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Publication Date: 2023-Jan
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Erased Bodies in the University Space: Autoethnography as a Form of Visibility
de Almeida, Daniel Manzoni; Paranhos, William Roslindo
Journal for Critical Education Policy Studies, v20 n3 p311-344 Jan 2023
It is commonplace to think that the university space is that of a docile body ideology for the reception of the diversity of bodies and that individuals who have been inserted and are maintained in this space are absent from symbolic violence. It is up to us to ask what are the mechanisms of this (in)visibilization perceived and experienced by us? Here we bring a study based on two autoethnographies of individuals who enter the university space and bring the memories of the collection of this symbolic violence in the attempt of intellectual performance in the world. Our autoethnographies were done separately and, later, read and discussed for analytical amplification. Thus, based on these two autoethnographies, we carried out the analysis that culminated in the reflection of three main axes: 1) experience and the impossibility of. The point that brings the reflection about our experience inside and in relation to the academic context and about the constant processes of (in)visibilization perceived and experienced by us; 2) Docile bodies, experiences, beings, and knowledge in which we reflect the violence of the university environments in an attempt to frame; and 3) For a democratic, critical, dissident and resistance education in which we seek the resumption of the idea of democratic educational possibilities as a starting point for the real autonomy of individuals. In conclusion, we believe that the university space, with its main framework in rationality, can benefit from our critique for an exercise of self-criticism about bodies in dissidence and production of knowledge.
Descriptors: Universities, Autobiographies, Ethnography, LGBTQ People, College Faculty, Teaching Experience, Self Concept, Phenomenology
Institute for Education Policy Studies. University of Northampton, School of Education, Boughton Green Road, Northampton, NN2 7AL, UK. Tel: +44-1273-270943; e-mail: ieps@ieps.org.uk; Web site: http://www.jceps.com
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Higher Education; Postsecondary Education
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Language: English
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