Richard Taylor’s scientific contributions

... Drawing an equivalence between the preservation/ consumption of food and of refugees' voices, I seek to highlight the complex power dynamics at play in processes of so-called refugee representation, suggesting that as part of refugees archiving back (following Ashcroft et al., 2010) and archiving afresh, the gesture of gifting our (intimately) preserved food to the (nonrefugee) ethnographer who has assigned herself the role of 'preserving' our voices in interviews (for subsequent consumption by the researcher and her readers), positions refugees and researchers on a par in spite of the extractive process underpinning the encounter. In this regard, the rations 'gifted' to us by the UN, prepared by us for our own (immediate or deferred) consumption in the private sphere, have been transmuted into a gift which we (as the researched) have offered to the ethnographer, with the intimate travelling (or being taken) from the home to the public spherefrom the domestic to the international. ...

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Refugees as Archiving Subjects: Between the Researched and the Researcher