The purpose of this paper is to question the idea of “passing a test” within activist ethnography. Activist ethnography is an ethnographic engagement with social movement organizations as anti-authoritarian, anarchist, feminist and/or anti-racist collectives. It is based on the personal situating of the researcher within the field to avoid a replication of colonialist research dynamics. Addressing these concerns, we explore activist ethnography through feminist standpoint epistemologies and decolonial perspectives.,This paper draws on our two activist ethnographies conducted as PhD research in two distinct European cities with two different starting points. While Lea entered the field through her PhD research, Claire partly withdrew and re-entered as academic.,Even when activist researchers share the political positioning of the social movement they want to study, they still experience tests regarding their research methodology. As activists, they are accountable to their movement and experience – as most other activist – a constant threat of exclusion. In addition, activist networks are fractured along political lines, the test is therefore ongoing.,Our contribution is threefold. First, the understanding of tests within activist ethnography helps decolonizing ethnography. Being both the knower and the known, activist ethnographers reflect on the colonial and heterosexist history of ethnography which offers potentials to use ethnography in non-exploitative ways. Second, we conceive of activist ethnography as a prefigurative methodology, i.e. as an embedded activist practice, that should therefore answer to the same tests as any other practice of prefigurative movements: it should aim to enact here and now the type of society the movement reaches for. Finally, we argue that activist ethnography relies on and contribute to developing consciousness about the researcher’s political subjectivity.

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女权主义者和殖民主义观点关于通过维权民族志的考验

本文的目的是质疑维权民族志中“通过测试”的想法。激进民族志是与社会运动组织（作为反威权主义，无政府主义者，女权主义者和/或反种族主义团体）进行的民族志活动。它基于研究人员在该领域内的个人情况，以避免重复殖民主义的研究动态。为了解决这些问题，我们通过女权主义立场的认识论和非殖民主义的视角来探讨维权民族志。本文借鉴了我们在两个不同的欧洲城市以两个不同的起点进行博士研究的维权民族志。Lea通过博士学位研究进入该领域时，Claire部分退出并重新进入学术领域。即使激进主义者的研究人员分享了他们想要研究的社会运动的政治定位，他们仍然会经历有关其研究方法的考验。作为激进主义者，他们和大多数激进主义者一样，对自己的行动和经历负责，不断遭到排斥。此外，激进主义者的网络沿着政治路线破裂，因此测试正在进行中。我们的贡献是三倍的。首先，对激进主义者民族志中的测试的理解有助于非殖民地民族志。维权民族志学家既是知识的，又是已知的，他们反思民族志的殖民和异性恋历史，这为以非剥削性方式使用民族志提供了潜力。其次，我们将维权民族志学视为一种预喻性方法论，即作为一种嵌入式维权实践，因此，它应该与其他比喻运动的实践得到相同的考验：它应该旨在在这里和现在制定该运动所要达到的社会类型。最后，我们认为激进主义者的民族志学依赖并有助于培养人们对研究者政治主体性的意识。