Buds Bloom in a Second Spring: Storying the Male Voices Project. (January 2016)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Tracy, Sarah J.
• Other Names: de la Garza Sarah Amira guest-editor.
• Is Part Of: Qualitative inquiry. Volume 22:Number 1(2016)
• Page Start: 17
• Page End: 24
• Publication Date: 2016-01
• Subjects: autoethnography -- transformation -- ethnography -- narrative -- writing as method of inquiry; Social sciences -- Methodology -- Periodicals; Social sciences -- Research -- Periodicals; 300.72
• DOI: 10.1177/1077800415603397
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1077-8004

Abstract

This essay chronicles a tale of personal and academic transformation triggered by the rich mentoring spirit of Bud Goodall. Bud encouraged me discover how a research project on male executives and work-life balance was intricately intertwined with my familial and personal experiences. The essay describes a "Second Spring"—a period of reawakening after the full cycle of ethnographic seasons in which researchers identify blind spots in their scholarship and ways of being. In this Second Spring, I find myself transforming my commitments to gender equity from a place of evidence collection and self-righteous upset to a place of dialogic conversation and choice.