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Departures in Critical Qualitative Research (2021) 10 (1): 50–77.
Published: 01 March 2021
... emphasizes the phenomenology of the experience and its meaning for the life of the experient. Themes of illness, disclosure, and stigma become transformative. © 2021 by the Regents of the University of California 2021 Epilepsy Spirituality Autoethnography Illness Ictal psychosis My lord is...
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The medical model attributes religious and spiritual experiences in epilepsy to delusional or hallucinatory events, sometimes diagnosed as a form of ictal psychosis with its causation lying in epileptic symptomatology. Individuals with temporal lobe epilepsy rarely discuss experiences with medical professionals, fearing judgment and pathologization. I problematize understanding these experiences in a strictly biomedical manner. A medical case study is replaced by autoethnographic narrative to describe and analyze spiritual experiences from a nonmedical perspective. This approach emphasizes the phenomenology of the experience and its meaning for the life of the experient. Themes of illness, disclosure, and stigma become transformative.
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Departures in Critical Qualitative Research (2021) 10 (1): 78–96.
Published: 01 March 2021
...Ghassan Moussawi This essay explores what I describe as “bad feelings” in the field and the research process. Combining autoethnography with feminist and queer methods, I counter the stigma around trauma and feelings of shame and fear in research. I ask what happens when the researcher experiences...
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This essay explores what I describe as “bad feelings” in the field and the research process. Combining autoethnography with feminist and queer methods, I counter the stigma around trauma and feelings of shame and fear in research. I ask what happens when the researcher experiences bad feelings that recall past lived trauma, and that challenge their sense of safety and security. In addition, I consider what it means for researchers to feel bad about their research. I argue that feeling one’s research, and thinking through and with bad feelings, opens up the possibility to “accidentally fall” into productive, and perhaps, alternative issues of study.
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Departures in Critical Qualitative Research (2020) 9 (2): 126–132.
Published: 01 May 2020
...Joëlle M. Cruz Drawing on autoethnography as a genre, this letter of disapplication to the discipline of organizational communication is organized around short poems. Speaking from my positionality as a brown foreign woman of Ivorian and French heritage, I walk the reader through my experience of...
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Drawing on autoethnography as a genre, this letter of disapplication to the discipline of organizational communication is organized around short poems. Speaking from my positionality as a brown foreign woman of Ivorian and French heritage, I walk the reader through my experience of the walkout at the 2019 National Communication Association Organizational Communication Division's Top Paper Panel. Weaving in recent and distant pasts, I claim that this particular encounter is interconnected to other daily embodied experiences of racism, sexism, and ethnocentrism that constitute the normal for many people of color in communication studies.
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Departures in Critical Qualitative Research (2020) 9 (1): 25–32.
Published: 01 March 2020
... Reprints and Permissions web page, http://www.ucpress.edu/journals.php?p=reprints . 2020 Autoethnography Whiteness Disability Passing White invisibility Merit was the religion of my white, working-class household. My grandparents migrated from Italy and promptly “Americanized” their last...
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In this essay, I autoethnographically map my experience of pursuing and then denouncing the “religion” of merit into which I was indoctrinated in my white, second-generation immigrant household. I argue that my disabled body is marked as visible through medical discourse that originated within, and is in turn perpetuated by, white patriarchal discourse. This visibility interrupts the power of white invisibility, allowing a means of understanding how white normalness perpetuates a system of merit that rejects all visible, abnormal bodies while offering an unsuccessful pursuit of meritorious invisibility. The normal and invisible system of merit, when exposed, visible, and rejected, can be dismantled.
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Departures in Critical Qualitative Research (2020) 9 (1): 46–62.
Published: 01 March 2020
... . 2020 Shame culture Identity Place attachment Autoethnography Events in my life have led me to an account of place—the loss of place, seeking place, finding place. Place matters; connections to place have helped make meaning of my life. Meaning creates spaces of importance for the creator...
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Inspired by Dwight Conquergood, who calls on scholars to engage in intimate conversations, I offer an autoethnographic approach to explore the interconnectivity between place attachment, shame culture, and what I refer to as identity suicide through my journey to finding an attachment to place, to having interaction. Through these findings, I discovered the self-acceptance that had always been a struggle to reach due to the choices I was making within the shame culture in which I was living. This work is a reflective processing of my choices along this journey—choices that are denied to so many other queer individuals.
