{"title":"Positionalities of Precarity","authors":"Diane Sabenacio Nititham","doi":"10.1525/joae.2022.3.1.38","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1525/joae.2022.3.1.38","url":null,"abstract":"The ongoing neoliberal restructuring of higher education has led to the growth of contingent and temporary non–tenure track faculty positions. Drawing on the rich and growing literature on the academic precarity produced from this contingent labor, this autoethnography examines how the author sought to find an academic home while navigating the neoliberal university. First, the author discusses autoethnography as a method of resistance and situates positionalities of precarity as a state of chronic instability. Second, the author details experiences as a contingent faculty member working in different institutions. This section includes dealing with heavy workloads, juggling multiple contracts, and handling self-doubt, guilt, fear, exhaustion, and disposability. The third section analyzes the internalization of these contingencies while handling bullying and microaggressions from students and colleagues. Last, the author discusses reflections and opportunities for transformational resistance in hopes to work toward a more equitable educational and working environment. As an Asian American academic, the author also aims to add a voice to under-represented faculty in the academy.","PeriodicalId":170180,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Autoethnography","volume":"39 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131301271","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":"Review: Evocative Autoethnography: Writing Lives and Telling Stories, by Arthur P. Bochner and Carolyn Ellis","authors":"Ufuk Keles","doi":"10.1525/joae.2022.3.1.118","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1525/joae.2022.3.1.118","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":170180,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Autoethnography","volume":"24 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125738852","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":"Review: Rapid Ethnographic Assessments: A Practical Approach and Toolkit for Collaborative Community Research, by Thurka Sangaramoorthy and Karen A. Kroeger","authors":"Stephany Peterson","doi":"10.1525/joae.2022.3.1.125","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1525/joae.2022.3.1.125","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":170180,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Autoethnography","volume":"34 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123997398","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":"The (Un)Mindful Autoethnographer","authors":"S. Bliss","doi":"10.1525/joae.2021.2.4.434","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1525/joae.2021.2.4.434","url":null,"abstract":"Through exploring theory and practice of mindfulness as a personal and social practice, the author demonstrates possibilities of being aware of liminal spaces between self and others while in crisis. The author’s (un)mindful experiences while caring for her mother, who was in acute physical pain, gesture to how mindfulness practices are poignantly personal and sweetly subtle as well as socially wild, elusive, and energetic. Unfolding in three parts, this article interweaves mindfulness theory, autoethnographic vignettes of being (un)mindful, and (in)conclusive thoughts on the ability to remain mindful in the messiness to time, memory, and crisis. The article concludes by surmising that being in this life together provides ample opportunities to care for one another during times of joy as well as crisis. In an afterword, the author reflects on mindful moments of the first days of a citywide state of emergency in the 2020 pandemic.","PeriodicalId":170180,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Autoethnography","volume":"30 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121735619","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":"Re-making the World","authors":"Anandam Kavoori","doi":"10.1525/joae.2021.2.3.290","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1525/joae.2021.2.3.290","url":null,"abstract":"This collection of autoethnographic eco-poetry offers a pedagogical vision for environmental education in an age of Climate Change (and its denial). The poems reflect on the author’s 10+ years of teaching environmental storytelling. Differing in tone and thematic and emotive imprint (ruminative, conciliatory, angry, deliberative), these autoethnographic eco-poems offer entry points for the reader/educator to engage with the coming crises of Climate Change in their own lives and work. The poems reflect on the complex, contested, and incomplete journey of the author in seeking, implementing, and developing a pedagogy of investment in and for students of media—and ecology (the author teaches in both a school of communication and ecology). The poems are “Interventions” in every sense of the word—political, ecological, pedagogical, and, above all, personal.","PeriodicalId":170180,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Autoethnography","volume":"26 8 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115509247","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 Hope","authors":"Petra B. Wessner","doi":"10.1525/joae.2021.2.3.355","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1525/joae.2021.2.3.355","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":170180,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Autoethnography","volume":"61 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121654982","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":"“It’s actually a good diagnosis”","authors":"Wesley A. Johnson","doi":"10.1525/joae.2021.2.3.306","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1525/joae.2021.2.3.306","url":null,"abstract":"In this article, I offer an autoethnographic examination of unexplained infertility. The narrative is driven by a central question: how does unexplained infertility mean in my life? By exploring the how of unexplained infertility, narrative inquiry emphasizes the long-term impacts of a persistent diagnosis. As an unstable diagnosis, unexplained infertility presents a complicated site from which to consider family planning and gender work. Narrative vignettes occurring over a period of years explore identity. These experiences highlight moments of conflict and upheaval where the abstract diagnosis derails heteronormative and cisgendered constructions of fatherhood and masculinity. This infertility account disrupts codes of silence around experiencing infertility.","PeriodicalId":170180,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Autoethnography","volume":"40 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114358214","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":"Autoethnography of The Bad Thing","authors":"G. Gil","doi":"10.1525/joae.2021.2.3.279","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1525/joae.2021.2.3.279","url":null,"abstract":"This article offers an account of the author’s experience after being falsely accused online of sexual assault by a former student. More than a chronicle of events, the article serves as a critical, self-reflexive inventory of thoughts and feelings, as the author looks to come to terms with the allegations and their consequences, as well as practice concern for his accuser. More broadly, the essay serves as an inquiry into the complexities of storytelling and self-research, in relation to shame, truth, and social privilege.","PeriodicalId":170180,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Autoethnography","volume":"282 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126017971","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":"The Rituals of Pain","authors":"Mario Frausto, Vinycio Cruz Ortiz, Estefanía Díaz","doi":"10.1525/joae.2021.2.3.326","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1525/joae.2021.2.3.326","url":null,"abstract":"In this autoethnographic text I talk about my relationship with my father and my older brother as a way of analyzing the construction of my masculinity. In addition, I use the layered-account technique to alternate my personal history with fragments of texts that talk about masculinity as a social construction. In this way, I propose to turn my story into a way of showing how hegemonic masculinity is constructed through pain and violence as the bases of this gender identity.","PeriodicalId":170180,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Autoethnography","volume":"103 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122624304","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}