{"title":"Intrepid Ghosts and Writing Identities","authors":"Don Carter","doi":"10.1525/joae.2023.4.3.392","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1525/joae.2023.4.3.392","url":null,"abstract":"When I suffered a serious leg injury recently, an emerging feeling of bewilderment shook my self-perception, activating a downward slide in my self-identity and general confidence. My ability to convey the physical pain and attendant emotions was further undermined in my attempts to seek medical advice where I found myself increasingly positioned and disadvantaged by the discourses prevalent in these medical settings. Indeed, I was struggling to explain the physical and psychological manifestations to the health professionals. However, I found a degree of solace from my exploration of writing that centers on illness and injury, with a number of these investigations assisting me with my visits to health specialists, as I explain in this paper. As such, this paper utilizes autoethnography as testimony to chart aspects of my experiences in relation to the connections between discourse, identity, pain, and writing. In doing so, I describe a series of emotions and events related to this injury as a means for tracking changes in my autobiographical self during this period and providing unique insights into my experience.","PeriodicalId":170180,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Autoethnography","volume":"1 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":"125206774","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":"When “Even” Is Uneven","authors":"B. Keski̇n","doi":"10.1525/joae.2021.2.4.396","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1525/joae.2021.2.4.396","url":null,"abstract":"The main objective of this article is to provide a critical view, through autoethnographic inquiry, of one of the seemingly most innocent, popular, and “inclusive” public statements (and images) for welcoming/tolerating “outcasts.” More specifically, the article aims to demonstrate the marginalizing and power-assertive nature of seemingly “inclusive” statements. It points out how good intentions to be inclusive, when done carelessly, not only fail to lessen the distance between “us” and “them” but actually widen the gap between the two. Another objective of this article is to provide others who feel marginalized a way of thinking that might be helpful in dealing with such issues.","PeriodicalId":170180,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Autoethnography","volume":"62 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":"122519125","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":"Russia Remembered","authors":"G. Giorgio","doi":"10.1525/joae.2023.4.2.224","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1525/joae.2023.4.2.224","url":null,"abstract":"This autoethnography is about the author’s arranged marriage to a Jewish, Soviet scientist, a transaction meant to release him and his family from their home country at a time when leaving for Jews was nearly impossible. Arranged marriages offered possibility but brought subjective complexities over the ethical and even safety concerns to those involved. Drawing from the author’s journals, this story foregrounds subjective connection to these ethical concerns. While this story is the author’s (and Misha’s, a pseudonym), it captures the human story of finding humanity in those we disagree with, those we find difficult, those we want to reject, including maybe especially ourselves.","PeriodicalId":170180,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Autoethnography","volume":"90 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":"131288499","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":"Necessary Pains","authors":"Saghar L. Naghib","doi":"10.1525/joae.2022.3.4.576","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1525/joae.2022.3.4.576","url":null,"abstract":"The mind of a woman in labor is unparalleled in both strength and vulnerability. In this personal essay, I recount how I harnessed my memories about my mother and grief over her recent passing to cope with the isolation and pain of my labor and delivery on June 2, 2020—what became known as Blackout Tuesday—during the COVID-19 pandemic. As a first-time mother, being dropped off at the hospital while in pre-labor and walking through the double doors alone triggered the memories of entering the intensive care unit at the hospital where my mother died—the last time I had been in a hospital. It was a reminder that some spaces have room only for one. With my memory as my companion and labor support until my husband and I were permitted to be reunited hours after both testing negative for the virus, I navigate the meaning and purpose of pain as I push closer to giving life. This essay emerged during my first year of motherhood, out of my grapple with giving life while healing from my mother’s death, to gradually unveil my long-sought proverbial bend in the road.","PeriodicalId":170180,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Autoethnography","volume":"1 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":"127686821","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":"When School Is Home and Home Is Work","authors":"C. Saindon, Yea-Wen Chen","doi":"10.1525/joae.2022.3.2.169","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1525/joae.2022.3.2.169","url":null,"abstract":"This essay discloses the journey of two women as they become faculty-in-residence (FIR) at different institutions. Though far apart physically, the authors utilize a method of collaborative autoethnography to reflect on how their experiences marked boundaries, allowed for self-care, and supported residential education and community. Storied moments highlight issues of emotional labor, especially for female FIRs; out-of-class interactions with students; intricate balancing of being a faculty and a resident; and the challenges and advantages of “homing” on campus.","PeriodicalId":170180,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Autoethnography","volume":"101 