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Affective Movements, Methods and Pedagogies invites readers to
think with affect about performance, pedagogies and their inherent
activist, embodied and collective natures. It works across multiple
spheres to help readers understand how to deploy affective
approaches rather than to simply think with affect theory about
traditional methods. The book is structured and curated across
three main thematic sections: affective movements, methods and
pedagogies, each of which treats the core explorations of affect
and performance through a different perspective. It is concerned
with the ways performance and theatrical methods work with and
through a theoretics of affect. The sixteen chapters include work
that models theoretical practices in writing, and demonstrates how
theorising affect and its methods is itself a performative
practice. The contributors offer rich examples from diverse
geopolitical as well as disciplinary contexts, innovative methods,
and finally, intersectional theoretics. This collection will be of
interest to higher education students exploring methodologies, and
academic researchers and teachers in the fields of performance
studies, communication, critical studies, sociology and the arts.
Affective Movements, Methods and Pedagogies invites readers to
think with affect about performance, pedagogies and their inherent
activist, embodied and collective natures. It works across multiple
spheres to help readers understand how to deploy affective
approaches rather than to simply think with affect theory about
traditional methods. The book is structured and curated across
three main thematic sections: affective movements, methods and
pedagogies, each of which treats the core explorations of affect
and performance through a different perspective. It is concerned
with the ways performance and theatrical methods work with and
through a theoretics of affect. The sixteen chapters include work
that models theoretical practices in writing, and demonstrates how
theorising affect and its methods is itself a performative
practice. The contributors offer rich examples from diverse
geopolitical as well as disciplinary contexts, innovative methods,
and finally, intersectional theoretics. This collection will be of
interest to higher education students exploring methodologies, and
academic researchers and teachers in the fields of performance
studies, communication, critical studies, sociology and the arts.
Wayfinding and Critical Autoethnography is the first critical
autoethnography compilation from the global south, bringing
together indigenous, non-indigenous, Pasifika, and other diverse
voices which expand established understandings of autoethnography
as a critical, creative methodology. The book centres around the
traditional practice of 'wayfinding' as a Pacific indigenous way of
being and knowing, and this volume manifests traditional
knowledges, genealogies, and intercultural activist voices through
critical autoethnography. The chapters in the collection reflect
critical autoethnographic journeys that explore key issues such as
space/place belonging, decolonizing the academy, institutional
racism, neoliberalism, gender inequity, activism, and education
reform. This book will be a valuable teaching and research resource
for researchers and students in a wide range of disciplines and
contexts. For those interested in expanding their cultural,
personal, and scholarly knowledge of the global south, this volume
foregrounds the vast array of traditional knowledges and the ways
in which they are changing academic spaces and knowledge creation
through braiding old and new. This volume is unique and timely in
its ability to highlight the ways in which indigenous and allied
voices from the diverse global south demonstrate the ways in which
the onto-epistemologies of diverse cultures, and the work of
critical autoethnography, function as parallel, and mutually
informing, projects.
Wayfinding and Critical Autoethnography is the first critical
autoethnography compilation from the global south, bringing
together indigenous, non-indigenous, Pasifika, and other diverse
voices which expand established understandings of autoethnography
as a critical, creative methodology. The book centres around the
traditional practice of 'wayfinding' as a Pacific indigenous way of
being and knowing, and this volume manifests traditional
knowledges, genealogies, and intercultural activist voices through
critical autoethnography. The chapters in the collection reflect
critical autoethnographic journeys that explore key issues such as
space/place belonging, decolonizing the academy, institutional
racism, neoliberalism, gender inequity, activism, and education
reform. This book will be a valuable teaching and research resource
for researchers and students in a wide range of disciplines and
contexts. For those interested in expanding their cultural,
personal, and scholarly knowledge of the global south, this volume
foregrounds the vast array of traditional knowledges and the ways
in which they are changing academic spaces and knowledge creation
through braiding old and new. This volume is unique and timely in
its ability to highlight the ways in which indigenous and allied
voices from the diverse global south demonstrate the ways in which
the onto-epistemologies of diverse cultures, and the work of
critical autoethnography, function as parallel, and mutually
informing, projects.
The second edition of the award-winning Handbook of Autoethnography
is a thematically organized volume that contextualizes contemporary
practices of autoethnography and examines how the field has
developed since the publication of the first edition in 2013.
