Full Description
Wayfinding and Critical Autoethnography is the first critical autoethnography compilation from the global south, bringing together indigenous, non-indigenous, Pasifika, and other diverse voices which expand established understandings of autoethnography as a critical, creative methodology. The book centres around the traditional practice of 'wayfinding' as a Pacific indigenous way of being and knowing, and this volume manifests traditional knowledges, genealogies, and intercultural activist voices through critical autoethnography.
The chapters in the collection reflect critical autoethnographic journeys that explore key issues such as space/place belonging, decolonizing the academy, institutional racism, neoliberalism, gender inequity, activism, and education reform. This book will be a valuable teaching and research resource for researchers and students in a wide range of disciplines and contexts. For those interested in expanding their cultural, personal, and scholarly knowledge of the global south, this volume foregrounds the vast array of traditional knowledges and the ways in which they are changing academic spaces and knowledge creation through braiding old and new.
This volume is unique and timely in its ability to highlight the ways in which indigenous and allied voices from the diverse global south demonstrate the ways in which the onto-epistemologies of diverse cultures, and the work of critical autoethnography, function as parallel, and mutually informing, projects.
Contents
Preface: Stars and stones in Aotearoa. Introduction: Critical Autoethnography and/as Wayfinding in the Global South. Section 1: Wayfaring and wayfinding indigeneity in the academy. Chapter 1: Wayfinding as Pasifika, Indigenous and critical autoethnographic knowledge. Chapter 2: Wayfinding Kurahuna. Chapter 3: Wayfinding with aiga (family) - Aiga saili manuia: Family in (re)search of peace. Chapter 4: Wayfinding and decolonising time: Talanoa, activism, and critical autoethnography. Chapter 5: Critical autoethnographic encounters in the moana: Wayfinding the intersections of to'utangata Tonga and indigenous masculinities. Section 2: Wayfinding and way-fairness in the digital age. Chapter 6: The crooked room: Intersectional tap dancing, academic performing, and negotiating black, woman, immigrant. Chapter 7: The neighbourhood(s) inside me: Telling stories of (un)belonging, (im)mobility, temporality and places. Chapter 8: Oceania resistance: Digital autoethnography in the Marianas Archipelago. Chapter 9: Uncovering a performative black feminist wayfinding. Section 3: Wayfinding in the liminal spaces. Chapter 10: Almost always clouds: stitching a map of belonging. Chapter 11: The North Star & the Southern Cross, Chapter 12: Retracing the footprints of a family of teacher wayfinders Chapter 13: Poet tree: A poetic exploration of an immigrant's journey.
