Nicola Mai
- Published in print:
- 2018
- Published Online:
- May 2019
- ISBN:
- 9780226584959
- eISBN:
- 9780226585147
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- University of Chicago Press
- DOI:
- 10.7208/chicago/9780226585147.001.0001
- Subject:
- Sociology, Gender and Sexuality
The book draws on unique and original research on the experiences of women, men, transgender people, minors and third party agents working in the sex industry in a variety of settings and jobs in the ...
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The book draws on unique and original research on the experiences of women, men, transgender people, minors and third party agents working in the sex industry in a variety of settings and jobs in the European Union, the Balkans and North Africa. Mobile Orientations addresses a critical issue within the transformation of global societies: the relation between the increase in migration flows, the expansion of the sex industry and the emergence of new forms of agency and exploitation. Moral panics about migrant ‘sex slaves’ being exploited in the global sex industry obfuscate the reality that only a minority is actually trafficked. The original research evidence analysed in Mobile Orientations counters the scenario of hegemonic exploitation presented by such moral panics. It shows that by migrating and working in the global sex industry, young women and men find opportunities to counter the increased precariousness and exploitability they meet in neoliberal times. The book’s autoethnographic writing style expresses the main theoretical contribution Mobile Orientations aims to make: to provide a nuanced and emic analysis of the complex understandings of agency and exploitation of migrants working in the global sex industry. The discussion of the methodological and expressive opportunities (and challenges) offered by ethnography and participatory filmmaking is integral part of the argument made by Mobile Orientations, which ultimately challenges the criteria of scientific and documentary authenticity and the forms of social exclusion engendered by the convergence between sexual humanitarianism and neoliberalism.Less
The book draws on unique and original research on the experiences of women, men, transgender people, minors and third party agents working in the sex industry in a variety of settings and jobs in the European Union, the Balkans and North Africa. Mobile Orientations addresses a critical issue within the transformation of global societies: the relation between the increase in migration flows, the expansion of the sex industry and the emergence of new forms of agency and exploitation. Moral panics about migrant ‘sex slaves’ being exploited in the global sex industry obfuscate the reality that only a minority is actually trafficked. The original research evidence analysed in Mobile Orientations counters the scenario of hegemonic exploitation presented by such moral panics. It shows that by migrating and working in the global sex industry, young women and men find opportunities to counter the increased precariousness and exploitability they meet in neoliberal times. The book’s autoethnographic writing style expresses the main theoretical contribution Mobile Orientations aims to make: to provide a nuanced and emic analysis of the complex understandings of agency and exploitation of migrants working in the global sex industry. The discussion of the methodological and expressive opportunities (and challenges) offered by ethnography and participatory filmmaking is integral part of the argument made by Mobile Orientations, which ultimately challenges the criteria of scientific and documentary authenticity and the forms of social exclusion engendered by the convergence between sexual humanitarianism and neoliberalism.
Edlie L. Wong
- Published in print:
- 2000
- Published Online:
- May 2016
- ISBN:
- 9781479868001
- eISBN:
- 9781479899043
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- NYU Press
- DOI:
- 10.18574/nyu/9781479868001.003.0003
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Cultural Studies
Chapter 2 broadens our understanding of Reconstruction to encompass the West and its “Chinese Question.” It builds upon the analytics for articulating racial difference—differential thinking—honed in ...
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Chapter 2 broadens our understanding of Reconstruction to encompass the West and its “Chinese Question.” It builds upon the analytics for articulating racial difference—differential thinking—honed in U.S. race and ethnic studies to illuminate an early politics of comparative racialization. Chinese American activists and writers such as Wong Chin Foo and Yan Phou Lee struggled to disarticulate the powerfully racializing discourse of heathenism that helped sustain the dialectic of black inclusion/Chinese (and Native American) exclusion. Black writers such as James Williams and William H. Newby wrote against Chinese exclusion, representing it as an outgrowth of the racial proscriptions that they had faced during legalized slavery. In juxtaposing lesser-known figures from early African American and Asian American print histories, this chapter investigates the analogization of blacks and Chinese in popular discourse and how these writers negotiated and contested these homogenizing racial representations in oratory and print journalism.Less
Chapter 2 broadens our understanding of Reconstruction to encompass the West and its “Chinese Question.” It builds upon the analytics for articulating racial difference—differential thinking—honed in U.S. race and ethnic studies to illuminate an early politics of comparative racialization. Chinese American activists and writers such as Wong Chin Foo and Yan Phou Lee struggled to disarticulate the powerfully racializing discourse of heathenism that helped sustain the dialectic of black inclusion/Chinese (and Native American) exclusion. Black writers such as James Williams and William H. Newby wrote against Chinese exclusion, representing it as an outgrowth of the racial proscriptions that they had faced during legalized slavery. In juxtaposing lesser-known figures from early African American and Asian American print histories, this chapter investigates the analogization of blacks and Chinese in popular discourse and how these writers negotiated and contested these homogenizing racial representations in oratory and print journalism.
