Betweener Autoethnographies : a Path Towards Social Justice
Series: Qualitative Inquiry and Social JusticePublisher: London : Taylor and Francis, 2018Edition: First editionDescription: 1 online resource ]ISBN:- 9780203711996
- 0203711998
- HM651
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Performing social justice -- Expanding the circle of us -- Locating betweener autoethnographies in qualitative inquiry -- Betweener autoethnographies -- Betweenness in writing and performativity -- Betweenness in systemic exclusion -- Betweenness in decolonizing inquiry -- Contemporary issues on us versus them -- Betweener autoethnographies -- Traveling identities -- Activism through decolonizing inquiry.
"How do we persuade people that we all have common experiences and hopes? That we are ever more dependent on each other in times of globalization via technology, commerce, climate change, and overpopulation? How do we move from an "Us and Them" mentality to simply "Us"?In this book, a follow-up to their first book Betweener Talk, the authors share autoethnographies about being and doing scholarship as betweeners searching for inclusivity. The authors have witnessed an escalation of division in their native Brazil and in the USA, as well as in South America more broadly and Europe places that had been making steady, albeit slow, progress toward greater inclusion. The book explores identity, interactions, existence, and possibilities in the spaces between "Us" and "Them" to help current and future generations imagine a more inclusive way of living as Us. It is about how two Third World scholars think the Postcolonial/Decolonizing discourse with a performance studies lens can further notions of inclusive social justice through scholarship borne out of lived oppression and the struggle for humanization. It is a union of two authors who, in their own words "have been close friends since our youth, both captivated by Paulo Freires notion of education and social transformation through a praxis of (conscientization), but who experienced life growing up at opposite ends of the social class spectrum. Early through love and later through theory, we have come to viscerally inhabit and embrace our betweener identities in scholarship and daily lives, breaking the distance between us and the paradigms that attempt to separate political, personal, and professional life."The authors hope is that their own and other betweener autoethnographies can contribute to the larger qualitative inquiry global movement and its central goal: marching together toward ever greater social justice."--Provided by publisher.