Throughout, contributors identify key autoethnographic themes and
commitments and offer examples of diverse, thoughtful, effective,
applied, and innovative autoethnography. The second edition is
organized into five sections: In Section 1, Doing Autoethnography,
contributors explore definitions of autoethnography, identify and
demonstrate key features of autoethnography, and engage
philosophical, relational, cultural, and ethical foundations of
autoethnographic practice. In Section 2, Representing
Autoethnography, contributors discuss forms and techniques for the
process and craft of creating autoethnographic projects, using
various media in/as autoethnography, and marking and making visible
particular identities, knowledges, and voices. In Section 3,
Teaching, Evaluating, and Publishing Autoethnography, contributors
focus on supporting and supervising autoethnographic projects. They
also offer perspectives on publishing and evaluating
autoethnography. In Section 4, Challenges and Futures of
Autoethnography, contributors consider contemporary challenges for
autoethnography, including understanding autoethnography as a
feminist, posthumanist, and decolonialist practice, as well as a
method for studying texts, translations, and traumas. The volume
concludes with Section 5, Autoethnographic Exemplars, a collection
of sixteen classic and contemporary texts that can serve as models
of autoethnographic scholarship. With contributions from more than
50 authors representing more than a dozen disciplines and writing
from various locations around the world, the handbook develops,
refines, and expands autoethnographic inquiry and qualitative
research. This text will be a primary resource for novice and
advanced researchers alike in a wide range of social science
disciplines.
At a time of increasingly diverse and dynamic debates on the
intersections of contemporary LGBTQ rights, trans* visibility,
same-sex families, and sexualities education, there is surprisingly
little writing on what it means to queer notions of family and
kinship networks in global context. Building on the recent wave of
scholarship on queerness in families and how families intersect
with schools, schooling and educational institutions more broadly,
this book considers how we are taught to enact family at home, at
school and through the media, and how this pedagogy has shifted and
changed over time. Conceived as a collection of keywords that take
up the vocabulary of queerness, queering practices, and queer
families, the authors employ a nuanced intersectional approach to
connect the damaging and persistent invisibility of their subject
to the complex and dominant and normalizing discourses of marriage
and family. Offering post-structural, post-humanist, and new
materialist perspectives on kinship and the family, this book moves
the conversation forward by critically interrogating and expanding
upon current knowledges about gender diversity, queer kinship, and
pedagogy.
The second edition of the award-winning Handbook of Autoethnography
is a thematically organized volume that contextualizes contemporary
practices of autoethnography and examines how the field has
developed since the publication of the first edition in 2013.
Throughout, contributors identify key autoethnographic themes and
commitments and offer examples of diverse, thoughtful, effective,
applied, and innovative autoethnography. The second edition is
organized into five sections: In Section 1, Doing Autoethnography,
contributors explore definitions of autoethnography, identify and
demonstrate key features of autoethnography, and engage
philosophical, relational, cultural, and ethical foundations of
autoethnographic practice. In Section 2, Representing
Autoethnography, contributors discuss forms and techniques for the
process and craft of creating autoethnographic projects, using
various media in/as autoethnography, and marking and making visible
particular identities, knowledges, and voices. In Section 3,
Teaching, Evaluating, and Publishing Autoethnography, contributors
focus on supporting and supervising autoethnographic projects. They
also offer perspectives on publishing and evaluating
autoethnography. In Section 4, Challenges and Futures of
Autoethnography, contributors consider contemporary challenges for
autoethnography, including understanding autoethnography as a
feminist, posthumanist, and decolonialist practice, as well as a
method for studying texts, translations, and traumas. The volume
concludes with Section 5, Autoethnographic Exemplars, a collection
of sixteen classic and contemporary texts that can serve as models
of autoethnographic scholarship. With contributions from more than
50 authors representing more than a dozen disciplines and writing
from various locations around the world, the handbook develops,
refines, and expands autoethnographic inquiry and qualitative
research. This text will be a primary resource for novice and
advanced researchers alike in a wide range of social science
disciplines.
