Kashi Labh

During the ten days of research with Shiv's family, I realized that Moksha is an embodied knowledge of care that is transmitted through generations in the form of religious stories, and is grounded in the everyday adjustments of making it a possibility (as future), rather than a philosophical argument (Jackson 2014). During our walks with the camera through the labyrinth-like network of narrow streets, we began to improvise small, daily projects. These projects represented Shiv’s distinctive politics-of-care, for they heightened the possibility of his mother’s Moksha. In attending to such unintended imaginaries (Kazubowski-Houston 2017, 115), the camera attuned us to the affective and embodied dimensions of Shiv’s politics-of-care. This approach to audio-visual ethnography further allowed Shiv to take an active role in setting the direction of the film and impacting his family’s future. Based on our critical intervention within the everyday performances of the possible, I re-consider the anticipatory and the creative potential our research, and how it facilitates collaboration and reflexive creation of ethnographic knowledge.