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Departures in Critical Qualitative Research (2019) 8 (4): 16–22.
Published: 01 December 2019
... Press's Reprints and Permissions web page, http://www.ucpress.edu/journals.php?p=reprints 2019 Race Personal narrative Autoethnography Global institutions Global education Meritocracy contradicts the principle of equality. hannah arendt 1 A call for papers for this special...
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Provincializing whiteness—this deconstructing move lays bare the absolute power of racial supremacy that faculty of color housed in communication studies and other departments have faced in US academia. Yet, acts of racial supremacy reveal how provincial that way of thinking is. There is a plethora of her-his-stories that are better suited to coexistence and tolerance without privileging Western modernity.
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Departures in Critical Qualitative Research (2019) 8 (4): 3–9.
Published: 01 December 2019
.../journals.php?p=reprints 2019 Autoethnography Performative writing Race Creative nonfiction Postcolonialism Whiteness Oppression In smashing and terrorizing human diversity, every hegemon inflicts misery, torment, and anguish. Tension and frustration are always stirring and fomenting. In this...
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Hegemons arise by smashing and terrorizing human diversity. They do so structurally, institutionally, and discursively—that is, through logics, rationales, and schemes. In this special issue, we grapple with the racism problem that pervades communication studies. In fact, the discipline has long had a racism problem, silenced by overarching structures that deploy the language of civility to erase conversations that call out this problem. This special issue, “Merit, Whiteness, and Privilege,” focuses on the racial, ideological, and epistemological logics, rationales, and schemes, such as falsely separating scholarly merit from diversity, that the status quo in communication studies employs to keep minority peoples marginalized. We contend that looking at the racism problem that pervades communication studies from a perspective of whiteness deepens our understanding of this problem in profound ways.
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Departures in Critical Qualitative Research (2019) 8 (4): 82–88.
Published: 01 December 2019
... Autoethnography Racial violence Whiteness Meritocracy Civility The institutionalization of Black Studies, Feminist Studies, all of these things, led to a sense that the struggle was over for a lot of people and that one did not have to continue the personal consciousness-raising and changing of one's...
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Racial violence in the academy is enacted upon faculty of color, particularly women, in multiple disciplines. This essay attempts to both expose and suggest that everyday systemic racism has become a pervasive and normalizing feature within disciplines that continue to privilege white and Eurocentric forms of knowledge making while devaluing others. Furthermore, attempts to challenge such supremacies are immediately countered by calls and charges of incivility. This is an essay about the costs of unmasking norms of civility as it bears upon constructions of both whiteness and meritocracy.
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Departures in Critical Qualitative Research (2018) 7 (4): 54–60.
Published: 01 December 2018
... Autoethnography This is an act of betrayal. You are now implicated. I was born in a town on the edge of a coal mine . When I looked out the car window on the way out of town, I used to watch the water gushing out the bottom of the power station's three huge water towers, and the steam pouring out...
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This essay is an autoethnographic account of my transition from the working class to the middle class. It argues that performativity is central to upward social mobility, and that in my case this process has resulted in a loss of working-class identity. I perform this argument by having my working-class self comment upon the middle-class form to which I have committed my childhood. By making this split visible, I aim to evoke the complexities that are bound up in this class migration, and to question the middle-class academy's role in shutting out the working class.
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Departures in Critical Qualitative Research (2018) 7 (4): 113–122.
Published: 01 December 2018
... University of California. All rights reserved. Request permission to photocopy or reproduce article content at the University of California Press's Reprints and Permissions web page, http://www.ucpress.edu/journals.php?p=reprints . 2018 Autoethnography Family communication Feminism Things that...
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This piece offers a handful of poems written over the past few years, during a time of profound departures, pivots, and journeys that have mostly happened within the innocuous orbits of everyday life in familiar spaces. They might provide a micro-scale situated examination of self/other care-giving dynamics or add to the feminist conversation around academic subjectivity and slow scholarship or sketch a terrain that pieces together into an impressionistic map of the emotional and affective geography of professionally and relationally moving on.
