1st Edition

Betweener Autoethnographies A Path Towards Social Justice

By Marcelo Diversi, Claudio Moreira Copyright 2018
154 Pages 2 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

154 Pages 2 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

154 Pages 2 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

How do we persuade people that we all have common experiences and hopes? That we are ever more dependent on each other in times of globalization via technology, commerce, climate change, and overpopulation? How do we move from an "Us and Them" mentality to simply "Us"? In this book, a follow-up to their first book Betweener Talk , the authors share autoethnographies about being and doing... Read more
Introduction; Part I: Performing Social Justice; Chapter 1. Expanding the Circle of Us  Chapter 2. Locating Betweener Autoethnographies in Qualitative Inquiry; Part II: Betweener Autoethnographies; Chapter 3. Betweenness in Writing and Performativity  Chapter 4. Betweenness in Systemic Exclusion  Chapter 5. Betweenness in Decolonizing Inquiry; Part III: Contemporary Issues on Us versus Them; Chapter 6. Betweener Autoethnographies  Chapter 7. Traveling Identities  Chapter 8. Activism through Decolonizing Inquiry; References

Biography

Marcelo Diversi is Professor of Human Development at Washington State University Vancouver. His first book, Betweener Talk, also co-authored with Claudio Moreira, won the 2010 Best Book Award from the Ethnography Division of the National Communications Association. He has authored dozens of articles in leading qualitative inquiry journals and won several teaching awards along his career.

Claudio Moreira is Associate Professor of Performance Studies, Department of Communications at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. His first book, Betweener Talk, also co-authored with Marcelo Diversi, won the 2010 Best Book Award from the Ethnography Division of the National Communications Association. A specialist in performance autoethnography, he has more than two dozen articles published. In 2016, he won the Distinguished Teaching Award, the most prestigious and only student-oriented teaching award at the University of Massachusetts.

Diversi and Moreira’s work continues to illuminate the sociocultural complexities of our betweenness of being allowing us hope in troubling times through scholarships of light and love and social justice.

Tami Spry, Professor of Communication and Performance Studies, St. Cloud State University, author of Autoethnography and the Other: Unsettling Power Through Utopian Performatives