Yasir Suleiman
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- September 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780199747016
- eISBN:
- 9780199896905
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199747016.003.0003
- Subject:
- Linguistics, Sociolinguistics / Anthropological Linguistics
The chapter deals with the language-Self link in the study of Arabic in the social world. For this purpose, the chapter investigates two sites in the authors’ linguistic behaviour as a teacher ...
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The chapter deals with the language-Self link in the study of Arabic in the social world. For this purpose, the chapter investigates two sites in the authors’ linguistic behaviour as a teacher trainer in the Arabian Gulf region for the symbolic meanings these sites can. Central to this investigation is the concept of identity as a continuum which on one side is bounded by fixity and on the other by variability. The Self here is treated as a repertoire of roles, resources and attributes that are context-dependent. The material in this chapter is presented as an autoethnography. It is written in a first-person voice to reflect on the experiences of the researcher as researched subject, using memory, introspection, self-reports and personal interpretation to retrieve the data and explain them.Less
The chapter deals with the language-Self link in the study of Arabic in the social world. For this purpose, the chapter investigates two sites in the authors’ linguistic behaviour as a teacher trainer in the Arabian Gulf region for the symbolic meanings these sites can. Central to this investigation is the concept of identity as a continuum which on one side is bounded by fixity and on the other by variability. The Self here is treated as a repertoire of roles, resources and attributes that are context-dependent. The material in this chapter is presented as an autoethnography. It is written in a first-person voice to reflect on the experiences of the researcher as researched subject, using memory, introspection, self-reports and personal interpretation to retrieve the data and explain them.
William L. Randall
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- September 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780199930432
- eISBN:
- 9780190267193
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199930432.001.0001
- Subject:
- Psychology, Cognitive Psychology, Social Psychology
Every day of life, we are enmeshed in countless storylines: those we spin around the experiences we remember, the people we relate to, and the world we inhabit, plus what others spin around us. And ...
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Every day of life, we are enmeshed in countless storylines: those we spin around the experiences we remember, the people we relate to, and the world we inhabit, plus what others spin around us. And this says nothing of the stories that we read in newspapers and novels, or watch on TV, or exchange with friends; plus the stories of family, community, and culture. Because stories are at work on several levels of our lives, narrative is not something we can think calmly and coolly “about,” for we are immersed in stories at every turn. We are continually involved in “narrative knowing” and “narrative thought,” and forever playing narrative psychologist: imagining stories about our own lives and speculating on those that others entertain about theirs. This book explores the narrative complexity of ordinary life. Written in an ordinary coffee shop, where that complexity is eminently apparent, it weaves anecdotes of encounters its author experiences with speculations on his own life story, probing the narrative complexity of our memories, emotions, and identities, and our experience of everything from romance to rumor and history to religion. This innovative exercise in “autoethnography” probes the intricacies of narrative psychology with the aid of narrative thought.Less
Every day of life, we are enmeshed in countless storylines: those we spin around the experiences we remember, the people we relate to, and the world we inhabit, plus what others spin around us. And this says nothing of the stories that we read in newspapers and novels, or watch on TV, or exchange with friends; plus the stories of family, community, and culture. Because stories are at work on several levels of our lives, narrative is not something we can think calmly and coolly “about,” for we are immersed in stories at every turn. We are continually involved in “narrative knowing” and “narrative thought,” and forever playing narrative psychologist: imagining stories about our own lives and speculating on those that others entertain about theirs. This book explores the narrative complexity of ordinary life. Written in an ordinary coffee shop, where that complexity is eminently apparent, it weaves anecdotes of encounters its author experiences with speculations on his own life story, probing the narrative complexity of our memories, emotions, and identities, and our experience of everything from romance to rumor and history to religion. This innovative exercise in “autoethnography” probes the intricacies of narrative psychology with the aid of narrative thought.
