{"title":"Hail Mary","authors":"Vicki S. Hallett","doi":"10.1525/JOAE.2020.1.4.354","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1525/JOAE.2020.1.4.354","url":null,"abstract":"Through an exploration of the imbricated identities of mother, feminist academic, and Recovering Catholic, the author demonstrates how poetry can be a method of inquiry into the self and the culture(s) that gave birth to it, and a method of meaning making. This autoethnographic essay invites readers to make their own meanings of motherhood through an encounter with poetry. Poetry is used as a way to convey the author’s own experiences of motherhood and mothering within a particular religious and cultural tradition so as to provide some critical perspective on both.","PeriodicalId":170180,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Autoethnography","volume":"35 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-09-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122703440","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 Only Way Out Is Through","authors":"C. Voorde","doi":"10.1525/joae.2020.1.3.284","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1525/joae.2020.1.3.284","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":170180,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Autoethnography","volume":"51 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-07-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115050939","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 Anthropocene, Affect, and Autoethnography?","authors":"K. Gale","doi":"10.1525/joae.2020.1.3.304","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1525/joae.2020.1.3.304","url":null,"abstract":"Freedom is not simply something that can be stood outside of and decided upon in terms of freedom to or freedom from. Freedom is fluid, dynamic, and ecological, existing where, in the volatility and unpredictability of the act, difference can be made. In the practice of experience making that Stewart refers to as “worlding,” there exists the processually differentiating capacity to bring to life encounters and events in which the energy of the future lies in the speculative force and living potential of the always not yet known. Autoethnographies are not to be considered epistemological groundings that assert what they mean, or to state what they are or might be in some metaphysics of the future. Working instead with “futurity,” autoethnographic doing is at the forefront, present in the possibilities of the more-than and the always new possibilities that might be just around the corner. The future is never fixed and always lives within the unexpected notyetness of each new encounter. In the constant processualism of practice, there is a need “to be willing to surprise yourself writing things you didn’t think you thought. Letting examples burgeon requires using inattention as a writing tool.” In these first processual steps there is a sensing of Haraway’s advice about “staying with the trouble.” She asks, “What must be cut and what must be tied if multispecies flourishing on earth, including human and other-than-human beings in kinship, are to have a chance?” Haraway indicates that within “the bonds of the Anthropocene and (the) Capitalocene” we live in worlds that are dominated by the ethics, values, and practices of neoliberalism. The ways of institutionally organizing economic, social, and cultural behaviors and practices constructed to support this involve highly individualized and forcibly individualizing forms of doing and making ways in the world that have become characterized predominantly by practices of self-making—what she calls “autopoiesis.” Autopoietic systems act as “self-producing autonomous units with self defined spatial and temporal boundaries that tend to be centrally controlled, homeostatic, and predictable.” Therefore, our inquiries, our ways of doing, and our ways of living in the world can also described, again through the use of Stewart’s term, as “worlding,” and need to be addressed through wholly different ways of being. The self-making, individualizing, and","PeriodicalId":170180,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Autoethnography","volume":"14 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-07-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127788507","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":"“And I dedicate this win to…”","authors":"K. Douglas","doi":"10.1525/JOAE.2021.2.3.334","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1525/JOAE.2021.2.3.334","url":null,"abstract":"Arthur Bochner 1 wrote that even though he’d written about grief, he never really understood it until the death of his father. I suspect many of us recognize a truth in what he said. Often unannounced, death creeps like an unwelcome stain into our lives. I wonder how many of us are ready for it, and what narrative scripts are available to us at these times as we try to make sense and bring meaning to our loss. In sport, the path that I trod for my first occupation, the pervasiveness of the performance narrative means that following the death of a parent, an athlete is expected to continue with their sport, regardless of their pain and grief. “The show,” or that competition you trained so hard for, so the story goes, “must go on.” Within high performance sport the grief and loss experienced by well-known athletes seems also to provide an additional newsworthy opportunity for reporters and journalists to spice up their copy with stories of how “I did it for Dad.” But is winning the only way to represent or honor this relationship? And what of those athletes who never win? How do they honor their dead? Over the past twenty years, I have often drawn on my own experiences in professional sport to challenge the dominant performance narrative that frames winning as the only accepted and valued goal of the athlete. In this performance autoethnography I hope to extend my previous work by turning the spotlight on some of the ways the performance narrative frames how athletes and media alike represent grief and loss and what the father–child relationship means. My aim and purpose in this work is to contribute to the creation of counterstories and alternative narrative maps. Through creating such resources it may provide some athletes whose lives and experiences are currently disenfranchised or silenced, and I include myself in this group, a way to negotiate this difficult terrain in ways that are more authentic. In Mark Freeman’s terms, I seek to “break away” from this powerful monologue and sap its “coercive power.” 2","PeriodicalId":170180,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Autoethnography","volume":"19 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-05-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122570512","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: Into the Sea, by Ash Watson","authors":"L. Reeves","doi":"10.1525/joae.2023.4.3.434","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1525/joae.2023.4.3.434","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":170180,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Autoethnography","volume":"68 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123100811","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":"Closer to Fine","authors":"Ginger Bihn-Coss","doi":"10.1525/joae.2023.4.3.359","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1525/joae.2023.4.3.359","url":null,"abstract":"Treatment for eating disorders often occurs in small, private counseling offices or isolated treatment centers, where clients’ voices remain inaccessible. Meanwhile, therapists, nutritionists, and doctors discuss “best practices” for treating those with eating disorders. In this article, the author provides a personal account of her struggle not only with anorexia nervosa but also with various treatments. Relying on journals kept for over ten years, the author utilizes poststructuralist, critical theory to argue that many therapies and medications used in the treatment of her anorexia were unhelpful. She then describes how a more thoughtful/participatory/egalitarian approach for helping those with eating issues, one that relies less on labeling and more on empowerment, was key to her “recovery.”","PeriodicalId":170180,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Autoethnography","volume":"4 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128489555","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":"Parent Advocacy for Transgender and Gender-Expansive Youth","authors":"Cortny Stark","doi":"10.1525/joae.2022.3.2.144","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1525/joae.2022.3.2.144","url":null,"abstract":"Transgender and gender-expansive youth face a multitude of challenges when presenting as their authentic selves. Navigating their families, schools, and communities can be harrowing. Parents play a crucial role in supporting these youth during their gender journey. As the parent of a gender-expansive child, I learned that supporting this population requires a willingness to advocate for change, as simply affirming my child’s identity was not enough to ensure her safety at school and in other environments. This analytic autoethnographic inquiry articulates my experience and personal and professional growth as a parent and advocate for transgender and gender-expansive youth. In alignment with analytic autoethnographic methodology, data include artifacts (i.e., images, field journal entries and personal notes, and other documents), and interview transcripts with persons who are part of my, and my daughter’s, journey. Per the autoethnographic tradition, the results of this study are shared in a storied format. The aim of this piece is to normalize the experience of families of transgender and gender-expansive youth and encourage caregivers and loved ones to pursue positive social change for this population.","PeriodicalId":170180,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Autoethnography","volume":"470 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134376744","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}