Glossolalalararium Pandemiconium: A Meaningfully Irreverent, Queerelously Autoethnographic Essamblage for Trying Times. (September 2021)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Murray, Peta
• Other Names: Harris Times Annette MarkhamDan guest-editor.; Luka Mary Elizabeth (M.E.) guest-editor.
• Is Part Of: Qualitative inquiry. Volume 27:Number 7(2021)
• Page Start: 806
• Page End: 811
• Publication Date: 2021-09
• Subjects: queering -- queering autoethnography -- essay -- bricolage -- neologism -- COVID-19 -- practice-led research -- arts-based research -- autoethnographic methodologies -- massive and micro -- prepositional thinking -- meaningful irreverence; Social sciences -- Methodology -- Periodicals; Social sciences -- Research -- Periodicals; 300.72
• DOI: 10.1177/1077800420960144
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1077-8004

Abstract

If there is any throughline to COVID-19, it lies within a narrative of capriciousness. To explore the paradox of the pandemic as proliferation meets obliteration, I alternate randomization with redaction within a riotous essamblage combining essayistic principles of "prepositional thinking" with bricolage. Neologisms meet textracts of responses to the 21 prompts of the Massive and Micro experiment. Glossolalalararium Pandemiconium comes with a helping of "lala" in a froth of babble, doubt, rage, and whimsy. It is a textual grappling with the shock and awe of the everyday, girded by a notion of "meaningful irreverence" that underpins my current research.