i have begun working with doctoral student and collaborator, ellen, on her dissertation proposal. since she’s using ethnoautobiography as her methodology it makes sense, right? but even better is the way we are already influencing and inspiring each other. so yesterday we laughed about ethnoautobiographical equations. we agreed that the had to involve the “almost equal to” symbol ≈.
A couple of examples:
When discussing a literature review, I feel that what we do is honor and acknowledge the connections and relationships with other stories (told, written, published, etc.) thus becoming…
literature review ≈ connections with stories
Ellen described her sense of EA as a way to narrate her self as she reconnects with spirit, bodies of work, embodied knowing, and so on. I agreed and thus stated…
narrating our selves + re/connection ≈ EA
The manner in which we narrate ourselves is not only always changing, the manner in which we do this then also changes our sense of our selves. And equally (pun intended!) central to EA is the process of re/connection with any number of things dissociated or alienated from by force, choice, subconscious distance (among other factors & combinations!). Indeed, re/connection implies decolonization, thus…
reconnection ≈ decolonization
Thanks ellen! Be sure to visit ethnoautobiography.net for more info about ethnoautobiographical research ideas, potentials and practices.