Irons, Rebecca;
(2024)
Postcards Post-Petroleras: Exploring Collaborative Ethnography via Mail from the Venezuelan Diaspora.
Bulletin of Latin American Research
10.1111/blar.13554.
(In press).
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Abstract
Postcards, as ‘travelling communication devices’, have been identified as excellent tools for their ability to collapse ‘the field’ in a new, visually experiential way. Though often presented as a (post)colonial medium that has exoticized ‘the other’, they may also be able to give snapshots of diverse biographies otherwise silenced, and can therefore be utilised as a form of collaborative ethnography. This paper analyses postcards sent from Venezuelans living in Bogota during the pandemic. It will suggest that when migrants express lived‐experience via postcards, the coloniality of the medium is challenged and reimagined as collaborative ethnography.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | Postcards Post-Petroleras: Exploring Collaborative Ethnography via Mail from the Venezuelan Diaspora |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1111/blar.13554 |
| Publisher version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/blar.13554 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | © 2024 The Authors. Bulletin of Latin American Research published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd on behalf of Society for Latin American Studies. This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
| Keywords: | migration, pandemic, participatory ethnography, postcards, Venezuela, visual data |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Population Health Sciences > Institute for Global Health |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10191277 |
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