At a time of increasingly diverse and dynamic debates on the
intersections of contemporary LGBTQ rights, trans* visibility,
same-sex families, and sexualities education, there is surprisingly
little writing on what it means to queer notions of family and
kinship networks in global context. Building on the recent wave of
scholarship on queerness in families and how families intersect
with schools, schooling and educational institutions more broadly,
this book considers how we are taught to enact family at home, at
school and through the media, and how this pedagogy has shifted and
changed over time. Conceived as a collection of keywords that take
up the vocabulary of queerness, queering practices, and queer
families, the authors employ a nuanced intersectional approach to
connect the damaging and persistent invisibility of their subject
to the complex and dominant and normalizing discourses of marriage
and family. Offering post-structural, post-humanist, and new
materialist perspectives on kinship and the family, this book moves
the conversation forward by critically interrogating and expanding
upon current knowledges about gender diversity, queer kinship, and
pedagogy.
This book addresses and demonstrates the importance of critical
approaches to autoethnography, particularly the commitment that
such approaches make to theorizing the personal and to creating
work that embodies a social justice ethos. Arts-based and
practice-led approaches to this work allow the explanatory power of
critical theory to be linked with creative, aesthetically engaging,
and personal examples of the ideas at work. By making use of
personal stories, critical autoethnography also allows for
commenting on, critiquing, and transforming damaging and unjust
cultural beliefs and practices by questioning and problematizing
the relationships of power that are bound up in these selves,
cultures and practices. The essays in this volume provide readers
with work that demonstrates how critical autoethnography offers
researchers and scholars across multiple disciplines a method for
creatively putting critical theory into action. The book will be
vital reading for students, researchers and scholars working in the
fields of education, communication studies, sociology and cultural
anthropology, and the performing arts.
Queering Autoethnography articulates for the first time the
possibilities and politics of queering autoethnography, both in
theoretical terms and as an intervention into narratives and
cultures of apology, shame and fear. Despite the so-called
mainstreaming of same-sex relationships and trans* visibility, many
within gender's 'liminal zone' remain invisible and unrecognized,
existing somewhere outside of heteronormative relationships and
institutions. At the same time, the political and scholarly
potential of autoethnography is expanding, particularly in its
potential to evoke empathic and affective responses at a time of
public numbness, a practice crucial to making scholarly research
relevant to the work of global citizenship and crafting meaningful
lives. This volume considers flash points in contemporary scholarly
and popular culture such as queer memorializing and mourning;
unintelligibility and monstrosity; physical, digital and cultural
transformations of queer lives and bodies; the power and danger
wrought in the public assembly of queer people in a culture of
massacre; and the promise of queer futurities in the contemporary
moment. It also makes original theoretical contributions that
include concepts such as massacre culture, queer terror, mundane
annihilations, and activist affect. The authors write these ideas
in action, joining theory and story as a contact zone for analysis,
critique and change.
Queering Autoethnography articulates for the first time the
possibilities and politics of queering autoethnography, both in
theoretical terms and as an intervention into narratives and
cultures of apology, shame and fear. Despite the so-called
mainstreaming of same-sex relationships and trans* visibility, many
within gender's 'liminal zone' remain invisible and unrecognized,
existing somewhere outside of heteronormative relationships and
institutions. At the same time, the political and scholarly
potential of autoethnography is expanding, particularly in its
potential to evoke empathic and affective responses at a time of
public numbness, a practice crucial to making scholarly research
relevant to the work of global citizenship and crafting meaningful
lives. This volume considers flash points in contemporary scholarly
and popular culture such as queer memorializing and mourning;
unintelligibility and monstrosity; physical, digital and cultural
transformations of queer lives and bodies; the power and danger
wrought in the public assembly of queer people in a culture of
massacre; and the promise of queer futurities in the contemporary
moment. It also makes original theoretical contributions that
include concepts such as massacre culture, queer terror, mundane
annihilations, and activist affect. The authors write these ideas
in action, joining theory and story as a contact zone for analysis,
critique and change.
