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- Title
(Dis)Embodied Disclosure in Higher Education: A Co-Constructed Narrative.
- Authors
Aubrecht, Katie; La Monica, Nancy
- Abstract
In this paper we use co-constructed autoethnographic methods to explore the tensions that animate the meaning of "disclosure" in university and college environments. Drawing insight from our embodied experiences as graduate students and university/college course instructors, our collaborative counternarratives examine the ordinary ways that disclosure is made meaningful and material as a relationship and a form of embodied labour. Our dialogue illustrates the layered nature of disclosure--for example, self-disclosing as a disabled student in order to access academic spaces but not self-disclosing to teach as an instructor. Katie uses phenomenological disability studies to analyze disclosure at the intersection of disability and pregnancy as body-mediated moments (Draper, 2002). Nancy uses Hochschild's (1983) notion of "emotional labour" to explore how socio-spatial processes of disclosure can be an embodied form of "extra work" (e.g., managing perceptions of stigmatized identities).
- Subjects
AUTOETHNOGRAPHY; HIGHER education; PHENOMENOLOGY; UNIVERSITIES &; colleges; ETHNOGRAPHIC analysis
- Publication
Canadian Journal of Higher Education, 2017, Vol 47, Issue 3, p1
- ISSN
0316-1218
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.7202/1043235ar