... as appropriate knowledge under Western-centered worldviews. The previous two paragraphs bring us full circle in the spiderweb by retuning us to knowledge production as we consider transnational autoethnography. In particular, they situate me at two moments that deeply...

... underneath them. ∼Gloria E. Anzaldúa 1 The issue with turning stones and finding worms underneath, dear Gloria, is that once you begin that process, it can be difficult to stop exploring, questioning. For that purpose, I use performance autoethnography—“a body-centered method of knowing” 7...

... to use a standpoint of privilege in challenging everyday acts of oppression. I offer a dominant group methodology that uses dominant group theory as a heuristic to practice critical self-reflexivity through autoethnography. I follow by providing autoethnographic accounts of moments when I complicitly...

... by The Regents of the University of California 2021 Health communication Parenting Poetic inquiry Autoethnography Every time I walk into a children’s hospital, I feel pulled between my past and my likely future. I enter this space as a scholar conducting research only because I also enter...

...Jesús Martínez Saucedo “A Eulogy for My Father” is a long citational poem that integrates various writing techniques, such as writing and rewriting, autoethnography, prose, vignette, and citation. Following Mexican poet Sara Uribe, this poem acts as a “sounding board” that allows...

... there. This evocative autoethnography explores the experience of a recent émigré of Venezuela to the United States interviewing journalists in his former home country. The emergence of elements that rearticulate the sense of belonging in the interviewer are used as touch points to a reality presumably left behind...

... of the University of California 2021 Black space Autoethnography Black cultural performance Black music Black popular culture We finally reach her parents’ house, an elegant two-story home built by her maternal great-grandfather in 1922. We pull into the driveway. I see white people on both sides...

...LD Mattson Growing up in Florida as a queer subject, I bounced from disaster to disaster. The annual hurricane season reminds me of this vulnerability, despite my racial and class privilege to background my precarity. Through reflection, the hurricane brings me home. In this autoethnography...

...-Southerners in popular media, the social and cultural regulation of hegemonic Southern deportment, and our own Floridian-Southern identity. © 2021 by The Regents of the University of California 2021 Autoethnography Southern culture Southern identity Florida Gender Sitting in front...

...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...

.... By aiming to understand EFEs within the cultural context they are lived through, this autoethnography emphasizes the use of personal experience to examine not only the self, but also wider sociocultural responses to a specific issue. 45 The intention is for the reader to consider their own response...

...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...

... 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...

... . 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...

... 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 issue on merit, privilege...

... or reproduce article content at the University of California Press's Reprints and Permissions web page, http://www.ucpress.edu/journals.php?p=reprints 2019 Autoethnography Performative writing Race Creative nonfiction Postcolonialism Whiteness Oppression In smashing and terrorizing human...

... to displacing whiteness) produced and reproduced within the academy. Kiara is an African American sociologist who teaches about structural racism and race relations in the United States. She applied for tenure and was denied. Autoethnography Racial violence Whiteness Meritocracy Civility...

... 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...

... but it will have to do. Here are some poems, moving on.                    *** Hope Is a Four-Letter Word the warm hay-scented wind is stirring the sun-gold hair on his freckled forearm, windows down on a back-road country song. Autoethnography Family communication Feminism Things...

...=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...