Sisters, Partners or Something More? Collaborative Path Together with Stop Evictions

Abstract

This article shows the path walked together with Stop Evictions 15M Granada, a broad and inclusive social movement that struggles for the right to housing in a city in the south of Spain, in our attempt to carry out an ethnographic co-research, focusing on epistemological reflection about committed and collaborative ethnography, through the lived experiences as sisters and companions. First of all, and after a brief introduction to contextualize the co-research, we present a movement genealogy articulated with the theoretical production around the political subjectivation processes. Second, we develop on some uncertainties, limits and vulnerabilities lived in the field-work process. Third, we address some cases of co-research through the idea of “knowledges-doings-powers” in which techniques have been first subverted and then re-appro-priated to give rise to shared processes of analysis and reflection within the movement and have subsequently given way to a form of dissemination which is useful for the movement. Finally, we reflect on the potentiality that the political subjectivation process has not only for social move-ments that re-conceptualize the political, but for the collaborative ethnography project in relation to the de-identification of our “knowledges-doings-powers”, to institute them in common.