Deaf identity, motherhood and transforming normalcy : an ethnographic challenge to disability studies' treatment of personal experience narratives

2008 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tahna B. Henson
Keyword(s):  
Disability Studies ◽  
Personal Experience ◽  
Deaf Identity ◽  
Personal Experience Narratives

scholarly journals Gringo/a as Sociolinguistic Fractal

Ethnologies ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 35 (1) ◽  
pp. 3-27 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephanie C. Kane ◽  
Harriet E. Manelis Klein
Keyword(s):  
Latin America ◽  
Cultural Identity ◽  
Personal Experience ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Professional Goals ◽  
Fractal Character ◽  
Personal Experience Narratives ◽  
Socially Situated

The polysemic term “gringo” inevitably mediates the negotiation of cultural identity for anthropologists carrying out fieldwork in Latin America. Drawing on experiences from the authors’ interactions in pursuit of professional goals, this analysis shows how nation, religion, gender, race, and the histories of colonization, migration, and alliance emerge and recede in kaleidoscopic encounters between hemispheric stereotypes and cross-cultural travelers. The intertwined personal experience narratives of ‘gringo-hood’ we present reveal the fractal character of knowledge and experience. This article, therefore, shows how linguistic, cultural, and especially folkloric interactions mediate the various dimensions of our socially situated experiences and the different forms of talk we encountered.

Evidence of a Tense Shift in Personal Experience Narratives

1986 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 151-162 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alynn Day Harvey
Keyword(s):  
Artificial Intelligence ◽  
Potential Application ◽  
Personal Experience ◽  
Present Tense ◽  
Personal Experience Narratives

“Danger of death” narratives were collected and analyzed for their use of the historical present tense. The historical present tense in these narratives serves as a signal which fingerprints their identity as “danger of death” narratives and, thus, has a potential application in artificial intelligence programs.

scholarly journals Reflexivity in Research: Disability between the Lines

2013 ◽  
Vol 33 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Jen Rinaldi
Keyword(s):  
Disability Studies ◽  
Personal Experience ◽  
Standpoint Theory ◽  
Feminist Scholarship ◽  
Invisible Disability ◽  
Historical Developments ◽  
Disability Research

<p>The purpose of this article is to consider the implications to reflexivity in disability research. The author begins by positioning herself in the field of disability studies, disclosing her own experiences. She goes on to trouble the expectation to disclose. The call to confess may be grounded in historical developments within feminist scholarship, including standpoint theory and research reflexivity&mdash;methodological tools that are certainly valuable in the pursuit of knowledge, but that are not without criticism. The author explores some key critiques, and considers the implications, specifically regarding her own responsibility to give account. She demonstrates that the sharing of personal experience and the disclosure of identity is not only difficult, uncomfortable, and invasive, but is sometimes useless, for even our confessions may be subject to thematic interpretation.</p><p>Keywords:&nbsp;disclosure, standpoint theory, reflexivity, narrative, invisible disability</p>

scholarly journals Toivo paranemisesta: nuoren naisen päihdetarinan rakentuminen haastattelussa

Elore ◽  
2007 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Taina Ukkonen
Keyword(s):  
Personal Experience ◽  
Life Story ◽  
Life Story Interview ◽  
Personal Experience Narratives ◽  
Professional Treatment ◽  
Social Scientific ◽  
Institutional Model ◽  
Drug Problems ◽  
Opioid Users ◽  
Complete Abstinence

This article focuses on personal experience narration about drug abuse and treatment. The material was elicited from a life-story interview with a young woman called Hannele, who was in substitution treatment meant for opioid users. The approach is material-based: the author has constructed Hannele’s ”drug-story” and compared it with the institutional model narrative about recovery from drug problems. Hereby the author has been influenced by the folkloristic study of personal experience narratives and social scientific research on narratives. The model narrative is commonly known in treatment systems, and it tells us how it is possible to cope with drug problems and return to normal life. The hero of the story is a humble recipient of help and professional treatment, who aims to change his or her lifestyle completely and become fully abstinent. Hannele’s story describes how she started using cannabis, then amphetamine and heroine and how she stopped using them without any professional help. Then the story continues with buprenorphine (Subutex) use, which caused problems and made her apply for treatment. Hannele as the hero of the story is a self-motivated and even obstinate client who defines her treatment goals independently. Her story is a so-called ”short-step story” challenging the traditional model story and its requirement for complete abstinence and a comprehensive change of lifestyle and identity.

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