Methods: Trans-Formal Research for Transformational Practice
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https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2317-9651.i26p235-290Keywords:
Cartonera publishers, Cartoneras practices, Double fold, Cultural studies, AnthropologyAbstract
This is a translation of the chapter “Methods: Trans-Formal Research for Transformational Practice”, part of the book Taking Form, Making Worlds: Cartonera Publishers in Latin America (2022). Throughout the article, the authors follow the activities of the Mexican cartoneras La Rueda Cartonera and Viento Cartonero to elaborate a theory of cartonera practice and, at the same time, to offer a reflection on the methodology they have developed to work on and with cartonera, based on an interdisciplinary vision. In this process, Bell, Flynn and O’Hare propose the concept of the “double fold” to name a double path of this type of social and artistic project: the presence of the sociopolitical structures in cartonera practices and, in turn, the impact of cartoneras in sociopolitical practices.
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