Nicola Mai
- Published in print:
- 2018
- Published Online:
- May 2019
- ISBN:
- 9780226584959
- eISBN:
- 9780226585147
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Chicago Press
- DOI:
- 10.7208/chicago/9780226585147.003.0002
- Subject:
- Sociology, Gender and Sexuality
Chapter 1 further explores the author's subjective positioning and presents in more detail the methodological implications of his intimate, autoethnographic approach. It focuses on the strategic ...
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Chapter 1 further explores the author's subjective positioning and presents in more detail the methodological implications of his intimate, autoethnographic approach. It focuses on the strategic nature of this approach for understanding the emergence of the mobile orientations encompassing the subjectivities and mobilities of migrants, most of whom decide to sell sex in the short term in order to avoid being exploited in other labour sectors and to afford a better life for themselves and their families in the future. The chapter presents the notion of intimate autoethnography, which acknowledges the nature of knowledge production as co-constructed by intersubjective and affective relations between observing and observed subjects. It also presents the ways in which the complex conditions of agency of migrant sex workers can be obfuscated by sexual humanitarian, homophobic and other stigmatizing discourses emphasizing their vulnerability. Throughout the chapter the author provides examples of the ways in which he was able to engage affectively and intersubjectively with the preferred selfrepresentations offered by research participants. The chapter also reviews the data presented in the book as well as existing ethnographic research showing that the neo-abolitionist equation of migrant (and nonmigrant) sex work with trafficking does not match reality.Less
Chapter 1 further explores the author's subjective positioning and presents in more detail the methodological implications of his intimate, autoethnographic approach. It focuses on the strategic nature of this approach for understanding the emergence of the mobile orientations encompassing the subjectivities and mobilities of migrants, most of whom decide to sell sex in the short term in order to avoid being exploited in other labour sectors and to afford a better life for themselves and their families in the future. The chapter presents the notion of intimate autoethnography, which acknowledges the nature of knowledge production as co-constructed by intersubjective and affective relations between observing and observed subjects. It also presents the ways in which the complex conditions of agency of migrant sex workers can be obfuscated by sexual humanitarian, homophobic and other stigmatizing discourses emphasizing their vulnerability. Throughout the chapter the author provides examples of the ways in which he was able to engage affectively and intersubjectively with the preferred selfrepresentations offered by research participants. The chapter also reviews the data presented in the book as well as existing ethnographic research showing that the neo-abolitionist equation of migrant (and nonmigrant) sex work with trafficking does not match reality.
Kenneth Chan
- Published in print:
- 2009
- Published Online:
- September 2011
- ISBN:
- 9789622090552
- eISBN:
- 9789882207356
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Hong Kong University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5790/hongkong/9789622090552.003.0007
- Subject:
- Film, Television and Radio, Film
This chapter focuses on the way Chinese supernatural films pursue a kind of mythic autoethnography, where Chinese religious beliefs and superstitions receive an intensified makeover to emphasize the ...
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This chapter focuses on the way Chinese supernatural films pursue a kind of mythic autoethnography, where Chinese religious beliefs and superstitions receive an intensified makeover to emphasize the bizarre, the macabre, the mystical, and the inexplicable. It examines Bulletproof Monk's turn to fictitious Tibetan myths of immortality; Double Vision's cultic forms of Taoist beliefs; and The Myth's reworking of reincarnation and the semi-mythic story of the first Chinese emperor's obsession with the pill of immortality. It also analyzes the histrionics surrounding The Promise and its failure to be the film that it so anxiously aspires to be.Less
This chapter focuses on the way Chinese supernatural films pursue a kind of mythic autoethnography, where Chinese religious beliefs and superstitions receive an intensified makeover to emphasize the bizarre, the macabre, the mystical, and the inexplicable. It examines Bulletproof Monk's turn to fictitious Tibetan myths of immortality; Double Vision's cultic forms of Taoist beliefs; and The Myth's reworking of reincarnation and the semi-mythic story of the first Chinese emperor's obsession with the pill of immortality. It also analyzes the histrionics surrounding The Promise and its failure to be the film that it so anxiously aspires to be.
Karen Throsby
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- January 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780719099625
- eISBN:
- 9781526114976
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Manchester University Press
- DOI:
- 10.7228/manchester/9780719099625.003.0001
- Subject:
- Anthropology, Social and Cultural Anthropology
Opening with an autoethnographic extract detailing the end of the author’s English Channel swim, the chapter describes the sport of marathon swimming. It presents a working definition and a ...
