Pub Date : 2023-09-22DOI: 10.1177/10778004231198461
Melissa Freeman
Everyday aesthetics offers a way to disclose the complexity of a seemingly routine activity like doing the dishes. In this article, I consider the aesthetic allure of one 15-year-old’s letters home from camp preserved in a university’s archives. By returning aesthetics to experience, philosophical hermeneutics restores the experience of understanding to its multi-sensuous materialization. When things speak to us and we in turn respond to them, we are both transformed. Betty Kaufman’s letters vividly depict her experiences at the Laurel Falls Camp for Girls. How, I wondered, does aesthetics perform its mode of being? What are its topological contours? What might qualitative researchers co-responding with archival materials gain from this form of entanglement with understanding?
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Pub Date : 2023-09-22DOI: 10.1177/10778004231196183
Elizabeth Grace Olson, Keira Mills, Su Yun Bae
This poem represents the qualitative findings from a study on transgender individual’s relationship to fashion. Eight transgender young adults were interviewed about their gender identity and presentation, as well as their use of clothing and fashion style to represent themselves. Within these interviews, all participants shared the pleasures and power they derive from their transgender identities. Using direct quotes, and intentionally arranging phrases and stories found within the interview transcripts, the authors created this found poem. A research poem was chosen to best represent this data as it allows the participants to maintain their power using their voices directly to more authentically represent their pleasures and joys in their identities. Themes that emerged, and are represented by the six color groups of stanzas, which include making connections to others and the queer community (red); gaining a unique perspective of the world (orange); finding opportunities and enjoying fluidity (yellow); enhancing pleasure in the body and physical representation of gender (green); creating power in visibility and representation (blue); and embracing the delight and freedom in a trans identity (purple).
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Pub Date : 2023-09-22DOI: 10.1177/10778004231196923
Ian Stewart
The following brief paper is an evocative autoethnography of the lockdown life of an academic and the impact on his home and family, presented as a poem. It is followed by a reflection on relevant literature and some practical ethnographic research questions arising.
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Pub Date : 2023-09-22DOI: 10.1177/10778004231196918
Sebastian Garbe
This article explores autoethnography as a critical research methodology in dialogue with post- and decolonial critique. It draws on an (auto)ethnographic research on and within the transnational solidarity network of the Mapuche people in which encounters of solidarity across difference are understood as postcolonial “contact zones.” This contribution hereby suggests three important opportunities for autoethnographic positioning analysis by looking at (a) different layers of the author’s field access, (b) the author’s strategic membership within the international solidarity activism, and (c) experiences of being rejected. This article argues that the careful and systematic analysis of such ethnographic episodes is able to (a) generate important epistemological insights within a particular research field, in this case transnational solidarity and networked social movement activity, and (b) highlight and reflect upon the researcher’s “complicity” within fieldwork. The first part of this contribution briefly introduces post- and decolonial debates on solidarity across difference and moves on to suggesting autoethnographic positioning analysis as a methodological approach for studying/supporting the transnational solidarity activism, drawing upon the author’s research with the Mapuche.
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Pub Date : 2023-09-22DOI: 10.1177/10778004231196922
Mei-Chen Spiegelberg
This article explores the utility of strategic membership researcher status in the case of Sino-German cross-cultural training courses to understand the paradoxical practices that reinforce and mitigate cross-cultural conflicts in transnational contexts. Drawing upon autoethnographic positioning analysis, I connect my own negative emotional experiences with positioning dynamics to reconstruct conflictual social events. This approach not only exposes the implicit field logic but also reveals the arrangement of social relations in an unexpected way. These findings highlight the epistemic potential of combining position-analytic and emotion-analytic reflexivity. In so doing, this article provides a practical, methodological model and furthers scholarship on the utility of autoethnography for the study of social relations.
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Pub Date : 2023-09-19DOI: 10.1177/10778004231198534
Grace Ann Giorgio
This autoethnography contests notions that family secrets and lies are always disruptive to family cohesion by exploring how secrets and lies hold a family together. Drawing from shared memories, I address my siblings directly to reveal our experiences of navigating our parents’ secrets and lies from each other that contributed to our own adoption of such practices. The story shows how we eventually found better ways to support our parents and one another into adulthood by learning to “own the lies” and not eschew them. Owning the lies means knowing each of our love debts to one another and to the social worlds we inhabit beyond the family dynamic.
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Pub Date : 2023-09-19DOI: 10.1177/10778004231196184
Carol A. Taylor, Jo Albin-Clark, Karen Broadhurst Healey, Hannah Hogarth, Zoe Lewis, Suvi Pihkala, Sharon Louise Smith, Joy Cranham, Liz Latto
What do doors do? Open Close Invite In Shut Out Jam Stick Wedge open Welcome: Entice and Invite Offer a glimpse into Bar SLAM SHUT Get kicked in Get kicked shut Splinter Warp Hang Sit ajar Gently linger in our minds Cause hurt and separation Affecting thoughts Moments of joy or pain Longing, Waiting Fearful longing, Fearful waiting, Anticipating Wondering Haunting “Come-on-in” This article is based on research-creation experimentations arising from the provocations “what do doors do?” and “how do doors matter?” We ponder how knowledge-making practices come to life when you take a little time to notice the mattering of doors. We use collaborative feminist praxis to generate arts-based post-qualitative entanglements as generative invitations for door storying that illuminate the potentialities of commoning practices.
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Pub Date : 2023-09-19DOI: 10.1177/10778004231200580
Ronald J. Pelias
This essay is a tribute in memory of Norman K. Denzin. It recalls the thoughts that were running through the author’s mind when he learned of Norman Denzin’s passing on Facebook.
这篇文章是为了纪念诺曼·k·丹金。它回忆了作者在Facebook上得知诺曼·丹津去世时的思绪。
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Pub Date : 2023-09-19DOI: 10.1177/10778004231200793
James Salvo
The work of good editing creates openings for others to express their own ideas. The world is such that—to put it in the language of game theory—we must play cooperatively in the academy. The urgency of things needing our attention and action does not leave time for us to play strategic games wherein we compete with those who would be allies in our striving toward the flourishing of all.
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Pub Date : 2023-09-13DOI: 10.1177/10778004231198017
Graham Francis Badley
In this narrative autoethnography, I reflect on living in Post-Academia. First, I discuss how universities have become more managerial and less collegial. Then, I consider my own move from being an academic to becoming a post-academic (even verging on the post-humous). Finally, I look at the possibilities of living a sort of flourishing life in post-academia, enjoying a new sense of liberty, and accepting, despite increasing decrepitude, enough happiness to see me through.
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