{"title":"Methodologically Whirling","authors":"S. Gulamhusein","doi":"10.1525/joae.2024.5.1.7","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1525/joae.2024.5.1.7","url":null,"abstract":"In this article, the use of autoethnography and third-wave feminism allows for an exciting, creative, and unruly method to emerge. The author knits together their theoretical location with an autoethnographic methodology, uniquely coining this approach to autoethnography as Third-Wave Dervish. By doing so, the creation of many micro- and macro-reflective spins—the act of whirling—holds space for an ever-evolving process of gaining knowledge from multiple sources such as somatic sensations, understanding through already published scholarship, learning through resistance, revisiting child- and youth-hood journals, and the triggering of lived experiences. This process allows the author to deepen the understanding of living in the in-between of social spaces as an Ismaili Muslim woman in Canada.","PeriodicalId":170180,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Autoethnography","volume":"122 14","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139453805","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A Scot an’ a Sassenach scrieve aboot leid: A three-pairt Scotoethnography","authors":"Alec Grant, Susan Young","doi":"10.1525/joae.2024.5.1.39","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1525/joae.2024.5.1.39","url":null,"abstract":"This autoethnography is written in three parts and is influenced by layered account writing principles. In part one, the first author develops his “Scotoethnography.” In a poetic and prose mixture of Scots and Standard English, he critically explores his early socialization away from Scots toward Standard English. With examples from his lived experience, his published autoethnographic work, literary texts, and personal communication, he advocates for his use of Scots as an extra conceptual and linguistic resource. In part two he describes his research into the theoretical and empirical grounding of the article. Part three is a critically focused dialogue between the authors. It ranges across defining “Scotoethnography” and the first author’s motivation for crafting the paper; the emerging political and cultural implications of othering, colonization, and silencing of Scottish identity; the passion and creativity inherent in Scots relative to Standard English; and, finally, the implications for autoethnographers who wish to rescue their regional dialects from monolinguistic entrapment in Standard English.","PeriodicalId":170180,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Autoethnography","volume":"28 45","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139455993","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Torpified by Gaming","authors":"Yacine Kout","doi":"10.1525/joae.2023.4.1.139","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1525/joae.2023.4.1.139","url":null,"abstract":"In this autoethnographic text I unveil new possibilities to better understand learning in video gaming. In many ways, the use of video gaming in schooling has merely moved the bubble sheet to the screen, continuing the problematic idea that to learn is to repeat pre-established answers. In sharp contrast with this model, I rely on Diller’s concept of torpification, the capacity to be moved or awed morally, ethically, aesthetically, epistemologically, and/or ontologically1 to share my experiences of learning through video gaming. I offer three epiphanies that made me face my own ignorance, question my identity, and rebuild my understanding of the world. By sharing my stories, I invite fellow players/scholars to engage on the autoethnographic path and to continue examining and sharing their learning experiences as insiders to the video-gaming community.","PeriodicalId":170180,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Autoethnography","volume":"15 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130527831","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Forgiving Family Members","authors":"Sakina Jangbar","doi":"10.1525/joae.2023.4.1.87","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1525/joae.2023.4.1.87","url":null,"abstract":"Forgiveness is considered necessary for psychological well-being after surviving violence, but it is not clear how the hurt person should proceed. This essay gives a firsthand account of the trauma the author experienced and how she healed herself by discovering an indirect route to forgiveness.","PeriodicalId":170180,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Autoethnography","volume":"9 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128668468","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Shedding the Shards of Expectations","authors":"Kelly Opdycke","doi":"10.1525/joae.2023.4.1.39","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1525/joae.2023.4.1.39","url":null,"abstract":"In my first years of contingency, I began having anxiety-ridden dreams. The most prominent one featured me with shattered mirror skin. As I removed the shards, I felt the pain of each one tearing away. In this article, I consider how my whiteness and my neurodivergency intersect to impact how I feel about my position as a contingent faculty. Within the whiteness of academia, my white skin provides me with solace, but when my neurodivergency or precarious position reveal themselves, my investment in whiteness becomes harmful. These tensions pull at me. As I pull each shard off, my body tries