REIMAGINING ETHNOGRAPHIC RESEARCH FOR COLLECTIVE ACCESS THROUGH (CRIP) COLLABORATION

This chapter explores experimental efforts in anti-ableist ethnographic research design during the pandemic for a project about university landownership in the United States. We highlight our interconnected methodological considerations for this project, such as mixed-ability collaboration, mixing “local” and “remote” research, asynchronous participation, the use of a wide variety of affordable access technology, and more. We developed these methods from the principles of disability justice and experiences with radical cross-disability organizing. These design elements enabled broader participation in data collection and analysis than the usual methods for ethnographic fieldwork and greater opportunities for reflexivity about bodyminds than what would have been possible with traditional ethnographic research methods.