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Ethnofiction And Interior Protest: Scholar-Activism In The Yemenite Children Affair, Tova Gamliel
Ethnofiction And Interior Protest: Scholar-Activism In The Yemenite Children Affair, Tova Gamliel
The Qualitative Report
In this article, ethnofiction is discussed as a scholar-activist methodology that offers advantages for interior protest within community borders. The case study centers on the affair of the abducted Yemenite-Jewish children in Israel. Ethnographic studies and the researcher’s experience with members of the community serve as sources for a dramatic dialogue that reflects the definition of, and coping with, a problem as the topic of protest in the affair. The connection between the case study and its sources of information is stressed and the ethnodrama is instantiated as a transformative methodology. The findings on the acceptance of this ethnofiction in …