FORCE : Dynamic Life Drawing
Mike Mattesi · 2017 · 211 pages
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Annotation Autoethnography allows researchers to make sense of the ¿ethno¿ ¿the cultural ¿ by studying their own experiences¿ the ¿auto¿. It links the self to the cultural, allowing for an inductive grounding of theoretical insight into researchers' lived experiences. But what happens when the culture that we research is not conventionally or entirely our ¿own¿? What happens when our culture does not neatly conceptualise the ¿auto¿ as an individual, Western self? And does autoethnographic writing risk reducing cultural ¿Others¿ if we cannot help but see them through ¿imperial eyes¿?Questions of Culture in Autoethnography showcases, with examples from myriad contexts and standpoints, how cross-cultural autoethnographies might be done effectively, ethically, and reflectively. Chapters include: identity work among Tibetans in India and among the descendants of Spanish conquistadores in Appalachia; insider/outsider identities in myriad contexts from Mexico to Japan; embodied (gendered, raced, sized) intercultural experiences from Samoa to Aotearoa/New Zealand and from Canada to Malawi; language stories from Korea to Singapore and from Somalia to Australia; and cultural Otherness within ¿a¿ culture, including researchers¿ accounts of working with Indigenous Australians, of contesting mainstream cultural narratives from a body positive perspective, and as a seemingly same English-speaking US American man in New Zealand¿s ¿bloke culture¿. For all scholars of qualitative methods and
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