{"title":"The Elephant in My Head","authors":"R. Roscoe","doi":"10.1525/joae.2024.5.1.56","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1525/joae.2024.5.1.56","url":null,"abstract":"This layered account uses personal experience to expand understanding of communicatively managing courtesy stigma, which remains a curiously understudied phenomenon in the communication discipline. Specifically, the author draws on courtesy stigma, closeting theory, stigma management communication, and communication privacy management to help interpret and make meaning out of experiences related to parental alcohol abuse. The vignettes provide an alternative understanding of stigma management and disclosure processes.","PeriodicalId":484440,"journal":{"name":"Journal of autoethnography","volume":"5 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139632841","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":"Queering Edgework","authors":"Jacob W. Richardson","doi":"10.1525/joae.2024.5.1.95","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1525/joae.2024.5.1.95","url":null,"abstract":"Drawing on evocative autoethnographic accounts of cruising for sex in public, this article examines the cruising subculture within gay culture as a voluntary risk-taking leisure activity and thereby a form of edgework. Moreover, this article seeks to push the theoretical conceptualization of edgework beyond the gendered interpretations associated with the theory by using queer theory to re-examine the order/chaos binary along the heterosexual/homosexual edge of sexual identity. By queering edgework, cruising becomes a voluntary risk-taking leisure activity that both shatters and reifies sexual identity along this heterosexual/homosexual edge.","PeriodicalId":484440,"journal":{"name":"Journal of autoethnography","volume":"16 10","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139539380","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 Present and Possible Futures of Autoethnography","authors":"Andrew F. Herrmann, Tony E. Adams","doi":"10.1525/joae.2024.5.1.1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1525/joae.2024.5.1.1","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":484440,"journal":{"name":"Journal of autoethnography","volume":"14 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139537237","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":"Living in a Material World","authors":"Robert C. Mizzi, Jordan Laidlaw","doi":"10.1525/joae.2024.5.1.21","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1525/joae.2024.5.1.21","url":null,"abstract":"This article explores the nuances of applying Actor-Network Theory (ANT) to autoethnography. The authors argue that ANT-informed autoethnography may broaden the understanding of how social and material networks are interrelated and can influence research. Two divergent autoethnographic vignettes are analyzed to illustrate how ANT-informed autoethnography may differ from other forms of autoethnography. ANT-informed autoethnography may be helpful when researchers wish to understand better the diverse political, social, and economic interactions and knowledge among actors and then offer insight into how these engagements affect our lifeworlds. The paper concludes with implications and recommendations for autoethnographers who utilize ANT in their research.","PeriodicalId":484440,"journal":{"name":"Journal of autoethnography","volume":"37 8","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139538787","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 Day I Got My Period at the Museum","authors":"Sakina Jangbar","doi":"10.1525/joae.2024.5.1.115","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1525/joae.2024.5.1.115","url":null,"abstract":"The author unexpectedly gets her period when she is visiting the Museum of the City of New York and uses the incident to explore how women’s desire to be free is thwarted when period products are not available in public restrooms. The author touches upon several aspects of menstrual equity—period stigma, outdated and empty dispensers, tampon tax, menstruating while homeless or incarcerated, and trans bodies that menstruate. Building on Judy Grahn’s idea that all culture is a result of women’s menstrual rites, the author points out the absurdity of not accommodating menstruating bodies in high-culture spaces like museums and asks for modern vending machines for period products in public restrooms.","PeriodicalId":484440,"journal":{"name":"Journal of autoethnography","volume":"134 7‐8","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139632586","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":"Religious Transitions of Faith","authors":"Josh Bird","doi":"10.1525/joae.2024.5.1.75","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1525/joae.2024.5.1.75","url":null,"abstract":"Navigating complicated relationships with his religious upbringing and his faith-zealous father, the author of this critical autoethnography explores experiences of identity loss and reformation, sexual abuse, and shame. Raised as a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints—also known as Mormonism—the author reflects on how his own crisis of faith, and the moments of silence where answers never came, influenced his views on meaningful relationships, self-worth, and sexuality. The author ends the piece by discussing how autoethnography not only gives individuals a chance to share their stories but also creates a community where they need not navigate trauma, loss, and heartache alone.","PeriodicalId":484440,"journal":{"name":"Journal of autoethnography","volume":"110 14","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139538427","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":"From Familiarity to Fragility","authors":"Joshua Garland","doi":"10.1525/joae.2024.5.1.122","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1525/joae.2024.5.1.122","url":null,"abstract":"Space, and embodied movement through it, produces place meanings and senses of belonging as individual and environment act upon each other. This co-constitution, however, remains changeable over time with each new or repeated experience. Following an autoethnographic walk around an Italian city, this article charts how passage through and between different parts of the city can evoke often consistent yet sometimes challenging understandings of place and one’s position within it. In so doing, six “zones” of belonging are identified, each accompanied by various thoughts, feelings, and memories as they are navigated on foot. The importance of passage through place in building a knowledge of both place and self is therefore highlighted. Facilitated by reflections upon visual materials collected during the walk, this knowledge and associated feelings are shown to be changeable across neighboring spaces. Moreover, such change is experienceable even within the same space over time as previously hidden yet nonetheless existing entities become visible to the individual for the first or successive times. This tension between absence and presence may thereby result in disruptive shocks and fragility that alter everyday place interactions and belongingness. This can include decisions around how once familiar spaces are subsequently navigated or subject to recollection on the basis of shifting knowledges and expectations that result.","PeriodicalId":484440,"journal":{"name":"Journal of autoethnography","volume":"223 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139636732","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}
