Autoethnography is a qualitative research method that allows the author to write in a highly personalized style, drawing on his or her experience to extend understanding about a specific issue. One subset of autoethnography, critical autoethnography, combines the narrative or storytelling aspect of autoethnography with critical theory approaches in...
Costume fandom is defined by intense affect for costumes and for the creative processes and material practices of designing, crafting, and displaying them. I differentiate costume fandom (emphasizing craft) from cosplay (emphasizing identity). I also highlight costume fandom's discourse about itself during the underexplored 1939–1984 period, includ...
This book discusses (auto- )ethnographies of accountability, undertaken (in close collaboration) by a multinational group of accounting and organization theory researchers over a period of three years. The key assumption underlying the book is that accountability is inherently an identity- creating process where the study of account- making has to ...
An autoethnographic study on the experience of a Midwest rural school counselor represents a personal and professional perspective on trauma, burnout, and posttraumatic growth. Content includes rural adversity, grief, and career progression. The research aimed to examine professional and private adversities to inform and improve the practice of pro...
Published in The Journal of medical humanities
This article is an investigation of neurodivergent reading practices. It is a collectively written paper where the focus is as much on an autoethnographic exploration of our autistic readings of autism/autistic fiction as it is on the read texts themselves. The reading experiences described come primarily from Yoon Ha Lee's Dragon Pearl (2019) and ...
Classism, sexism, and racism are structural elements of the violence suffered by racialized women around the world and every day more people are forced to move from one country to another, trying to find better living conditions. The objective of this work is to make visible the transit experiences of Haitian women who have left Chile for the Unite...
À l’heure où un « bon » chercheur (au sens officiel) doit passer une partie non négligeable de son temps à rédiger des dossiers de financement pour des projets collectifs (ANR, ERC, GDRI et autres savoureux acronymes), il n’est pas inintéressant de se souvenir de nos lectures les plus marquantes : de nombreux classiques de nos disciplines sont des ...
This autoethnographic narrative inquiry explores the lived experiences and identities of a transnational English language teacher (educator). The aim of this research was to gain insight into my own transnationality, in order both to better inform my beliefs and practices as an educator, and to highlight the value of exploring transnationality as a...
Notre proposition part d’une démarche implexe, c’est-à-dire prenant en compte les implications complexes situant l’auteur vis-à-vis de son objet, pour tenter d’apporter des éléments de compréhension à ce que nous percevons comme une ignorance mutuelle entre le travail social et l’écologie. Comment les travailleurs sociaux peuvent ils se situer face...
Female social work early career academics (ECAs) face many challenges within a neoliberal university context. The tension between balancing the social justice mission of the profession against the consumer model of higher education is conflicting and contributes to feelings of isolation and alienation. This article documents a group of female ECAs ...