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Opening with an autoethnographic extract detailing the end of the author’s English Channel swim, the chapter describes the sport of marathon swimming. It presents a working definition and a methodological account of the research on which the book is based. The chapter concludes with a summary of the chapters, highlighting the key arguments and concepts developed throughout the book.Less
Opening with an autoethnographic extract detailing the end of the author’s English Channel swim, the chapter describes the sport of marathon swimming. It presents a working definition and a methodological account of the research on which the book is based. The chapter concludes with a summary of the chapters, highlighting the key arguments and concepts developed throughout the book.
Gregory J. Snyder
- Published in print:
- 2017
- Published Online:
- September 2018
- ISBN:
- 9780814769867
- eISBN:
- 9780814729205
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- NYU Press
- DOI:
- 10.18574/nyu/9780814769867.003.0005
- Subject:
- Law, Intellectual Property, IT, and Media Law
This chapter goes deeper into the naming of tricks and provides a firsthand account of the process of learning to skateboard from the author’s brother and key informant, Aaron Snyder, a former ...
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This chapter goes deeper into the naming of tricks and provides a firsthand account of the process of learning to skateboard from the author’s brother and key informant, Aaron Snyder, a former professional skateboarder. We also experience the author’s attempt to skateboard himself, which ends with a minor injury.Less
This chapter goes deeper into the naming of tricks and provides a firsthand account of the process of learning to skateboard from the author’s brother and key informant, Aaron Snyder, a former professional skateboarder. We also experience the author’s attempt to skateboard himself, which ends with a minor injury.
Breanna Mohr
- Published in print:
- 2019
- Published Online:
- September 2019
- ISBN:
- 9781479859290
- eISBN:
- 9781479875597
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- NYU Press
- DOI:
- 10.18574/nyu/9781479859290.003.0005
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Media Studies
Chapter 5 is an autoethnographic account of author Breanna Mohr’s lived experiences working in a legal brothel. Initially choosing legal prostitution as an occupation when she was in her early ...
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Chapter 5 is an autoethnographic account of author Breanna Mohr’s lived experiences working in a legal brothel. Initially choosing legal prostitution as an occupation when she was in her early twenties, she found brothel work as a way to have freedom to create her own schedule so she could devote more time to getting her undergraduate degree. Mohr discovered her passion for sex work research towards the end of her undergraduate degree and decided to pursue graduate school to continue her research. In this chapter, Mohr analyzes some critical incidents that have shaped her life in the brothel. She reveals the tension felt in negotiating a price for her services and how she grapples with deciding what monetary value is fair, what she deserves, and what she can get from the client. She also reflects on how taking ownership over her sex worker identity in academia has reduced the impact of shame from the societal stigma placed on legal prostitutes. Mohr tells her story with detail and a raw insider perspective of the industry. Less
Chapter 5 is an autoethnographic account of author Breanna Mohr’s lived experiences working in a legal brothel. Initially choosing legal prostitution as an occupation when she was in her early twenties, she found brothel work as a way to have freedom to create her own schedule so she could devote more time to getting her undergraduate degree. Mohr discovered her passion for sex work research towards the end of her undergraduate degree and decided to pursue graduate school to continue her research. In this chapter, Mohr analyzes some critical incidents that have shaped her life in the brothel. She reveals the tension felt in negotiating a price for her services and how she grapples with deciding what monetary value is fair, what she deserves, and what she can get from the client. She also reflects on how taking ownership over her sex worker identity in academia has reduced the impact of shame from the societal stigma placed on legal prostitutes. Mohr tells her story with detail and a raw insider perspective of the industry.
Mwenda Ntarangwi
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- April 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780252040061
- eISBN:
- 9780252098260
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Illinois Press
- DOI:
- 10.5406/illinois/9780252040061.003.0001
- Subject:
- Anthropology, African Cultural Anthropology
This chapter summarizes in brief an ethnography which demonstrates a close collaboration between the subject and researcher; the role one hip hop artist plays in a counterdiscourse to Christianity's ...