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Autoethnography (Paperback)
Tony E. Adams, Stacy Holman Jones, Carolyn Ellis
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R1,459
Discovery Miles 14 590
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Autoethnography is a method of research that involves describing
and analyzing personal experiences in order to understand cultural
experiences. The method challenges canonical ways of doing research
and recognizes how personal experience influences the research
process. Autoethnography acknowledges and accomodates subjectivity,
emotionality, and the researcher's influence on research. In this
book, the authors provide a historical and conceptual overview of
autoethnography. They share their stories of coming to
autoethnography and identify key concerns and considerations that
led to the development of the method. Next, they outline the
purposes and practices-the core ideals-of autoethnography, how
autoethnographers can accomplish these ideals, and why researchers
might choose to do autoethnography. They describe the processes of
doing autoethnography, conducting fieldwork, discussing ethics in
research, and interpreting and analyzing personal experience, and
they explore the various modes and techniques used and involved in
writing autoethnography. They conclude with goals for creating and
assessing autoethnography and describe the future of
autoethnographic inquiry. Throughout, the authors provide numerous
examples of their work and share key resources. This book will
serve as both a guide to the practices of doing autoethnography and
an exemplar of autoethnographic research processes and
representations.
In The Queer Life of Things: Performance, Affect, and the
More-Than-Human, Anne M. Harris and Stacy Holman Jones offer
readers a series of chapters united in their fascination with the
animals, plants, and things with whom we share and compose our
lives. Harris and Holman Jones pick up and follow bread-crumb
trails of new materialist, posthumanist, affect, performance, and
feminist theoretics as they explore contemporary life and
world-making. They use queer theory to break open and go beyond
reason, searching for ethical and artful ways of sustaining
ourselves, our multi-species companions, and our planet.
Notions of home are of increasing concern to persons who are
interested in the unfolding narratives of inhabitation,
displacement and dislocation, and exile. Home is viewed as a
multidimensional theoretical concept that can have contradictory
meanings; homes may be understood as spaces as well as places, and
be associated with feelings, practices, and active states of being
and moving in the world. In this book, we offer a window into the
distinct ways that home is theorized and conceptualized across
disciplines. The essays in this volume pose and answer the
following critical and communicative questions about home: 1) How
do people "speak" and "story" home in their everyday lives? And
why? 2) Why and how is home-as a material presence, as a sense and
feeling, or as an absence-central to our notion of who we are, or
who we want to become as individuals, and in relation to others? 3)
What is the theoretical purchase in making home as a "unit of
analysis" in our fields of study? This collection engages home from
diverse contexts and disparate philosophical underpinnings; at the
same time the essays converse with each other by centering their
foci on the relationship between home, place, identity, and exile.
Home-how we experience it and what it that says about the "selves"
we come to occupy-is an exigent question of our contemporary
moment. Place, Identity, Exile: Storying Home Spaces delivers
timely and critical perspectives on these important questions.
Stories of Home: Place, Identity, Exile offers a window into the
distinct ways that home is theorized and conceptualized across
disciplines. The essays in this volume consider how people "speak"
and "story" home in their everyday lives, why "home" is central to
our notion of who we are, and how making home a unit of analysis in
research makes a strong conceptual contribution to the field of
communication. This collection engages home from diverse contexts
and disparate philosophical underpinnings; at the same time the
essays converse with each other by centering their foci on the
relationship between home, place, identity, and exile. Home-how we
experience it and what it says about the selves we come to
occupy-is an exigent question of our contemporary moment. Stories
of Home: Place, Identity, Exile delivers timely and critical
perspectives on these important questions.
In this innovative book, Stacy Holman Jones presents torch singing
as a much more complicated phenomenon than the familiar trope of a
woman lamenting her victimhood. With an ethnographer's eye, she
observes the bluesy torch singers, asking if they are possibly
performing critiques of the very lyrics they sing. From this
perspective, we see the singer giving expression not not only to
desire but also to an incipient determination to resist and change.
Holman Jones also reveals points of contact in the opposition
between spectators and performers, emotion and intellect, and love
and power. Instead of interpreting the expression of love as a
woman's violent mistake-as willing deception and passive
fate-Holman Jones allows us to hear an active search for hope.
In this innovative book, Stacy Holman Jones presents torch singing
as a much more complicated phenomenon than the familiar trope of a
woman lamenting her victimhood. With an ethnographer's eye, she
observes the bluesy torch singers, asking if they are possibly
performing critiques of the very lyrics they sing. From this
perspective, we see the singer giving expression not not only to
desire but also to an incipient determination to resist and change.
Holman Jones also reveals points of contact in the opposition
between spectators and performers, emotion and intellect, and love
and power. Instead of interpreting the expression of love as a
woman's violent mistake-as willing deception and passive
fate-Holman Jones allows us to hear an active search for hope.
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