education. I A M A N D A R . TA C H I N E
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HIGHER EDUCATION | SOCIAL SCIENCE |
QUALITATIVE RESEARCH | RESEARCH METHODS
Foreword by LEIGH PATEL • Afterword by K. WAYNE YANG
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WEAVING AN OTHERWISE
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WEAVING AN OTHERWISE
In-Relations Methodological Practice
Edited by Amanda R. Tachine and
Z Nicolazzo
Foreword by Leigh Patel
Afterword by K. Wayne Yang
STERLING, VIRGINIA
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In gratitude to the weavers from generations back who
dreamed textiles of the future, that is now our present.
—Amanda
To Freeses Pond; I hope the views, smells, and sounds from
the banks are beautiful, Mom.
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CONTENTS
FOREWORD
Forward, or Rather, Toward ix
Leigh Patel
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS xv
INTRODUCTION 1
Amanda R. Tachine and Z Nicolazzo
PART ONE: BEFORE
1 REFUSING NEOLIBERAL LOGICS IN RESEARCH DESIGN 15
Samuel D. Museus and Amy C. Wang
2 SURVIVANCE-BASED INQUIRIES IN AND BEYOND THE ACADEMY 29
Angie Morrill and Leilani Sabzalian
3 “IF YOU CAN’T GO TO BELLA NOCHE’S . . .”
On the Onto-Epistemological Possibilities for Qualitative Researchers 44
Reginald Blockett, Leonard D. Taylor Jr., and Steve D. Mobley Jr.
PART TWO: DURING
4 ARCHIVES IN THE HOLD
Overreading Black Student Activism 63
Zachary Brown
5 HEEDING HAUNTINGS IN RESEARCH FOR MATTERING 76
Irene H. Yoon and Grace A. Chen
6 (RE)CONSIDERATIONS OF ANSWERABILITY THROUGH GIFTING 92
Christine A. Nelson (K’awaika/Diné) and Heather J. Shotton
(Wichita/Kiowa/Cheyenne)
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viii contents
PART THREE: AFTER
7 BLACKLOVE STORIES 111
Keon M. McGuire, Kirsten T. Edwards, and T. Elon Dancy II
8 LEARNING FROM ABOLITION
Reconsidering the Carceral in Educational Research Methodologies 126
Kyle Halle-Erby and Harper Keenan
9 METHODOLOGIES FOR GESTURING TOWARDS
DECOLONIAL FUTURES 141
Sharon Stein, Vanessa Andreotti, Cash Ahenakew, Rene Susa,
Will Valley, Sarah Amsler, Camila Cardoso, Dino Siwek,
Tereza Cajkova, Dani D’Emilia, Ninawa Huni Kui, Mateus Tremembe,
Rosa Pitaguary, Benício Pitaguary, Nadia Pitaguary, Ubiraci Pataxó,
Lynn Mario Trindade Menezes de Souza, Bill Calhoun, Shawn Van Sluys,
Carolina Azul Duque, Kyra Royo Fay, and Ben Lickerman
AFTERWORD
Before, After, During the 100-Year Weave 159
K. Wayne Yang
ABOUT THE AUTHORS 165
INDEX 169
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FOREWORD
Forward, or Rather, Toward
In Weaving an Otherwise: In-Relations Methodological Practice, the weavers,
Amanda R. Tachine and Z Nicolazzo, dreamt into reality this collec-
tion of moving chapters with writers, thinkers, and cultural workers.
These chapters provide us stories, tools, and ideas to release. We might not
have known, with our minds, that we needed release, but likely our bodies
knew. As Cynthia Dillard, Nana Mansa II of Mspeasam, Ghana, and deeply
respected and beloved educator in relation to many traditions, most deeply
Black women educators, has long taught us, we’ve often been made to equate
chef-proof “recipes” and logarithms that reinforce the coloniality logics that
can only be anointed by seemingly objective truth. Cynthia Dillard’s resound-
ing work invites to both release and to remember what we’ve been taught to
forget, in part, that ways of knowing are not a collection of ideas but sets of
practices and relations. For too long, researchers have sought to know, and
those researched have been sought, even seduced into a tacit agreement of
transaction and extraction.
We have needed this book for a long time. It is not coincidental that
the words, the thoughts, the very personhoods partially etched in these
pages have answered a call of weaving, relationality, practice, and other-
wise. Weaving is a long-standing practice of cultural survivance. The cover
of this beautiful book features the textile artistry created by Amanda as an
act of relation, love, and ceremony. That the picture of this work of art that
provides warmth graces the cover of this book is testimony to the fact that
Native women’s existence is an act of survivance. Gerald Vizenor’s precise
use of survivance is neither survival nor resistance, as one of the chapters,
coauthored by two deeply gifted Native women, reminds us. Weaving is a
way of repeating a pattern to serve the material function of warmth and the
symbolic soul work of being grounded in relation. Quilts, woven by women
from many different places and times, have strikingly familiar patterns, a
reminder to us of the power and call for rematriation that is also present in
so many of the chapters here.
As several authors note, these chapters were written in the COVID-19
pandemic, an airborne virus that mutates as it is passed from one being to
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