Journey of Errors: Finding Home in Academia

Atay, Ahmet

doi:10.1177/1532708617734009

Cited by 26 publications

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“…However, reflecting across my various “homes,” I wondered, why did I endure the pressure to “fit” into unrealistic expectations of trying to find an academic home that disempowered my voice? Rather, I am attempting to work in these spaces where I decolonize the methods to tell my stories (Atay, 2017) and empower my voice.…”

Section: Lewis Ellison—dismantling the Master’s House = Decolonizing My Narrativesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Multimodal Expressions of Self: Telling Ghost Stories as Intersectional African American and Latinx American Scholars

Ellison

Esposito

2021

Qualitative Inquiry

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Using autoethnography to critically analyze personal and cultural experiences, we use the notion of “home” metaphorically through (a) academia—of our traumatic experiences as African American and Latinx women seeking acceptance in academic institutions despite blatant inequities, discrimination, and racism; and (b) intergenerational family and ancestral narratives—of past/present experiences and stories of identities, homes, and borders. We craft transnational and intersectional autoethnographic narratives to illustrate how our perceptions of self as African American and Latinx American scholars have been shaped across research, politics, and digital spaces. We address perspectives of how our past and current institutional spaces created emotional and contested imbalances in our sense of self and in how we defend our work. In our representation of the quest for home with(in) academia, we employ the multimodal lenses of poetry, images, voices, and the theories of Gloria Anzaldúa and Audre Lorde to elicit how various expressions of storytelling extend our thinking about qualitative inquiry in today’s society in ways that help to challenge academic and institutional structures.

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Section: Lewis Ellison—dismantling the Master’s House = Decolonizing My Narrativesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Multimodal Expressions of Self: Telling Ghost Stories as Intersectional African American and Latinx American Scholars

Ellison

Esposito

2021

Qualitative Inquiry

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“…Some groups find this experience easier than others. A key change in recent decades, however, has not only been increasing demands on the institution to open up to new social groups, but growing success in forcing such claims to be heard (Atay, 2017). This was certainly true for women when they entered the academy in significant numbers in the twentieth century, but it has escalated in some important ways, shifting conversations from access to reform.…”

Section: Finding Placementioning

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Academic Emotions

Barclay

2021

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The University is an institution that disciplines the academic self. As such it produces both a particular emotional culture and, at times, the emotional suffering of those who find such disciplinary practices discomforting. Drawing on a rich array of writing about the modern academy by contemporary academics, this Element explores the emotional dynamics of the academy as a disciplining institution, the production of the academic self, and the role of emotion in negotiating power in the ivory tower. Using methodologies from the History of Emotion, it seeks to further our understanding of the relationship between the institution, emotion and the self.

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“…After years of such half-hearted and empty attempts to write, I desired to find an academic language that brought me closer to myself (Yoo, 2017). Atay (2018) discloses his desire to come into his own and to find “. .…”

Section: Learning To “See” With the Bodymentioning

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My Child and His Beautiful Body

Yoo

2019

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This article derives from the physical markers of “non-belonging” associated with my female and ethnic body, which are strong markers of deficit power levels in mainstream academic discourses. It discusses the sense of dis “ease” experienced by academics who feel coerced to adopt positivist and scientific rationalist approaches to knowledge at the expense of personal voice. It explores through an autoethnography of a mother’s gaze, how embodied modes of writing and inquiry can enable greater comfort in one’s own skin.

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Journey of Errors: Finding Home in Academia

Cited by 26 publications

References 10 publications

Multimodal Expressions of Self: Telling Ghost Stories as Intersectional African American and Latinx American Scholars

Multimodal Expressions of Self: Telling Ghost Stories as Intersectional African American and Latinx American Scholars

Academic Emotions

My Child and His Beautiful Body

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