Moreira, ClaudioPérez, KimberleeNygreen, KysaSutton, Timothy M. L.2024-04-262024-04-262018-022018-0210.7275/11202381.0https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14394/17375This 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.Perfromance (Auto)ethnographyQualitative InquiryDecolonizing MethodologySpritual ActivismWestern genreCritical Cultural StudiesCritical and Cultural StudiesFilm and Media StudiesGender, Race, Sexuality, and Ethnicity in CommunicationDissertation (Open Access)