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This chapter summarizes in brief an ethnography which demonstrates a close collaboration between the subject and researcher; the role one hip hop artist plays in a counterdiscourse to Christianity's conservative posture in Kenya; a methodological approach that blurs any assumed distance between object and subject; and the intersections, overlaps, and collaborations that have taken place in the life and work of Julius Owino—more famously known as Juliani—as an artist and the author's own as the ethnographer. This chapter provides the groundwork for later discussion by briefly examining the life and career of Juliani as well as his own relationship with the author, and by providing overviews of the major themes underpinning this volume as a whole—hip hop, youth culture, and Christianity.Less
This chapter summarizes in brief an ethnography which demonstrates a close collaboration between the subject and researcher; the role one hip hop artist plays in a counterdiscourse to Christianity's conservative posture in Kenya; a methodological approach that blurs any assumed distance between object and subject; and the intersections, overlaps, and collaborations that have taken place in the life and work of Julius Owino—more famously known as Juliani—as an artist and the author's own as the ethnographer. This chapter provides the groundwork for later discussion by briefly examining the life and career of Juliani as well as his own relationship with the author, and by providing overviews of the major themes underpinning this volume as a whole—hip hop, youth culture, and Christianity.
Ben Tran
- Published in print:
- 2017
- Published Online:
- September 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780823273133
- eISBN:
- 9780823273188
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Fordham University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5422/fordham/9780823273133.003.0002
- Subject:
- Literature, World Literature
Chapter 1 elaborates upon the relationship between the native intellectual’s vexed masculinity, analyzing reportage as a form of bodily knowledge indicative of the post-mandarin’s uncertain ...
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Chapter 1 elaborates upon the relationship between the native intellectual’s vexed masculinity, analyzing reportage as a form of bodily knowledge indicative of the post-mandarin’s uncertain sexuality. The chapter focuses on Tam Lang and Thạch Lam’s writings on prostitution, a recurring theme in Vietnamese reportage. These native male chroniclers persistently gazed at commercial sex workers who were sexually intimate with European men. The prospects of such liaisons were threatening in so far as they gave Vietnamese women access to modern culture, while the male Vietnamese observers remained excluded from modernization, despite their active pursuit of modern knowledge. The chapter argues that reportage is not merely a case of the colonized subject writing back against the colonizer, but that it also points to the post-mandarin’s ambiguous masculinity and authorial predicament in the triangular relationship between the European male figure and the Vietnam sex worker.Less
Chapter 1 elaborates upon the relationship between the native intellectual’s vexed masculinity, analyzing reportage as a form of bodily knowledge indicative of the post-mandarin’s uncertain sexuality. The chapter focuses on Tam Lang and Thạch Lam’s writings on prostitution, a recurring theme in Vietnamese reportage. These native male chroniclers persistently gazed at commercial sex workers who were sexually intimate with European men. The prospects of such liaisons were threatening in so far as they gave Vietnamese women access to modern culture, while the male Vietnamese observers remained excluded from modernization, despite their active pursuit of modern knowledge. The chapter argues that reportage is not merely a case of the colonized subject writing back against the colonizer, but that it also points to the post-mandarin’s ambiguous masculinity and authorial predicament in the triangular relationship between the European male figure and the Vietnam sex worker.
Henry Jenkins
- Published in print:
- 2013
- Published Online:
- March 2014
- ISBN:
- 9781617038068
- eISBN:
- 9781621039549
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University Press of Mississippi
- DOI:
- 10.14325/mississippi/9781617038068.003.0024
- Subject:
- Literature, Comics Studies
This chapter is an autoethnography of the author’s relationship to superhero comics. His reflections are shaped by his experience of grief over the recent death of his mother. He attempts to find out ...
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This chapter is an autoethnography of the author’s relationship to superhero comics. His reflections are shaped by his experience of grief over the recent death of his mother. He attempts to find out what comics might have to say to him about death, aging, and mortality. He says that while comic books did not take away his pain, they helped him make meaning of it. He develops an understanding of why superheroes hold onto their grief, their rage, their anguish, and draw upon this as a source of strength.Less
This chapter is an autoethnography of the author’s relationship to superhero comics. His reflections are shaped by his experience of grief over the recent death of his mother. He attempts to find out what comics might have to say to him about death, aging, and mortality. He says that while comic books did not take away his pain, they helped him make meaning of it. He develops an understanding of why superheroes hold onto their grief, their rage, their anguish, and draw upon this as a source of strength.
Kausar S. Khan
- Published in print:
- 2017
- Published Online:
- August 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780190656546
- eISBN:
- 9780190848460
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/oso/9780190656546.003.0011
- Subject:
- Sociology, Urban and Rural Studies
This chapter by Kausar S. Khan draws continuities between her early research in unplanned settlements (katchi abadis) in Orangi, her activism in the Karachi’s Women’s Action Forum, and her academic ...
