Heightened performative autoethnography : resisting oppressive spaces within paradigms / William M. Sughrua.

Format:

• Book

Author/Creator:

• Sughrua, William M., 1959- author.

Contributor:

• James Hosmer Penniman Book Fund.

Series:

• Higher ed ; v. 26.
• Higher ed: questions about the purpose(s) of colleges & universities, 1523-9551 ; vol. 26

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

• Education--Biographical methods.
• Ethnology--Authorship.
• Paradigms (Social sciences).

Physical Description:

xi, 239 pages ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Peter Lang Publishing, Inc., [2016]

Summary:

This book argues for - and carries out - what the author terms Heightened Performative Autoethnography (HPA). The common theme throughout the volume involves resisting oppressive and hegemonic spaces within paradigms, and hence seeking epistemological liberation. The text methodologically and conceptually situates this newly proposed variant of autoethnography, while contextualizing and justifying its "performed or enacted" theme involving resistance against the oppressiveness of paradigms. The book concludes with an analysis and commentary, demonstrating how this particular theme, and HPA as a research and writing repertoire, are able to meaningfully respond to the eighth moment of contemporary qualitative research, which calls for a critical and social justice agenda directed at empowerment, equity, liberation, and related issues. Heightened Performative Autoethnography could be used in upper-level undergraduate classes and graduate courses within the social sciences, humanities, and education, for courses on critical theory, contemporary research methodology, performative studies, narrative writing, and related subjects. Book jacket.

Contents:

• An overview
• On the road to heightened performative autoethnography: halfway there: from ethnography to narrative ethnography
• The last half of the trip: from autoethnography to heightened performative autoethnography
• Paradigm resistance leading to epistemological liberation
• The pretender: a challenge to academic writing
• Part one: West Town: an inquiry into space
• Part two: West Town: an inquiry into space
• The Las Vegas thesis
• Can I have a voice in the nation's classroom?
• Coda: to look ahead.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the James Hosmer Penniman Book Fund.

ISBN:

• 9781433132926
• 9781433132933
• 1433132931
• 1433132923

OCLC:

950934065

Publisher Number:

99968489716

Online:

The James Hosmer Penniman Book Fund Home Page