to mold into an academic. In Disidentifications, José Esteban Muñoz writes, “disidentification is a step further than cracking open the code of the majority; it proceeds to use this code as raw material for representing a disempowered politics or positionality that has been rendered unthinkable by the dominant culture.”1 As I reflect on the tensions between whiteness, neurodivergency, and contingency, I find ways to disidentify as a means of survival in an academia that has little room for neurodivergency.","PeriodicalId":170180,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Autoethnography","volume":"47 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133365720","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Good Autoethnography","authors":"T. E. Adams, Andrew Herrmann","doi":"10.1525/joae.2023.4.1.1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1525/joae.2023.4.1.1","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":170180,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Autoethnography","volume":"23 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127545889","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Finding My Front Porch","authors":"Colin Whitworth","doi":"10.1525/joae.2023.4.1.102","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1525/joae.2023.4.1.102","url":null,"abstract":"This essay uses narratives from the author’s life (childhood, adolescence, and young adulthood) to claim that regional identity is an overlooked aspect of intersectionality. By focusing on the intersections of queerness and the U.S. South, this essay approaches region as an example of Yep’s “thickening” intersectionality, using poetry and narrative to make the case that regional identity is a complicating, messy, and inseparable aspect of intersectional identity including preconceived cultural associations and systemic attitudes. By locating narratives along the lines of everyday performance of self, focusing on text and voice, this essay illustrates the inextricable intersectional relationship of place, space, and identity.","PeriodicalId":170180,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Autoethnography","volume":"33 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128221360","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Modern-Day Neanderthal","authors":"Travis Brisini","doi":"10.1525/joae.2023.4.1.10","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1525/joae.2023.4.1.10","url":null,"abstract":"Advances in contemporary genetic science have reshaped the narratives whereby individuals and communities make sense of their personal, family, and communal histories. In this process, unknown connections have been revealed and familiar orthodoxies disrupted. This essay examines the consequences of a particularly unusual revelation—the dawning awareness of the presence of nonhuman and archaic human DNA in human genetic lines—for efforts at writing about identity and society. In this autoethnographic account, I examine my own genetic inheritance of Neanderthal DNA, and posit a performative concept of genetic life writing that begins to unpack the complexities of this new knowledge about our human condition. Rather than providing the key to unlocking an “essential” humanity, the murky, messy, and multispecies genome reveals an essentially ecological quality to humanity, and to our individual identities.","PeriodicalId":170180,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Autoethnography","volume":"97 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114198953","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Who Is the Real Victim?","authors":"Cimmiaron F. Alvarez","doi":"10.1525/joae.2023.4.1.124","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1525/joae.2023.4.1.124","url":null,"abstract":"Sexual violence in its many forms is experienced by an overwhelming number of women and men in the United States.1 Yet, women who are survivors of sexual violence who are then accused of similar sexual violence lack a voice in the literature. In this autoethnography, the author tells a story of victimization using Ellis’s sociological introspection to analyze her feelings of the assault.2 Following this analysis, she continues her narrative by recounting another form of victimization: being falsely accused of sexual assault. Through sociological introspection, the author establishes parallels between her two experiences.","PeriodicalId":170180,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Autoethnography","volume":"9 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115793194","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Corporate Disobedience","authors":"Dustin Grinnell","doi":"10.1525/joae.2023.4.1.25","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1525/joae.2023.4.1.25","url":null,"abstract":"This personal narrative explores organizational disobedience as implemented by a former employee of the marketing department of a major hospital in Boston, Massachusetts. The essay captures authoritarianism and illiberalism that the author witnessed within management, as well as the tension and erosion of the self that accompanies working for a corporation that values obedience above all else. To protect identities, pseudonyms are used in place of real names, and identifying details are avoided.","PeriodicalId":170180,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Autoethnography","volume":"12 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123919634","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}