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Departures in Critical Qualitative Research (2018) 7 (4): 139–142.
Published: 01 December 2018
...=reprints . 2018 Autoethnography Production reflection Gathering, holding, and enfolding the lifestories of others into composite monologues requires hands of great skill and boundless compassion. Openhandedly sharing your script with colleagues—your script that comes bearing the lives of others...
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This production reflection describes the aesthetic and conceptual logics that informed a staging of Heavier than Air at Southern Illinois University. I take up the metaphor of “open hands” with which artists share and shape each others' stage work in order to reflect upon and rationalize the scripting and staging choices we made.
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Departures in Critical Qualitative Research (2018) 7 (4): 179–186.
Published: 01 December 2018
... University of California Press's Reprints and Permissions web page, http://www.ucpress.edu/journals.php?p=reprints . 2018 Privilege Autoethnography Spoken word poetry Race Whiteness When I first listened to Ed Mabrey's poem “The Libretto of the Opera: Death of a Black Boy,” I did not know how...
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This artist statement and poetic response to Ed Mabrey's poem map my ongoing journey to understanding my role in the cultural pursuit of racial justice. I begin with my initial reactions to the request to respond to Mabrey's poem as part of the Opening Session of the 2017 National Communication Association annual convention and explain my reasons for choosing to respond with an autoethnographic poem. I then trace my understandings of racism as 1) a working-class white child in a northern factory town, 2) a first-generation college student and academic, and 3) a parent of sons growing up in a racially divided southern US city. Location, relationships, power, and privilege emerge intertwined in my ongoing lived experience, art, and advocacy.
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Departures in Critical Qualitative Research (2018) 7 (4): 123–138.
Published: 01 December 2018
... University of California. All rights reserved. Request permission to photocopy or reproduce article content at the University of California Press's Reprints and Permissions web page, http://www.ucpress.edu/journals.php?p=reprints . 2018 Performance Autoethnography Theatre Lesbian, gay, bisexual...
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Can a theatre play provide actors and audiences with a feeling of being at home? This article is an autoethnographic work that addresses how the author finds, in his work directing the research-based theatre play Heavier than Air devised by Anne Harris and Stacy Holman Jones, a self-identification with its queer characters. Describing it as a play that explicitly and implicitly welcomes people to be queer and to tell their stories, the author analyzes how the play also symbolizes the free movement of people and the quest for home.
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Departures in Critical Qualitative Research (2018) 7 (3): 53–59.
Published: 01 September 2018
...Kelly A. Franklin This performative autoethnography sways between past and present, setting two towers and a flying trapeze into a “responsive dialogue” in the liminal space between waiting and weightlessness, the mirrored mediations engage in an intra-active word play that reflects the forward...
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This performative autoethnography sways between past and present, setting two towers and a flying trapeze into a “responsive dialogue” in the liminal space between waiting and weightlessness, the mirrored mediations engage in an intra-active word play that reflects the forward–back arcing rhythms of lived experience. The pas de deux of the intertwined stanzas seeks to embody on the page an iterative conversation between memory and materiality, time and form, sorrow and joy, connections missed… and connections made.
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Departures in Critical Qualitative Research (2018) 7 (3): 27–52.
Published: 01 September 2018
... professional. © 2018 by the Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. Request permission to photocopy or reproduce article content at the University of California Press's Reprints and Permissions web page, http://www.ucpress.edu/journals.php?p=reprints . 2018 Autoethnography...
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A devastating loss of digitized possessions, due to an unexpected and sudden malfunction of a back-up storage device ( Time Machine ) evokes a complex set of emotional reactions and inquiries into the nature of digital loss. This autoethnographic narrative reveals, through a reverse chronological order (to emulate Time Machine 's archival data storage process), how the events followed by the loss impacted my beliefs and attitudes toward the realms of digital technology in our lives, as it relates to a habit and need for archiving and preserving digitalized possessions, both personal and professional.
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Departures in Critical Qualitative Research (2018) 7 (2): 49–71.
