#Plugging Into Hope. (September 2021)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Fitzpatrick, Esther
• 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: 790
• Page End: 797
• Publication Date: 2021-09
• Subjects: plugging in -- hope -- art-making -- interconnected -- ontology; Social sciences -- Methodology -- Periodicals; Social sciences -- Research -- Periodicals; 300.72
• DOI: 10.1177/1077800420960186
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1077-8004

Abstract

This is a critical autoethnography of my "plugging into hope" through engagement with the Massive_Micro project as I was, literally and simultaneously, plugging into my computer during the COVID-19 pandemic isolation. In this article, I demonstrate the art of #plugging into hope. Through drawing on a range of visual, poetic, and narrative data generated throughout this project, I write my story, creating an assemblage of plugging in moments with human and non-human. Adding to an ongoing conversation with art-making, writing, and my scholarly ghosts. Highlighting the significance of deliberately plugging into embodied intra-action with our world/s—connecting to hope.