Difficult Dialogues in Uncertain Times: Creating Duoethnographic Spaces and Taking Responsibility as Scholar-Educators

Session Type: Symposium

Abstract

This session presents a space for scholar-educators to share their critical dialogues using the unique qualitative method of duoethnography. Duoethnography offers a “third space” of dialogical storytelling in which one or more authors share their lives as a curriculum to gain deeper insights and new perspectives. Through duoethnographic third space, authors’ embodied knowledges provide insight into the “manifestations of hate” and of love that define our times.

Duoethnography will be presented as a purposeful method to hold the difficult conversations we must have across differences, disciplines, and places of learning, so that we as scholars and educators can collaboratively take responsibility, build solidarity, and mobilize against the beliefs, processes and systems of power and privilege that sustain uncertainty and inequity.

Sub Unit

• SIG-Critical Examination of Race, Ethnicity, Class, and Gender in Education

Chair

• Dr. Willow Samara Allen, University of Victoria

Papers

• How Can We Dialogue With the World Without Having a Critical Dialogue With Ourselves First? - Momina Khan, University of Saskatchewan

• Self and Others in Beloved Community: Toward Living With Dissonant Harmony - Stacey Bliss, University of Regina; Teresa Anne Fowler, Concordia University of Edmonton

• Coastal Reflections: A Plática on Embodied Knowledge and Schooling Wounds - Andrea Nikté Juarez Mendoza, The Graduate Center - CUNY

• Wholeness Is No Trifling Matter: Engaging Duoethnography to Cultivate Love and Flight in Divided Landscapes - Candace Marie Thompson, University of North Carolina - Wilmington; Sheri Carmel Hardee, University of North Georgia

• Uncovering and (Re)Imagining Ideologies Surrounding Corporeal Inscriptions of Two PhD Students - Chris Borduas, University of Calgary- Werklund School of Education