On being a space invader and the thing around my neck

Naasiha Abrahams
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This article presents itself as an autoethnographic reflection on my positionality as a veiled, South African Muslim of Cape Malay descent and lower middle class background, attempting to navigate access to white educational space, as part of my doctoral research in Flemish primary schools. I explore what it means to be racialized as ‘other’ whilst also assuming a position of ‘authority’ as researcher, and occupying a particular space (positioned as neutral and secular) as a ‘body out of place’ (Puwar, 2004), in which a symmetry can be seen between myself and those categorised as ‘other’. The aim of this article is to reflect on how this occurs through certain processes, namely: (in)visibilisation; reprimanding; compartmentalisation; and, interpellation. I also reflect on the body of the anthropologist and the idea of the ‘objective researcher’ in order to illuminate how the mechanisms of racialization work. I engage the ensuing psychological burden brought about by the encounter with the ‘white gaze’ (Fanon, 2008). As a complement to the autoethnography, I make use of literary fiction as a method of analysis, in order to highlight the way in which literature can stimulate the formation of analytical insights (see Craith & Kockel, 2014) and, I draw on film.  
作为一个太空入侵者和我脖子上的东西
这篇文章是我作为一个蒙着面纱的开普马来裔南非穆斯林和中下层阶级背景的自我民族志反思,作为我在佛兰德小学的博士研究的一部分,我试图进入白人教育空间。我探索了被种族化为“他者”的意义,同时也假设了研究人员的“权威”地位,并占据了一个特定的空间(定位为中立和世俗),作为一个“错位的身体”(Puwar, 2004),在我和那些被归类为“他者”的人之间可以看到一种对称。本文的目的是反思这是如何通过某些过程发生的,即:(in)可视化;谴责;上;质询。我也反思了人类学家的身体和“客观研究者”的概念,以阐明种族化的机制是如何运作的。我承担了与“白人凝视”相遇所带来的随之而来的心理负担(Fanon, 2008)。作为对自我民族志的补充,我利用文学小说作为一种分析方法,以突出文学可以刺激分析见解形成的方式(见Craith & Kockel, 2014),我借鉴了电影。
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