Heightened Performative Autoethnography: Resisting Oppressive Spaces within Paradigms

by William M. Sughrua

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781433132926
Publisher:	Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Publication date:	06/15/2016
Series:	Higher Ed: Questions about the Purpose(s) of Colleges and Universities , #26
Pages:	239
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.80(d)

About the Author

William M. Sughrua (PhD, Applied Linguistics, Canterbury Christ Church University at the University of Kent, United Kingdom) is Profesor-Investigador Titular at the Universidad Autónoma Benito Juárez de Oaxaca, Mexico. He has published numerous articles on topics such as alternative academic writing, critical pedagogy, and qualitative research methodology.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments vii

Foreword Norman K. Denzin ix

Part I Constructing the Stage for the Performance 1

Chapter 1 An Overview 3

Chapter 2 On the Road to Heightened Performative Autoethnography: Halfway There: From Ethnography to Narrative Ethnography 13

Chapter 3 The Last Half of the Trip: From Autoethnography to Heightened Performative Autoethnography 29

Chapter 4 Paradigm Resistance Leading to Epistemological Liberation 59

Part II The Performance 73

Chapter 5 The Pretender: A Challenge to Academic Writing 75

Chapter 6 Part One: West Town: An Inquiry into Space 103

Chapter 7 Part Two: West Town: An Inquiry into Space 127

Chapter 8 The Las Vegas Thesis 151

Chapter 9 Can I Have a Voice in the Nation's Classroom? 181

Part III Bidding Farewell from the Stage 207

Chapter 10 Coda: To Look Ahead 209

References 213

Index 229

Editorial Reviews

«An inventive, well-researched text about auteothnography and performance, capitalism and post/colonialism, activism and revolution. I especially appreciate Sughrua’s discussion of paradigmatic resistance, epistemological liberation, and social justice.» (Tony E. Adams, Northeastern Illinois University)

«An inventive, well-researched text about auteothnography and performance, capitalism and post/colonialism, activism and revolution. I especially appreciate Sughrua’s discussion of paradigmatic resistance, epistemological liberation, and social justice.» (Tony E. Adams, Northeastern Illinois University)

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