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This chapter by Kausar S. Khan draws continuities between her early research in unplanned settlements (katchi abadis) in Orangi, her activism in the Karachi’s Women’s Action Forum, and her academic research into the effects of structural, gendered and political violence on women and marginalized communities. She offers a moving account of the deaths of four friends in 2013. Khan writes using the first person, forcing the reader into an intimate, uncomfortable relation with the text, and the emotional landscape she engages. This compelling auto-ethnographic piece highlights the contradiction in experiences of loss and grief which are deeply unfathomable, compared with the need to crystallize their articulation in activist agendas. Thereby it comprises a view into violence’s lasting effects, ways research and activism co-constitute spaces of mourning, and the basis of a hardening desire to oppose violence by the means available.Less
This chapter by Kausar S. Khan draws continuities between her early research in unplanned settlements (katchi abadis) in Orangi, her activism in the Karachi’s Women’s Action Forum, and her academic research into the effects of structural, gendered and political violence on women and marginalized communities. She offers a moving account of the deaths of four friends in 2013. Khan writes using the first person, forcing the reader into an intimate, uncomfortable relation with the text, and the emotional landscape she engages. This compelling auto-ethnographic piece highlights the contradiction in experiences of loss and grief which are deeply unfathomable, compared with the need to crystallize their articulation in activist agendas. Thereby it comprises a view into violence’s lasting effects, ways research and activism co-constitute spaces of mourning, and the basis of a hardening desire to oppose violence by the means available.
Sidonie Smith and Julia Watson
- Published in print:
- 2002
- Published Online:
- August 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780816669851
- eISBN:
- 9781452946238
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Minnesota Press
- DOI:
- 10.5749/minnesota/9780816669851.003.0005
- Subject:
- Literature, Criticism/Theory
This chapter examines some emergent forms of life writing that have recently gained prominence. These include the new-model national narrative; narratives of rights, testimony, incarceration, and ...
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This chapter examines some emergent forms of life writing that have recently gained prominence. These include the new-model national narrative; narratives of rights, testimony, incarceration, and reconciliation; embodiment stories of gender and sexuality, gastrography, and “conscious aging”; narratives of grief, mourning, and reparation; narratives of breakdown and breakthrough, illness, impairment, vulnerability, addiction, and recovery; autoethnography; ecobiography; and the celebrity self-advertisements of movie stars, sports heroes, and military leaders. This examination exposes how autobiographical acts take place at cultural sites where discourses intersect, conflict, and compete with one another, as narrators are pulled and tugged into complex and contradictory self-positionings through a performative dialogism. In these acts the terms of the narrator-audience relationship are renegotiated as writers and practitioners develop new rhetorics of identity and strategies of self-presentation for being heard as different subjects and subjects in difference.Less
This chapter examines some emergent forms of life writing that have recently gained prominence. These include the new-model national narrative; narratives of rights, testimony, incarceration, and reconciliation; embodiment stories of gender and sexuality, gastrography, and “conscious aging”; narratives of grief, mourning, and reparation; narratives of breakdown and breakthrough, illness, impairment, vulnerability, addiction, and recovery; autoethnography; ecobiography; and the celebrity self-advertisements of movie stars, sports heroes, and military leaders. This examination exposes how autobiographical acts take place at cultural sites where discourses intersect, conflict, and compete with one another, as narrators are pulled and tugged into complex and contradictory self-positionings through a performative dialogism. In these acts the terms of the narrator-audience relationship are renegotiated as writers and practitioners develop new rhetorics of identity and strategies of self-presentation for being heard as different subjects and subjects in difference.
Jessica Berson
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- January 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780199846207
- eISBN:
- 9780190272623
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199846207.003.0002
- Subject:
- Music, Dance
This chapter addresses the use of autoethnography as a guiding methodology and situates this approach within a body of work on ethnography and autoethnography, especially in studies of sex work. ...
