An Unauthorized Autoethnography of the Academic Life of Dr X

Henson, Donna F.

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“…For instance, Netolicky (2015) and Kim (2016) suggest imaginative ways to go about narrative, bringing fantasy and fiction into one. Henson (2017) advocates for a fracturing of narrative, showing the many-sided aspects of the individual storytelling subject. Recent theory in qualitative research has encouraged us to embrace the post-structural methods, to ‘puncture that smooth and soothing narrative surface of narrative data’ (Taylor, 2017: 313).…”

Section: Post-structural Narrative Researchmentioning

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Freeplaying with narrative: A Jogando method in/as Capoeira research

Cruz

Griffith

Lawal

2021

Qualitative Research

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In this article, we rethink the ways that analysis within narrative research might occur based on the topic being studied and provide an example using the Afro-Brazilian martial art capoeira. Locating our work at the intersection of Derridean freeplay and the spirit of play present in the Afro-Brazilian martial art capoeira, we reconceive of the ways that narratives may be constructed, and suggest that the topic under study, capoeira, may actually become an analytic. This piece offers one of many potential directions for rethinking analysis of narrative data and representing participant experiences and suggests blurring lines between content and method of analysis. While our own analysis occurs using play as it appears in capoeira, we suggest that any number of research topics may be used to inform the ways that we analyze data.

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Section: Post-structural Narrative Researchmentioning

confidence: 99%

Freeplaying with narrative: A Jogando method in/as Capoeira research

Cruz

Griffith

Lawal

2021

Qualitative Research

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Imagine there’s no university: sustaining academic identifications in pandemic times

Sánchez

2021

Journal of Psychosocial Studies

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Through an autoethnographic exercise, this article reflects on the destabilisations that the Covid-19 pandemic has provoked for academic identifications. Drawing from Lacanian psychoanalysis and Ernesto Laclau’s theory, the pandemic is conceptualised as an ‘imaginary dislocation’. This analytical device is deployed to examine the author’s scenes of reading and writing during the first year of his PhD in the UK. By conceptualising the pandemic as an imaginary dislocation, the interpretation focuses on the unconscious content repressed in both scenes as an indicator of the struggles to endure in his academic identity vis-à-vis the erosion of his imaginary of the university. In order to capture this messy, elusive content, the interpretation relies on the idea of the tremor. Emerging incessantly in the author’s readings during the pandemic, the tremor is explored here as a trope staging, in unison, unconscious encounters, a trait of the author’s identity and a metaphor of the pandemic. Therefore, by both advancing a conceptual proposal and interpreting an empirical case, the article seeks to contribute to the understanding of how the pandemic has affected the imaginary frameworks within which our symbolic identifications find stability.

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An Unauthorized Autoethnography of the Academic Life of Dr X

Cited by 2 publications

References 9 publications

Freeplaying with narrative: A Jogando method in/as Capoeira research

Freeplaying with narrative: A Jogando method in/as Capoeira research

Imagine there’s no university: sustaining academic identifications in pandemic times

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