Improvisatory Activist Scholarship
Dance Practice as Metaphor for Participatory Action Research
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.14288/acme.v17i4.1510Keywords:
activist scholarship, agroecology, engaged ethnography, improvisation, Mexico, participatory action researchAbstract
I define improvisatory activist scholarship as attempts to disrupt commonly-held meanings in research through the skilled negotiation of unexpected circumstances and through attention to the circulation of power among collaborators. Metaphors from the dancing of contact improvisation (CI) serve as a bridge to highlight improvisational aspects of participatory action research (PAR). I also trace movement between PAR and engaged ethnography in my research with CEDICAM, a farmer-to-farmer training network in Oaxaca, Mexico. Improvisation is the creative negotiation of an encounter with the unknown or unexpected, sometimes due to a lack of options. In iterative cycles of PAR, improvisational skill increases receptivity to emerging pathways for investigation when unexpected circumstances arise. This is important in transdisciplinary fields like agroecology that closely interface with the complex realities of land-based livelihoods. Extending awareness from the individual to the group and to society at large helps identify effective leverage points for analysis and action. Finally, recognition of the privilege embodied by the activist scholar may encourage power to circulate more equitably in multiple directions to stimulate horizontal communication between actors. These are some of the practical suggestions presented for how an embodied scholarship may embrace improvisation as par for the course.
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Giguere, Miriam. 2015. “Dance Education Action Research: A Twin Study.” Research in Dance Education 16 (1):16–32. https://doi.org/10.1080/14647893.2014.971231.
Goldman, Danielle. 2010. I Want to Be Ready: Improvised Dance as a Practice of Freedom. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press.
Guzmán, Gloria I., Daniel López, Lara Román, and Antonio M. Alonso. 2013. “Participatory Action Research in Agroecology: Building Local Organic Food Networks in Spain.” Agroecology and Sustainable Food Systems 37 (1):127–46. https://doi.org/10.1080/10440046.2012.718997.
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Mezirow, Jack. 2000. Learning as Transformation: Critical Perspectives on a Theory in Progress. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass.
Novack, Cynthia Jean. 1990. Sharing the Dance: Contact Improvisation and American Culture. Madison, Wisconsin: University of Wisconsin Press.
Patel, Raj, Rachel Bezner Kerr, Lizzie Shumba, and Laifolo Dakishoni. 2015. “Cook, Eat, Man, Woman: Understanding the New Alliance for Food Security and Nutrition, Nutritionism and Its Alternatives from Malawi.” The Journal of Peasant Studies 42 (1):21–44. https://doi.org/10.1080/03066150.2014.971767.
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Putnam, Heather, Wendy Godek, Susanne Kissmann, Jean Luckson Pierre, Santos Humberto Alvarado Dzul, Hector Calix de Dios, and Stephen Richard Gliessman. 2014. “Coupling Agroecology and PAR to Identify Appropriate Food Security and Sovereignty Strategies in Indigenous Communities.” Agroecology & Sustainable Food Systems 38 (2):165–98. https://doi.org/10.1080/21683565.2013.837422.
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Rogé, Paul, and Marta Astier. 2015. “Changes in Climate, Crops, and Tradition: Cajete Maize and the Rainfed Farming Systems of Oaxaca, Mexico.” Human Ecology 43 (5):639–53. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10745-015-9780-y.
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Rogé, Paul, Aida C. Ríos, Silvia V. Ruiz, Patricio Sánchez, Francisco Mora, Miguel A. Altieri, and Marta Astier. 2016. “Manejo de Agroambientes Para La Resiliencia Agroecológica Al Cambio Climático: Los Sistemas Maíz Cajete Y Maíz de Temporal En San Miguel Huautla Nochixtlán Oaxaca.” Agroecología 11 (2). https://paulroge.net/sites/default/files/publications/roge-2016-manejo.pdf.
Rosset, Peter Michael, and María Elena Martínez Torres. 2016. “Agroecología, Territorio, Recampesinización Y Movimientos Sociales.” Estudios Sociales 25 (47):275–99. http://foodfirst.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/Agroecolog%C3%ADa-territorio-recampesinizaci%C3%B3n-y-movimientos-sociales.pdf.
Schaffman, Karen. 2003. “Weighting Metaphors: A Response to Raymond W. Gibbs and ‘Hilary’.” In Taken by Surprise: A Dance Improvisation Reader, edited by Ann Cooper Albright and David Gere, 245–54. Middletown, Conn: Wesleyan University Press.
Silver, Jonathan. 2014. “Incremental Infrastructures: Material Improvisation and Social Collaboration Across Post-Colonial Accra.” Urban Geography 35 (6):788–804. https://doi.org/10.1080/02723638.2014.933605.
Smith, Nancy Stark. 1979. “Editor Note.” Contact Quarterly 5 (1):2.
Smith, Nancy Stark, and David Koteen. 2008. Caught Falling: The Confluence of Contact Improvisation, Nancy Stark Smith, and Other Moving Ideas. Northampton: Contact Editions.
Stoudt, Brett G., Madeline Fox, and Michelle Fine. 2012. “Contesting Privilege with Critical Participatory Action Research.” Journal of Social Issues 68 (1):178–93. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1540-4560.2011.01743.x.
Sudbury, Julia, and Margo Okazawa-Rey. 2009. “Introduction: Activist Scholarship and the Neoliberal University.” In Activist Scholarship: Antiracism, Feminism, and Social Change, 1–14. Boulder: Paradigm Publishers.
Tschakert, Petra, Kathleen Dietrich, Ken Tamminga, Esther Prins, Jen Shaffer, Emma Liwenga, and Alex Asiedu. 2014. “Learning and Envisioning Under Climatic Uncertainty: An African Experience.” Environment and Planning A 46 (5):1049–68. https://doi.org/10.1068/a46257.
Tschakert, Petra, Raymond Tutu, and Anna Alcaro. 2013. “Embodied Experiences of Environmental and Climatic Changes in Landscapes of Everyday Life in Ghana.” Emotion, Space and Society 7:13–25. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.emospa.2011.11.001.
Vogl, Christian R., Susanne Kummer, Friedrich Leitgeb, Christoph Schunko, and Magdalena Aigner. 2015. “Keeping the Actors in the Organic System Learning: The Role of Organic Farmers’ Experiments.” Sustainable Agriculture Research 4 (3). https://doi.org/10.5539/sar.v4n3p140.
Walla, Nala. 2008. “The Embodied Activist: Where Permaculture Meets the Arts.” Contact Quarterly 33 (2):28–31.
Wylie, John. 2002. “An Essay on Ascending Glastonbury Tor.” Geoforum 33 (4):441–54. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0016-7185(02)00033-7.
Wylie, John. 2009. “Landscape, Absence and the Geographies of Love.” Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers 34 (3):275–89. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1475-5661.2009.00351.x.
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