A Gunshot, Dying, and Living: Writing Into Activism. Issue 3 (November 2021)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Soler, Gabriel
• Other Names: de Andrade Marisa guest-editor.; Fang Nini guest-editor.; Murray Fiona guest-editor.; Rodríguez-Dorans Edgar guest-editor.; Stenhouse Rosie guest-editor.; Wyatt Jonathan guest-editor.
• Is Part Of: International review of qualitative research. Volume 14:Issue 3(2021)
• Page Start: 463
• Page End: 475
• Publication Date: 2021-11
• Subjects: Inquiry as activism -- Stories of dictatorship -- Transgenerational trauma -- Writing as inquiry -- Chilean politics; Qualitative research -- Periodicals; Social sciences -- Research -- Periodicals; Social justice -- Periodicals; Qualitative research; Social justice; Social sciences -- Research; Periodicals; Electronic journals; 001.42
• DOI: 10.1177/1940844720968177
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1940-8447

Abstract

In this article, I explore the idea of inquiry as activism through remembering the activism made by my aunt and uncle during the Chilean dictatorship (1973–1989). I try to understand how their story lives on in me and affects who I am and who I have become. I work with the idea of "the ghost, " as something missing that calls for a change, as something of the past that keeps asking for answers in the present. With the death of my uncle and the gunshot my aunt received, I try to think of how their "ghost" keeps doing activism when I am working on my own trauma.