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This chapter addresses the use of autoethnography as a guiding methodology and situates this approach within a body of work on ethnography and autoethnography, especially in studies of sex work. Participant/observer and autoethnographic research destabilize conventional assumptions about academic inquiry. Autoethnography has been described as a tool for resistance against dominant and oppressive discourses, including colonialism, gender discrimination, and racism; it has also been vilified as glorified navel-gazing and can be cloying to read. As with so many other forms of academic writing, autoethnography tends to neglect a sense of embodiment, even when focusing on bodies. This chapter brings the concept of kinesthesia to bear on the practice of autoethnography, attempting to develop a mode of embodied witnessing that takes into account both sensate experience and the capacity for critical analysis.Less
This chapter addresses the use of autoethnography as a guiding methodology and situates this approach within a body of work on ethnography and autoethnography, especially in studies of sex work. Participant/observer and autoethnographic research destabilize conventional assumptions about academic inquiry. Autoethnography has been described as a tool for resistance against dominant and oppressive discourses, including colonialism, gender discrimination, and racism; it has also been vilified as glorified navel-gazing and can be cloying to read. As with so many other forms of academic writing, autoethnography tends to neglect a sense of embodiment, even when focusing on bodies. This chapter brings the concept of kinesthesia to bear on the practice of autoethnography, attempting to develop a mode of embodied witnessing that takes into account both sensate experience and the capacity for critical analysis.
Angela K. Ahlgren
- Published in print:
- 2018
- Published Online:
- May 2018
- ISBN:
- 9780199374014
- eISBN:
- 9780199374052
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/oso/9780199374014.003.0004
- Subject:
- Music, Dance, Ethnomusicology, World Music
The chapter uses autoethnography and personal interviews to illustrate the experiences of white and black women in taiko. Given that a majority of taiko players in the United States are Asian ...
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The chapter uses autoethnography and personal interviews to illustrate the experiences of white and black women in taiko. Given that a majority of taiko players in the United States are Asian American, taiko is a rare site in which white bodies are seen not as normal but rather as remarkable. Some black women, however, are seen as more American than their Asian and Asian American groupmates. In addition to the impact of racial identity, white and black women also experience taiko as open to a range of gender expressions and as an empowering art form. The chapter examines the ways white, black, and Asian American performers are triangulated and how taiko players experience whiteness and blackness as embodied, lived experience. The chapter traces the history of Iris Shiraishi’s song “Torii” to suggest that taiko has potential to forge productive cross-racial intimacies.Less
The chapter uses autoethnography and personal interviews to illustrate the experiences of white and black women in taiko. Given that a majority of taiko players in the United States are Asian American, taiko is a rare site in which white bodies are seen not as normal but rather as remarkable. Some black women, however, are seen as more American than their Asian and Asian American groupmates. In addition to the impact of racial identity, white and black women also experience taiko as open to a range of gender expressions and as an empowering art form. The chapter examines the ways white, black, and Asian American performers are triangulated and how taiko players experience whiteness and blackness as embodied, lived experience. The chapter traces the history of Iris Shiraishi’s song “Torii” to suggest that taiko has potential to forge productive cross-racial intimacies.
Richard D. Sawyer and Joe Norris
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- March 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780199757404
- eISBN:
- 9780190255992
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:osobl/9780199757404.003.0001
- Subject:
- Psychology, Social Psychology
This introductory chapter provides an overview of duoethnography. It explains that a dialogic context in duoethnography is not only a conversation between people, but between people and their ...
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This introductory chapter provides an overview of duoethnography. It explains that a dialogic context in duoethnography is not only a conversation between people, but between people and their insights of cultural artifacts that generate new meanings. Duoethnographers work in tandem to dialogically analyze and question the meanings duoethnography gives to social issues and epistemological constructs, selecting social themes to investigate and engage in data analysis. Duoethnography first appeared as a research methodology in 2004, when Joe Norris and Richard D. Sawyer wrote a dialogic autoethnography and selected the name “duoethnography” because of its plural applications. They began working with duoethnography to present their stories and expose the culturally related nature of sexual orientation in a heteronormatively framed world.Less
This introductory chapter provides an overview of duoethnography. It explains that a dialogic context in duoethnography is not only a conversation between people, but between people and their insights of cultural artifacts that generate new meanings. Duoethnographers work in tandem to dialogically analyze and question the meanings duoethnography gives to social issues and epistemological constructs, selecting social themes to investigate and engage in data analysis. Duoethnography first appeared as a research methodology in 2004, when Joe Norris and Richard D. Sawyer wrote a dialogic autoethnography and selected the name “duoethnography” because of its plural applications. They began working with duoethnography to present their stories and expose the culturally related nature of sexual orientation in a heteronormatively framed world.
