Znaczące życie akademickie: zaimprowizowane, zabawne, zdestabilizowane

In this essay, originally presented to an audience of colleagues, students, and university faculty, I briefly review the meanings I ascribe to my experience of nearly half a century as a university faculty member. I emphasize the improvisational quality of professorial life, the amusing characters I was able to observe and with whom I often worked, and several unsettling and agitating dimensions of university life that I experienced along the way. Inspired by the challenge of educating the whole person, mind and heart, and passionate about the moral, emotional, and literary urgency of the human sciences, I plan to continue to focus on self-clarifying, evocative, and potentially transforming stories.  Prezentowany esej, w którym Profesor Arthur Bochner dokonał krótkiego przeglądu znaczeń nadawanych trwającemu prawie pół wieku doświadczeniu pracy na uczelni, został zaprezentowany audytorium złożonemu z koleżanek i kolegów, studentów oraz naukowców z uniwersytetu. Podkreślono w nim improwizację obecną w akademickim życiu zawodowym, przywołano anegdoty o ważnych postaciach, które Profesor miał okazję obserwować i z którymi często pracował. Wskazano również na często destabilizujące, a prawie zawsze poruszające wymiary życia uniwersyteckiego, których doświadczył, krocząc po uniwersyteckiej drodze. Zainspirowany przez wyzwania stojące przed całościową edukacją osoby, umysłu i serca, jak również pełen pasji w odniesieniu do etycznych, emocjonalnych i literackich potrzeb nauk humanistycznych, Profesor przedstawia plan dalszych badań nad samowyjaśniającymi, ewokacyjnymi i potencjalnie transformującymi opowieściami. &nbsp

Autoethnography: an overview

"Autoethnography is an approach to research and writing that seeks to describe and systematically analyze personal experience in order to understand cultural experience. This approach challenges canonical ways of doing research and representing others and treats research as a political, socially-just and socially-conscious act. A researcher uses tenets of autobiography and ethnography to do and write autoethnography. Thus, as a method, autoethnography is both process and product." (author's abstract

AUTOETNOGRAFÍA: UN PANORAMA

Autoethnography is an approach to research and writing that seeks to describe and systematically analyze personal experience in order to understand cultural experience. This approach challenges canonical ways of doing research and representing others and treats research as a political, socially-just and socially-conscious act. A researcher uses tenets of autobiography and ethnography to do and write autoethnography. Thus, as a method, autoethnography is both process and product.La autoetnografía es un enfoque de investigación y escritura que busca describir y analizar sistemáticamente la experiencia personal con el fin de comprender la experiencia cultural. Esta aproximación desafía las formas canónicas de hacer investigación y de representar a los otros, a la vez que considera a la investigación como un acto político, socialmente justo y socialmente consciente. Para hacer y escribir autoetnografía, el investigador aplica los principios de la autobiografía y de la etnografía. Así, como método, la autoetnografía es, a la vez, proceso y producto

Governance and Susceptibility in Conflict Resolution: Possibilities Beyond Control

Governmentality analysis offers a nuanced critique of informal Western conflict resolution by arguing that recently emerged alternatives to adversarial court processes both govern subjects and help to constitute rather than challenge formal regulation. However, this analysis neglects possibilities for transforming governance from within conflict resolution that are suggested by Foucault's contention that there are no relations of power without resistances. To explore this lacuna, I theorise and explore the affective and interpersonal nature of governance in mediation through autoethnographic reflection upon mediation practice, and Levina's insights about the relatedness of selves. The paper argues that two qualitatively different mediator capacities - technical ability and susceptibility - operate in concert to effect liberal governance. Occasionally though, difficulties and failures in mediation practice bring these capacities into tension and reveal the limits of governance. By considering these limits in mediation with Aboriginal Australian people, I argue that the susceptibility of mediator selves contains prospects for mitigating and transforming the very operations of power occurring through conflict resolution. This suggests options for expanded critical thinking about power relations operating through informal processes, and for cultivating a susceptible sensibility to mitigate liberal governance and more ethically respond to difference through conflict resolution

A Multivariate Investigation of Machiavellianism and Task Structure in Four‐Man Groups

This research study was addressed to the question of how group composition, based upon Machiavellian characteristics and under conditions of structured and unstructured task assignments, would affect the dispersion of group communication and reactions. The data suggested that both Machiavellianism and task structure significantly influence group communication, but that they are not dependent upon one another. Reasons for these findings and the applications to group communication theory are discussed

The Effects of Social Status and Social Dialect on Listener Responses

The findings of this experimental study indicate that the response to the dialect speech of another is not unidimensional and that dialect is more likely a determinant of speaker ethos for middle social status persons than for high or low social status persons

The Making of Coming to Narrative : Blended Genres in the Human Sciences

This session will focus on narrative inquiry as a blended genre of storytelling in the human sciences. What are the advantages and disadvantages of blurring distinctions between arts and sciences? What is the difference between understanding yourself as a writer and understanding yourself as a researcher? I will review how I used writing as inquiry in composing Coming to Narrative, a book that received national and international best book awards. We will discuss together the challenges for the next generation of writers of qualitative inquiry. This will include qualitative inquiry as a conversational dynamic; the place of imagination in qualitative writing; forms for expressing and representing emotional truths; ethics of relational storytelling; the qualitative storyteller as an artist and qualitative inquiry as a moral art and science

Conference Report: Ethnography for the Twenty-First Century: Alternatives and Opportunities

URN: urn:nbn:de:0114-fqs000241