¿Qué ves cuándo me ves? (¿y qué no ves?): interrogar la propia mirada en la investigación socioantropológica de identidades narrativas en la ruralidad

In these lines I propose an exercise in “reflexivity” (Guber, 2004) of my socio-anthropological research experience on identity narratives around processes of agricultural business advancement in rural territories. The research problem is based on the experience of “Our United Farms”, a community work group of small producer families in the Pampa de Pocho (Traslasierra, Córdoba, Argentina). To recognize obstacles and enablers of the point of view from which I approach the problem, I propose a dialogue between scenes reconstructed from participant observations and interviews with members of the organization and authors who make contributions around the “affective turn”, feminist theory and care. I propose three questions that trigger reflections on what I made invisible and on the incorporating of new dimensions and perspectives that allow us to open our gaze. The first question refers to the invisibility of actions as political because they belong to the private sphere. The second invites us to think about the unequal conditions of access for participation in certain forms of protest and identity implications. The third one, avoiding an essentialist perspective of emotions, recognizes their importance to interrogate the actions and inactions of subjects, understanding that affects do not work in a single direction.