Week 5

This entry will serve as another placeholder. I am currently reading Nancy Naples' /Feminism and Method: Ethnography, Discourse Analysis, and Activist Research/ and writing a book review. While searching for some books with relevant intersections for my research interests, I came across this one, and think I've struck gold. Because I'm interested in implementing a mixed method with a focus on activism/political discourse, I think that Naples' book will be helpful. Naples seems to eloquently and transparently discuss her trials and tribulations through her 20+ years as an activist feminist researcher. So far, she's woven Third Wave feminist theory, from bell hooks to Chela Sandoval, with ethnography in various case studies exploring queerness, postcolonialism, and other topics. While I may or may not be deciding to look specifically at marginalized groups in my research this semester, in the future, I probably will look at writing studies with “the other” in mind. I'm particularly interested in Naples' discussion of political discourse analysis and how it can be used to assess the damage caused by the erasure or negation of the voices of people who have little power.