Published: 01 June 2018
...Shinsuke Eguchi; Mary Jane Collier In this essay, we write about our collaborative experiences with faculty mentoring/allying relationships using autoethnography. From two different locations of academic faculty standing, we articulate that faculty mentoring/allying relationships can be sites of...
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In this essay, we write about our collaborative experiences with faculty mentoring/allying relationships using autoethnography. From two different locations of academic faculty standing, we articulate that faculty mentoring/allying relationships can be sites of critical intercultural communication praxis in which differences informed by historical and existing power relations are productively discussed and acknowledged. However, these are easier to talk about than to practice. Thus, we share our continuing struggle to complicate the notion of faculty mentoring/allying and offer our experiences as complex, fluid, multiple, and contextual productions and constitutions of differences.
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Departures in Critical Qualitative Research (2018) 7 (2): 72–92.
Published: 01 June 2018
... Autoethnography Critical whiteness Reflective practice Critical praxis research Dwam Critical researchers in the academy have documented the replication of hegemony within Western institutions, like schools. 1 This article adds to understandings of hegemony in school curriculum and pedagogy by...
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This critical reflective practice article juxtaposes the temporal relationship between lived experiences in my past, with my present actions as a schoolteacher. Presented in the style of a dwam—the state of semiconsciousness that precedes sleep—I uncover dominant colonial narratives that continue to inscribe racialized power relations in school curriculum and pedagogy, and that have done so throughout my experiences as a child–student and an adult–teacher. Drawing from Albert Memmi's “colonizer who refuses,” my dwam demonstrates critical awakening as a white teacher through six scenes that span four decades.
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Departures in Critical Qualitative Research (2018) 7 (1): 32–52.
Published: 01 March 2018
... Reprints and Permissions web page, http://www.ucpress.edu/journals.php?p=reprints . 2018 Mormon Voodoo Tourism Autoethnography Ritual The performance of touring, specifically the participation in Voodoo Tours in New Orleans, LA, is a ritual. Victor Turner states: Rituals separated...
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Although tourism is considered leisure, tours can serve other means for the tour-participant. Tours can prompt memories of the past, and offer a framework for understanding our pasts. This essay uses touring as a metaphor and a mechanism of exploring our pasts to better understand our presence/present. Through autoethnographic methods, this essay examines tourism as ritual and explores rituals as a resource for making sense of painful pasts. Painful memories can pervade individuals’ minds, altering their perspective and understanding of events, interactions, and relationships. This essay demonstrates how tourism can help people overcoming the memories of sexual assault to find healing.
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Departures in Critical Qualitative Research (2018) 7 (1): 4–31.
Published: 01 March 2018
...://www.ucpress.edu/journals.php?p=reprints . 2018 Arts-based inquiry Critical performative pedagogy Tourism National Parks Autoethnography Popping-a-Squat. All images courtesy of the author. Popping-a-Squat. All images courtesy of the author. We lost Shannon on the mountain. Chris decided to...
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This project posits the practice of scrapbooking as an arts-based, performative autoethnographic method of inquiry that allows me to interrogate my experiences teaching a tourism course grounded in critical performative pedagogy. Teaching American Expedition was sublime and, in its sublimity, it resists linear, dispassionate analysis. Choosing an arts-based method of inquiry, such as scrapbooking, opens up possibilities of thinking and understanding beyond the limitations of language, of honoring bodied experiences that are not easily or necessarily speakable, and of exploring how care is enacted in and through the practice of my pedagogy.
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Departures in Critical Qualitative Research (2017) 6 (4): 70–86.
Published: 01 December 2017
...Ester Holte Kofod In this essay, I explore the significance of involving personal experiences with loss in my research on parental bereavement. By intersecting autoethnography and findings from a qualitative interview study with bereaved parents following infant loss, I argue that while popular and...
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In this essay, I explore the significance of involving personal experiences with loss in my research on parental bereavement. By intersecting autoethnography and findings from a qualitative interview study with bereaved parents following infant loss, I argue that while popular and professional accounts depict normal grief as a transitory state, parental accounts present grief as a continuing and open-ended relationship with the dead child. In acknowledgment of this, I present fragmentary, non-reifying narratives of the continuing realities of becoming a bereaved parent.