Family in/as Fieldwork: Challenges and Possibilities of Researching (With) One's Own Family

Session Submission Type: Paper Session

Abstract

Panelists consider how different life stages and family roles during these stages are negotiated when family members are an integral part of research. Papers perform and discuss ways in which the inclusion of our families in the research process affects critical feminist methodological orientations. We regard “family” broadly and more specifically, and discuss our methods in terms of ethics, relationality, and challenges to standards of qualitative inquiry, within structures of social inequality.

Sub Unit

• Feminist Scholarship

Chair

• Liliana Herakova, Western New England U

Individual Presentations

• My First Professors of Educación - Rebeca Burciaga, San Jose State U

• Employing Intimate Ethnography, Performance, and Dialogue to “Craft a Reckoning of the Past for Lessons About the Future” - Ellen Correa, University of Massachusetts Amherst

• Pedagogical Border Crossings: Testimonio y Reflexiones of a Mexicana Academic - Judith Flores Carmona, New Mexico State University

• Confronting a Mother’s Ambition: Tales From the Field - Fadia Hasan, University of Massachusetts Amhert

• Footnotes Poetry: Moving Family Into the Text - Liliana Herakova, Western New England U