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":"131899723","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":"“Use Their Dreams against Them”","authors":"Briana Markoff","doi":"10.1525/joae.2023.4.3.377","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1525/joae.2023.4.3.377","url":null,"abstract":"In this autoethnographic exploration of my time as a classroom teacher, I, a white former teacher at a public middle school that served mostly students of color, remember one student, and distill what our relationship taught me about student resistance to oppressive schooling conditions and systems. Reading my student’s actions through the lens of resistance theory, I come to understand, in retrospect, some of what my student was telling me about the conflicting desire, pain, trouble spots, and confusion1 of racial capitalist schooling as a young Black man. I reinterpret my student’s noncompliance as a strategy for maintaining his sense of self and of culture in an environment that threatened both. I use autoethnography as a method to learn what my student was teaching me, and consider how classroom teachers might learn from and be changed by the resistive actions of their marginalized students.","PeriodicalId":170180,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Autoethnography","volume":"31 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":"127781602","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":"(Auto)ethnography of Breastfeeding in Northern Ireland","authors":"M. Kempny","doi":"10.1525/joae.2021.2.4.405","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1525/joae.2021.2.4.405","url":null,"abstract":"This article takes an autoethnographic perspective to examine women’s experiences of breastfeeding in Northern Ireland (NI). It focuses on how social and cultural attitudes inform the practices of breastfeeding. The article draws on the feminist perspectives on breastfeeding that point to women’s agency and autonomy over their bodies. It explores how breastfeeding fits into the culture of risk society and attempts to minimize the risks associated with breastfeeding by health professionals in NI. The article then discusses the questions of breastfeeding in public and extended breastfeeding in social/cultural and religious context of NI, also raising the questions of ethnic backgrounds and social class as a factor contributing to mothers’ decisions whether to breastfeed or bottle-feed their babies. Finally, the author focuses on resistance to the hegemonic discourse encouraging formula feeding in NI society. The article analyses counternarratives to the dominant narratives of how to nurse children, pointing to mothers’ agency and a sense of empowerment.","PeriodicalId":170180,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Autoethnography","volume":"23 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":"117041203","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":"Losing the Tactile in Our Pandemic Moment","authors":"P. Gloviczki","doi":"10.1525/joae.2023.4.3.421","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1525/joae.2023.4.3.421","url":null,"abstract":"In this autoethnography, written mid-pandemic in 2021, I make sense of time, space, and place within the context of loss in our pandemic moment. I hope it encourages others to make sense of emotional landscapes in our changing times.","PeriodicalId":170180,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Autoethnography","volume":"8 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":"134315557","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":"Expecting in Unexpected Times","authors":"Alicia Smith-Tran","doi":"10.1525/joae.2022.3.4.561","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1525/joae.2022.3.4.561","url":null,"abstract":"This article explores the complexities and contingencies of pregnancy during the COVID-19 pandemic. The author uses autoethnography to describe the lived experience of navigating the conflicting feelings and nuances of daily life as an expectant person during a global health crisis. In particular, the author is attuned to how one must grapple with both the positive feelings of joy and excitement that accompany many pregnancies, with the more somber emotions of guilt and sadness from losing out on many of the anticipated normalcies of the pregnancy journey. This narrative highlights emergent themes that are likely relatable to many pregnant people at this particular moment in time due to framing experiences within a larger societal context and through a scholarly, sociological lens.","PeriodicalId":170180,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Autoethnography","volume":"18 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":"134504369","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":"No One Cites Obituaries","authors":"Kari A. Lerum","doi":"10.1525/joae.2023.4.2.255","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1525/joae.2023.4.2.255","url":null,"abstract":"This article is a critical autoethnography of connections between the author’s “writer’s block” and the deaths of her sister-in-law and father. The investigation includes journal entries, vignettes, and internal monologues; obituary excerpts; pandemic chronicles; and conceptual frameworks tied to heteronormativity, affect, shame, grief, and liminality. Inspired by Sara Ahmed’s work on how physical affect can “stick” one’s self to oppressive cultural mechanisms, the author links heteronormativity, shame, and grief to her writing, and names the process “sticky grief.” As both a process and a product, this critical autoethnography makes space for stigmatized scholarship and identity at the intersections of grief, shame, fear, love, and redemption.","PeriodicalId":170180,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Autoethnography","volume":"3 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":"133162163","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}
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