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ERIC Number: EJ1450088
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2024
Pages: 18
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ISSN: ISSN-0835-4944
EISSN: EISSN-1925-993X
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Locating Resilience in Art: An Autoethnographic Study
Melissa Granovsky
Canadian Journal for the Study of Adult Education, v36 n2 p15-32 2024
This autoethnography aims to explore how resilience supported me in navigating identity confusion after discovering my Métis heritage at 19, coinciding with meeting my father for the first time. The data sources I analyzed were reflective journal entries, photographs, a self-written letter, and three art pieces to track my progress. Informing this process were feminist theory and Indigenous research methodologies, ensuring it was approached from a decolonized and feminist perspective. My key finding was that resilience-building strategies must be intentional and ongoing to work effectively. In addition to personal resilience-raising capacities, a network of support, positive self-talk, self-love, critical reflection, and trauma-informed care were essential to sustain resilience through adversity. While short-term resilience can be maintained independently, sustaining resilience over the long term necessitates interdependence, collaboration, and structural changes at a broader, systemic level.
Mount Saint Vincent University. e-mail: cjsaerceea@gmail.com; Web site: https://cjsae.library.dal.ca/index.php/cjsae
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Evaluative
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Language: English
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