ABSTRACT
This chapter explores the analytical possibilities implied in handling texts as plastic and jointly produced. A collaborative strategy to analyse sociocultural norms related to difference in processes of interpretation is laid out. The chapter explores ways of identifying blind spots in interpretations, and at the centre you find an examination of the effects of social categories, race, class and gender in their complex interconnectedness. The suggested analytical strategy presented in the chapter can be read as one of the multiple ways to put intersectional thinking into an analytical practice. The main aim of the methodological strategy is to critically disturb embedded cultural norms that accompany conventional readings of the world, and therefore knowledge production. The creation of new texts written from new perspectives echoes the poststructuralist call for intentional and disturbing methodological takes which reveal the researcher’s participation in the (re)production of hegemonic positions and interrupt taken-for-granted thinking. The empirical material comes from an interview carried out with a labour movement activist in Peru in the mid-1980s. It is argued that a story born out of another time and context, when made the object of joint reflexion, can be a way to question and explore present-day meaning-making and contribute to contemporary discussions on topics related to the impact of sociocultural and socio-economic difference.
