Auto/Ethnography: Rewriting the Self and the Social

Archetti, Eduardo P.; Reed‐Danahay, Deborah

doi:10.2307/3317445

Cited by 136 publications

(35 citation statements)

References 0 publications

Supporting

Mentioning

Contrasting

Unclassified

Order By: Relevance

“…It was Reed-Danahay (1997) who revived the term autoethnography, reminding us of the long history of anthropologist's interest in the self, which thereafter prompted a new generation of anthropologists to bring their personal stories to the forefront of their work. In describing the potential of self-reflection as a systematic methodological approach, the inquiry method of autoethnography allows researchers easy access to the primary data source from the outset as the source is the researchers themselves.…”

Section: Methodsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“Academic-Mothers” in Higher Education with Adult Children: Navigating Social Isolation, Shifting Households, and Professional Challenges During the Pandemic

Jagganath,

Singh

2023

The Oriental Anthropologist: A Bi-annual International Journal

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

The COVID-19 pandemic led to the daily loss of lives, changing people’s mobility and relatedness, as well as bringing about disruption and transformation of health, education, economic, and cultural systems globally. The pandemic mitigation strategies, which encompassed domestic isolation, intensified household interactions and activities. Recent global studies indicate that the pandemic exposed long-standing inequities and vulnerabilities of systematically marginalized groups. It has also been argued that in academia the professional disenfranchisement and rights conflict between genders encompass differences in workload and professional support. In the South African higher education context, the pandemic created uncertainties for academic mothers who not only navigated these roles but who had diverse lived experiences of fluctuating COVID-19 infection rates and lockdown restrictions, changing household spatial arrangements, financial constraints, mental health challenges and the impact of civil unrest at the time. The disparate toll of the pandemic on academics, specifically those parenting children, performing gender-based household roles while simultaneously engaging in multiple academic duties, requires more attention in the South African context. This research article presents two autoethnographic accounts of the professional and social challenges experienced during various phases of the lockdown.

show abstract

Section: Methodsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“Academic-Mothers” in Higher Education with Adult Children: Navigating Social Isolation, Shifting Households, and Professional Challenges During the Pandemic

Jagganath,

Singh

2023

The Oriental Anthropologist: A Bi-annual International Journal

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

show abstract

“…We study teaching gender‐related topics in a business school as a socio‐cultural phenomenon through our personal experience. Autoethnography enables us to focus on the self while taking a wider ethnographic gaze (Reed‐Danahay, 1997) and to illuminate something that would be difficult to capture through other methods of inquiry (Behar, 1996). Doing autoethnography in a feminist spirit encourages us to expose ourselves in “a matrix of always and already political activities” as we pass through our cultural experiences (Ettorre, 2016).…”

Section: Teaching Gender In the Business School: Context And Collabor...mentioning

confidence: 99%

Anticipating resistance: Teaching gender and management to business school students

Stierncreutz,

Tienari

2023

Gender Work & Organization

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Gender perspectives and feminism are rarely considered legitimate in business school education. Existing research tells us that those who teach in business schools do so in conditions where feminist theories and pedagogy evoke resistance and where their work is paved with discomfort caused by tensions between feminist and neoliberal idea(l)s. We argue that for those challenging the status quo in the business school through teaching, the impact of the threat of resistance can be as “real” as that of realized resistance. In this paper, we engage with collaborative autoethnography and elucidate how our anticipation of resistance shapes the way we teach, even when resistance does not materialize in the classroom. Building on reflections of our shared experiences, we theorize anticipated resistance as productive in and of itself, challenging the conventional view of resistance as brought into being through resisting practices at a specific time and place.

show abstract

“…In Being Between Binary, I maintain a focus on space and power but shift my focus from the institutional to the personal, placing stories of my life within stories of the social context(s) in which they occur (Humphreys, 2005;Reed-Danahay, 1997). It is this connecting of the personal to the cultural (Ellis and Bochner, 2000) which is at the core of auto-ethnography.…”

Section: Contextsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Being between binary: Personal narratives and power geometry: A visual essay

Thomas

2021

Sexualities

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Being Between Binary is a visual critical auto-ethnography, combining collage, cartoon, narrative and photomontage in the form of a four-page A2 scrapbook. Conceptually and materially, the design combines map and memoir, placing Massey’s concept of power geometry into dialogue with personal experiences of sexuality and gender. The piece explores binaries and geographies of here/there, Global North/South, through a lens of borderlands, boundaries and crossings, modelling dissemination as a fluid space of continuing enquiry. This visual essay first contextualizes the making of the piece as creative fieldwork, matching ‘a synthesis of shattered fragments’, and then presents images of the work with brief commentary.

show abstract

Auto/Ethnography: Rewriting the Self and the Social

Cited by 136 publications

References 0 publications

“Academic-Mothers” in Higher Education with Adult Children: Navigating Social Isolation, Shifting Households, and Professional Challenges During the Pandemic

“Academic-Mothers” in Higher Education with Adult Children: Navigating Social Isolation, Shifting Households, and Professional Challenges During the Pandemic

Anticipating resistance: Teaching gender and management to business school students

Being between binary: Personal narratives and power geometry: A visual essay

Contact Info

Product

Resources

About