Innovative and Marginalized Methodologies for Hidden Neoliberalism in the Student Affairs Profession

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Abstract

This interdisciplinary, philosophical autoethnographic paper is situated at the intersection of qualitative methodology, and neoliberal higher education student affairs. It explores how critical and post/qualitative versions of pragmatism merge with autoethnography to bring about visibility for innovative and marginalized methods that are unfamiliar in much of student affairs research and practice. Simultaneously, higher education student affairs is only now beginning to trouble oppressive neoliberal norms. Innovative and marginalized methodologies, while not new, have the power to disrupt and reveal neoliberalism in student affairs, and at the same time, deploying methods that are unfamiliar in student affairs gives marginalized and innovate methods visibility and credibility for advancing just renewal in higher education/student affairs research and practice.

Author

• Rachel Keener Killam, University of South Florida