Abstract
We present the documentary produced in the ethnographic research project "Urban Boundaries: the dynamics of cultural encounters in Community Education" (FU), in which two local communities of Costa da Caparica, Portugal - a fishing community and a multicultural community in a clandestine neighborhood - and an interdisciplinary academic community, comprising researchers from university and non-university institutions, as well as independent academics and artists. Critical ethnography was the methodology adopted in the project, by which the active participation of all social actors is reinforced, implicated in a process of intentional change. In the documentary produced throughout the project we assume the heterogeneity of languages, genres, times, voices and sensibilities, in a process of creative freedom and permanent reflexivity. We write a brief history of the process of its realization and production / edition, in order to reflect critically on some options that we have identified around several interpenetrating questions: 1) epistemological and methodological issues; 2) political issues; 3) ethical issues; 4) aesthetic and technical issues. Based on critical and emancipatory perspective, as a philosophical and epistemological foundation, where all knowledge has an equal place, guided by an ethics of responsibility and re-connection and by a poetics and policy of democratic participation and decentralized multiplicity, we were concerned with creating a production with technical and aesthetic qualities, integrating diverse forms and discourses, crossing heterogeneous, scientific, political and artistic logics. Finally, we identify clues for future work, thus assuming an open process that is constantly rethinking, critically analyzing its limits and expanding into new possibilities.
Highlights
We present the documentary produced in the ethnographic research project "Urban Boundaries: the dynamics of cultural encounters in Community Education" (FU), in which two local communities of Costa da Caparica, Portugal - a fishing community and a multicultural community in a clandestine neighborhood - and an interdisciplinary academic community, comprising researchers from university and nonuniversity institutions, as well as independent academics and artists
Critical ethnography was the methodology adopted in the project, by which the active participation of all social actors is reinforced, implicated in a process of intentional change
Based on critical and emancipatory perspective, as a philosophical and epistemological foundation, where all knowledge has an equal place, guided by an ethics of responsibility and re-connection and by a poetics and policy of democratic participation and decentralized multiplicity, we were concerned with creating a production with technical and aesthetic qualities, integrating diverse forms and discourses, crossing heterogeneous, scientific, political and artistic logics
Summary
A etnografia crítica foi a metodologia adoptada no projeto, pela qual se reforça a participação ativa de todos os atores sociais, implicando-se num processo de mudança intencional. Neste artigo tecemos uma breve história do processo da sua realização e produção/edição para, a partir daí, refletir criticamente sobre algumas opções que identificámos em torno de diversas ordens de questões, que se interpenetrem: 1) questões epistemológicas e metodológicas; 2) questões políticas; 3) questões éticas; 4) questões estéticas e técnicas. Tendo por fundamento filosófico e epistemológico uma perspetiva crítica e emancipatória onde todos os saberes têm igual lugar, orientados por uma ética da responsabilidade e da religação e por uma poética e política de participação democrática e multiplicidade descentralizada, preocupamo-nos em criar uma produção com qualidades técnicas e estéticas, integrando formas e discursos diversos, cruzando lógicas heterogéneas, científicas, políticas e artísticas. Palavras-chave: Documentário Participativo, Etnografia Crítica, Criatividade Relacional, Ética da Responsabilidade e da Religação. Ser ou Não Ser um Documentário Participativo do/no Projeto Fronteiras Urbanas
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