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Open Access Dissertation
Document Type
dissertation
Degree Name
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)
Degree Program
Communication
Year Degree Awarded
2018
Month Degree Awarded
February
First Advisor
Claudio Moreira
Second Advisor
Kimberlee Pérez
Third Advisor
Kysa Nygreen
Subject Categories
Critical and Cultural Studies | Film and Media Studies | Gender, Race, Sexuality, and Ethnicity in Communication
Abstract
This is a methodological dissertation written as a performance text within a performance paradigm. I use performance (auto)ethnography to turn the researchers’ gaze back on Western systems of knowledge creation. My approach is based on Diversi & Moreira’s (2009, 2016) betweener autoethnographies. While drawing on performance theory, I employ performance principally as my method (Spry, 2011). Within this performance paradigm, (auto)ethnography is a critically reflexive methodology that demands a commitment to embodiment in an ethical symbiosis with representation. This work is located at the intersection of the political, the performative and the pedagogical (Denzin, 2003a). From this center, I turn to examine my surroundings.
DOI
https://doi.org/10.7275/11202381.0
Recommended Citation
Sutton, Timothy M. L., "I Look to the Ground Beneath My Feet: An Insurgent Performance (Auto)ethnography" (2018). Doctoral Dissertations. 1184.
https://doi.org/10.7275/11202381.0
https://scholarworks.umass.edu/dissertations_2/1184
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