Suchergebnisse

A student at the author's college pens a racist column on immigration for the school newspaper. Two departments, including the author's, send campuswide e-mails denouncing the rhetoric. A firestorm erupts—as much over the e-mails as over the op-ed. Years later, the student visits the author unannounced.

Historical and personal snapshots of weddings become poetic stanzas that advocate for marriage equality and for a social safety net strong enough to protect the human rights and meet the human needs of everyone, regardless of relational—or any other—status.

This piece offers autoethnographic reflections on crossroads to which many academics come: whether to seek (or postpone or avoid) parenthood and when. The author deeply explores the personal (her own trajectories from daughter and sister to potential mother and from graduate student to full professor) to reflect on structural constraints associated with graduate education, the academic job market, and institutional policies and politics.

This poem uses the structure, aesthetics, and meanings of bridges to engage contemporary political and ethical challenges, including war and economic injustice.

This resistive poem calls for collective action to combat the encroachment of corporate values into academic life. Best served hot.

Introduction: Birthing the book / Kathryn Norsworthy, Lisa M. Tillmann, & Steven Schoen -- Sitting out "The star-spangled banner" / Lisa M. Tillmann, Kathryn Norsworthy, & Steven Schoen -- Of all days : critical pedagogy outside the classroom / Lisa M. Tillmann, Kathryn Norsworthy, & Steven Schoen -- Queer border crossings / Kathryn Norsworthy, Lisa M. Tillmann, & Steven Schoen -- Wind and winding roads : friendship amidst indefinite confinement / Lisa M. Tillmann, Jeffrey Holmgren, Kathryn Norsworthy, & Steven Schoen -- "Say it ain't so" : protecting a nondiscrimination policy from appropriated diversity / Steven Schoen, Lisa M. Tillmann, & Kathryn Norsworthy -- Conclusion: Mindful activists debrief mindful activism / Lisa M. Tillmann, Steven Schoen, & Kathryn Norsworthy.

Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of figures -- Acknowledgements -- List of contributors -- 1. Righting and writing (for) our lives: Turning inward when the world falls apart -- PART I: Foundations -- 2. Risk and reward in autoethnography: Revisiting "Chronicling an Academic Depression" -- 3. Coming home to narrative autoethnography: Encounters with Bochner and Ellis -- 4. Becoming wild: Autoethnography as feral pedagogy -- 5. A collaborative dialogue on the dialogic influence of Art Bochner and Carolyn Ellis -- 6. Traveling with Carolyn Ellis and Art Bochner, or how I became harmonized with the autoethnographic life: An autoformative story -- 7. Dear Art and Carolyn: A love story -- 8. Massaging the muse -- 9. Changing stories: A 20-year autoethnography -- 10. A rose by another name: Zen and the Art of Carolyn -- 11. Bochner and Ellis as teachers, mentors, and friends: Learning what it means to live a good life -- PART II: Futures -- 12. Traces and shards of self-injury: Strange accounting with "Author X" -- 13. Tangible autoethnography: Merging autoethnographic writing and artmaking -- 14. Searching for utopia in rural queer narratives -- 15. Kindred spirits: Narrative, art, life -- 16. Friendship, music, and living learning: The story of a song -- 17. Comedic autoethnography -- 18. Walking in Dallas with dead people -- 19. Forget my perfect offering: A mother daughter -- 20. Epilogue: Autoethnography as a warm idea -- Index.

"This book explores the substantive, field-defining and paradigm-changing work of Arthur Bochner and Carolyn Ellis. Scholars show through their writing and storytelling the influence of the work of Bochner and Ellis on both the field of autoethnography, and their individual research. Individually and collectively, Bochner's and Ellis' legacy extends beyond their home disciplines of communication and sociology, as well as beyond the boundaries of the United States. This collection highlights their contribution to the ethic, practice, and composition of autoethnography and narrative, both globally and on a deeply personal individual level"--