Leandra Hinojosa Hernández, Sarah De Los Santos Upton
{"title":"Reproductive Justice and the Post-<i>Roe</i> Landscape","authors":"Leandra Hinojosa Hernández, Sarah De Los Santos Upton","doi":"10.1525/joae.2023.4.4.577","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1525/joae.2023.4.4.577","url":null,"abstract":"Research Article| October 01 2023 Reproductive Justice and the Post-Roe Landscape: Chicana Feminisms, Coraje, and Collective Solidarity Leandra Hinojosa Hernández, Leandra Hinojosa Hernández Leandra Hinojosa Hernández is an assistant professor of Communication at the University of Utah. email: leandra.hernandez@utah.edu Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Sarah De Los Santos Upton Sarah De Los Santos Upton Sarah De Los Santos Upton is an associate professor of Communication at University of Texas at El Paso. email: smupton@utep.edu Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar email: leandra.hernandez@utah.edu email: smupton@utep.edu Journal of Autoethnography (2023) 4 (4): 577–585. https://doi.org/10.1525/joae.2023.4.4.577 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Leandra Hinojosa Hernández, Sarah De Los Santos Upton; Reproductive Justice and the Post-Roe Landscape: Chicana Feminisms, Coraje, and Collective Solidarity. Journal of Autoethnography 1 October 2023; 4 (4): 577–585. doi: https://doi.org/10.1525/joae.2023.4.4.577 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All ContentJournal of Autoethnography Search On Friday, June 24, 2022, the official decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization was handed down, which led to the overturn of Roe v. Wade, ending the constitutional right to abortion that had been upheld since 1973. The overturn of Roe v. Wade set several trigger laws into effect across the United States, posed significant questions about the future of abortion rights, and resulted in protests both in favor of and against the ruling. As two Chicana feminist reproductive justice scholars, abortion access and reproductive justice are topics that have long been on our minds, even before we knew of the concepts and frameworks to describe them. Born and raised in Texas in Catholic families and educational systems, our cultural upbringing and intersecting queerness inspired our later activism for reproductive justice, which has resulted in our advocacy work with organizations such as the Utah Abortion Fund and... You do not currently have access to this content.","PeriodicalId":484440,"journal":{"name":"Journal of autoethnography","volume":"31 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":"135502567","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":"Remembering My Duniya","authors":"Anandam Kavoori","doi":"10.1525/joae.2023.4.4.489","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1525/joae.2023.4.4.489","url":null,"abstract":"This autoethnographic place-based essay explores the ecological space the author grew up in the desert state of Gujarat, in western India.1 Simultaneously, it is also an exploration of the inner journey of discovery, joy, and belonging that a child enacts in discovering the outdoors, his /her/their Duniya,2 or to put it more formally, comes into an environmental consciousness. The essay is a contribution to autoethnographic scholarship in the evocative tradition, focused on the role of memory.3 Written in nonlinear story segments, the narrative mirrors the ways in which memories surface—fragmented, disconnected, nebulous but also (on occasion) brilliantly clear and saturated with the sensorial world in which they originate. End notes identify key readings from the fields of autoethnography,4 cultural anthropology,5 memoir writing,6 narrative nonfiction,7 and environmental studies8 that influenced the form, scope and intent of the stories.","PeriodicalId":484440,"journal":{"name":"Journal of autoethnography","volume":"28 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":"135502571","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: <i>An Autoethnography of Fitting In: On Spinsterhood, Fatness, and Backpacker Tourism</i>, by Phiona Stanley","authors":"Brian Peterson","doi":"10.1525/joae.2023.4.4.597","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1525/joae.2023.4.4.597","url":null,"abstract":"Book Review| October 01 2023 Review: An Autoethnography of Fitting In: On Spinsterhood, Fatness, and Backpacker Tourism, by Phiona Stanley Phiona Stanley, An Autoethnography of Fitting In: On Spinsterhood, Fatness, and Backpacker Tourism. New York: Routledge, 2023. 238 pp. $52.95 (paperback, ISBN 9781032070988), $39.71 (eBook, ISBN 9781003205357) Brian Peterson Brian Peterson Kansas State University brianpeterson@ksu.edu Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar brianpeterson@ksu.edu Journal of Autoethnography (2023) 4 (4): 597–600. https://doi.org/10.1525/joae.2023.4.4.597 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Brian Peterson; Review: An Autoethnography of Fitting In: On Spinsterhood, Fatness, and Backpacker Tourism, by Phiona Stanley. Journal of Autoethnography 1 October 2023; 4 (4): 597–600. doi: https://doi.org/10.1525/joae.2023.4.4.597 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All ContentJournal of Autoethnography Search In An Autoethnography of Fitting In: On Spinsterhood, Fatness, and Backpacker Tourism, Phiona Stanley critically reflects on her international travels during her twenties and thirties in which she navigated social norms and expectations. From a young age, Stanley was bullied, and that resulted in her adopting coping mechanisms to live up to other people’s approval. However, these coping mechanisms did not withstand the test of time, and as she matured out of young adulthood these mechanisms caused more unhappiness than happiness. Stanley ultimately realized that although many people are more privileged because of easily fitting into social norms, her happiness is easier to achieve than conforming to other people’s approval. This story is a transformative journey through experiencing shame and coping with it, to excessive self-control, to exchanges for approval that compromised personal values, to finally accepting oneself as a constantly changing being who carries herself confidently from one... You do not currently have access to this content.","PeriodicalId":484440,"journal":{"name":"Journal of autoethnography","volume":"10 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":"135502804","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}