Interpelling the “Academic Horse”: For an Affective and Emplaced Practice

Abstract

This text examines the notion of situated knowledge to consider the emplacements that, from non-academic spaces in Mexico, interpellate and affect notions, stories and research strategies. The document addresses its analysis in response to the question of what it means to do research in a context of violent deaths and enforced disappearances in Mexico, which involves processes of exhuming and working with "the formless" and phantasmatic. Finally, it addresses the affective impact that a scenario where life is highly fragilized has upon the research work.