Autoethnography as Decolonization, Decolonizing Autoethnography: Resisting to Build Our Homes. (February 2018)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Dutta, Mohan J.
• Other Names: Chawla Devika guest-editor.; Atay Ahmet guest-editor.
• Is Part Of: Cultural studies, critical methodologies. Volume 18:Number 1(2018)
• Page Start: 94
• Page End: 96
• Publication Date: 2018-02
• Subjects: decolonizing the academy -- pedagogy -- autoethnography -- ethnographies -- methodologies -- postcolonial methodologies; Culture -- Research -- Periodicals; Popular culture -- Research -- Periodicals; 306.05
• DOI: 10.1177/1532708617735637
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1532-7086

Abstract

In this conclusion essay, I weave together the different voices in this special issue to voice the role of autoethnography as a method for radicalizing knowledge production as decolonial academic-activist solidarities. Theorizing the body of the academic as the site for intervention into the authoritarian-neoliberal regimes of knowledge production, I imagine the ways in which the account of the personal disrupts the colonizing tropes that are reproduced by postcolonial cultural studies, offering home as a site for voicing resistance.