The multidimensionality of everyday experiences of internationalisation using collaborative autoethnography (CAE): Narratives of belonging and crossing borders of two female sociologists
This paper elucidates approaches to collaborative autoethnography (CAE) drawing on two female academics' experiences, who live in Ireland. As Ellis et al., (2011) state, autoethnography 'seeks to describe and systematically analyse personal experience to understand cultural experience'...
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Serbian Sociological Association, Belgrade
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| description | This paper elucidates approaches to collaborative autoethnography (CAE) drawing on two female academics' experiences, who live in Ireland. As Ellis et al., (2011) state, autoethnography 'seeks to describe and systematically analyse personal experience to understand cultural experience'. We as two female sociologists, retrospectively and selectively analyse experiences with international academic life; borders, cultural norms, and identity. We refer to belonging to explore academic mobility within the contexts of our lives. We explore relationships between enabling/constraining factors contributing to our engagement with knowledge production and belonging to new academic environments outside our places of origin. Tanja's account documents her doctoral journey from Slovenia to Ireland, learning the host country's cultural fabrics to engage with academia, leaving and coming home, which did not mean returning to 'the known'. Lisa's narrative displays synergies to Tanja's illuminating emotions upon entering the UK in 2017, when antiimmigrant sentiment was heightened. However, her experiences of returning during COVID-19 disrupted her imaginaries of coming home. Written in a conversational style, we explore commonalities/differences in experiences of international academic careers. This paper illuminates CAE for opening conceptual avenues into multi-layered dimensions of academics' experiences, illuminating its significance for international Higher Education policy-making. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-e3150033f4c94120afcd15d4c206cddd2024-03-06T14:33:53ZengSerbian Sociological Association, BelgradeSociološki Pregled0085-63202560-48802023-01-015741040107310.5937/socpreg57-476300085-63202304040MThe multidimensionality of everyday experiences of internationalisation using collaborative autoethnography (CAE): Narratives of belonging and crossing borders of two female sociologistsMoran Lisa M.0Kovačič Tanja T.1Technological University of the Shannon, Shannon, IrelandUniversity of Galway, UNESCO Child and Family Research Centre, Galway, IrelandThis paper elucidates approaches to collaborative autoethnography (CAE) drawing on two female academics' experiences, who live in Ireland. As Ellis et al., (2011) state, autoethnography 'seeks to describe and systematically analyse personal experience to understand cultural experience'. We as two female sociologists, retrospectively and selectively analyse experiences with international academic life; borders, cultural norms, and identity. We refer to belonging to explore academic mobility within the contexts of our lives. We explore relationships between enabling/constraining factors contributing to our engagement with knowledge production and belonging to new academic environments outside our places of origin. Tanja's account documents her doctoral journey from Slovenia to Ireland, learning the host country's cultural fabrics to engage with academia, leaving and coming home, which did not mean returning to 'the known'. Lisa's narrative displays synergies to Tanja's illuminating emotions upon entering the UK in 2017, when antiimmigrant sentiment was heightened. However, her experiences of returning during COVID-19 disrupted her imaginaries of coming home. Written in a conversational style, we explore commonalities/differences in experiences of international academic careers. This paper illuminates CAE for opening conceptual avenues into multi-layered dimensions of academics' experiences, illuminating its significance for international Higher Education policy-making.https://scindeks-clanci.ceon.rs/data/pdf/0085-6320/2023/0085-63202304040M.pdfcollaborative autoethnographyinternationalisationbiographiesbordersbelongingpolicy-making |
| spellingShingle | Moran Lisa M. Kovačič Tanja T. The multidimensionality of everyday experiences of internationalisation using collaborative autoethnography (CAE): Narratives of belonging and crossing borders of two female sociologists Sociološki Pregled collaborative autoethnography internationalisation biographies borders belonging policy-making |
| title | The multidimensionality of everyday experiences of internationalisation using collaborative autoethnography (CAE): Narratives of belonging and crossing borders of two female sociologists |
| title_full | The multidimensionality of everyday experiences of internationalisation using collaborative autoethnography (CAE): Narratives of belonging and crossing borders of two female sociologists |
| title_fullStr | The multidimensionality of everyday experiences of internationalisation using collaborative autoethnography (CAE): Narratives of belonging and crossing borders of two female sociologists |
| title_full_unstemmed | The multidimensionality of everyday experiences of internationalisation using collaborative autoethnography (CAE): Narratives of belonging and crossing borders of two female sociologists |
| title_short | The multidimensionality of everyday experiences of internationalisation using collaborative autoethnography (CAE): Narratives of belonging and crossing borders of two female sociologists |
| title_sort | multidimensionality of everyday experiences of internationalisation using collaborative autoethnography cae narratives of belonging and crossing borders of two female sociologists |
| topic | collaborative autoethnography internationalisation biographies borders belonging policy-making |
| url | https://scindeks-clanci.ceon.rs/data/pdf/0085-6320/2023/0085-63202304040M.pdf |
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