Can Anthropology/Ethnography be Revolutionary?
The university space is constantly changing with the diversity of individuals making up the population. Therefore, this requires the study of anthropology and the tool of ethnographic research to be to be revolutionary. Of which it has the potential to do so. However, it will require a very thorough transition of being already transformative to revolutionary to the point where the work of anthropology is not only read in texts, limiting the scope, but also to allow for it to be visible and distributed to the point where it is exposed to a wider audience and is visible by the eye in the university. What I mean by this, is that the structures of the university be influenced by anthropological work literally. Not just in terms of offering theory only, but to create something that can be incorporated and useful to all bodies occupying the space.
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Which is firstly acknowledging my positionality as a researcher. In terms of my identity as a young, black, cisgender, able-bodied woman and how that influences the power dynamics that I experience in my research. Secondly, I will be talking about my understanding of ethics and how I believe I would like to incorporate it into ethnographic research looking from a feminist lens. Thirdly, I will about talk the methodology that I have used to research a topic that I feel very passionate about and that is mental illness. Where it is barely acknowledged, especially amongst people of colour and I will illustrate how the university space perpetuates the system through various forms of structural violence and and systems that are exclusionary. Along with how within academic literature there is barely any research on mental illness issues of black people in South