Caribbean Spaces

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carole Boyce Davies
Keyword(s):  
Personal Experience ◽  
The United States ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Gender And Sexuality ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Dynamic Complexity ◽  
Private Space ◽  
Caribbean Culture ◽  
Personal Experiences ◽  
Migratory Patterns

Drawing on both the author's personal experience and critical theory, this book illuminates the dynamic complexity of Caribbean culture and traces its migratory patterns throughout the Americas. Both a memoir and a scholarly study, the book explores the multivalent meanings of Caribbean space and community in a cross-cultural and transdisciplinary perspective. From the author's childhood in Trinidad and Tobago to life and work in communities and universities in Nigeria, Brazil, England, and the United States, the author portrays a rich and fluid set of personal experiences. The book reflects on these movements to understand the interrelated dynamics of race, gender, and sexuality embedded in Caribbean spaces, as well as many Caribbean people's traumatic and transformative stories of displacement, migration, exile, and sometimes return. Ultimately, the book re-establishes the connections between theory and practice, intellectual work and activism, and personal and private space.

scholarly journals My Dissertation Healed Me: A Retrospective Analysis Through Heuristic Inquiry

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Smita Kumar
Keyword(s):  
Retrospective Analysis ◽  
Partner Violence ◽  
Personal Experience ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Heuristic Inquiry ◽  
Strong Recommendation ◽  
Japanese Art ◽  
Personal Experiences ◽  
Similar Experience ◽  
Collection Phase

It was my personal experience of intimate partner violence (IPV) that motivated me to undertake my dissertation, but during the process I was haunted by my “IPV survivor” identity. Little did I know that my intellectual pursuit was an invitation into personal healing through heuristic inquiry. During the data collection phase of my dissertation, I unconsciously embarked on the initial engagement phase of heuristic inquiry, but only 2 years after completing my dissertation did I realize I experienced six phases of Moustakas’s (1990) heuristic inquiry. In this article, I share how my dissertation healed me through a retrospective analysis using heuristic inquiry. Through the coresearchers’ narratives, I began the process of embracing my IPV survivor identity—analogous to Kintsugi, the Japanese art of joining broken pottery with gold to form a new version of it. Through this process, I have begun to acknowledge my resiliency and, most importantly, feel empowered to engage with others who have had similar experience, connecting to a collective voice of IPV survivors. Thus, I argue that heuristic inquiry not only transforms the researcher but also has a powerful impact on others (Moustakas, 1990), empowering coresearchers and communities. I conclude with a strong recommendation to foster research of personal experiences, as it has the potential to bridge the gap between theory and practice (hooks, 1994).

Cross-Cultural Decision-Making in Healthcare

2018 ◽  
pp. 276-298
Author(s):  
Tomasz Komendziński ◽  
Emilia Mikołajewska ◽  
Dariusz Mikołajewski
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Decision Making ◽  
Intercultural Communication ◽  
Personal Experience ◽  
Healthcare Services ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Medical Practitioners ◽  
Common System ◽  
Personal Experiences

This chapter describes how people are connected to each other through a common system of encoding and decoding messages. Opening the European gate has made intercultural communication omnipresent, and this includes health care. Internationally-based tasks need new, culture-aware medical practitioners. The challenges, barriers, and solutions in the aforementioned area based on the personal experiences of the authors. The chapter concludes that in spite of personal experience, intercultural tension continues to be a major hinderance to patient healthcare services.

Cross-Cultural Decision-Making in Healthcare

2021 ◽  
pp. 1805-1827
Author(s):  
Tomasz Komendziński ◽  
Emilia Mikołajewska ◽  
Dariusz Mikołajewski
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Decision Making ◽  
Intercultural Communication ◽  
Personal Experience ◽  
Healthcare Services ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Medical Practitioners ◽  
Common System ◽  
Personal Experiences

This chapter describes how people are connected to each other through a common system of encoding and decoding messages. Opening the European gate has made intercultural communication omnipresent, and this includes health care. Internationally-based tasks need new, culture-aware medical practitioners. The challenges, barriers, and solutions in the aforementioned area based on the personal experiences of the authors. The chapter concludes that in spite of personal experience, intercultural tension continues to be a major hinderance to patient healthcare services.

Interviewing in Cross-Cultural Settings

2012 ◽  
Author(s):  
William Schneider
Keyword(s):  
Personal Experience ◽  
Cultural Context ◽  
Oral Tradition ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Recording Session ◽  
Personal Experiences ◽  
Primary Reference

The essence of this article is interviewing in cross-cultural settings. Cross-cultural interviews involve an interviewer and an interviewee who come from different backgrounds and have different experiences. They may not share common assumptions about meaning and both must work to establish understanding of what they mean by what they say. Usually, the person interviewing comes from a literate tradition and is conducting the interview to create a record that they or others will analyze and reference in their work. The person interviewed often is from a group whose primary reference is their oral tradition and narratives based on personal experience. In cross-cultural settings the interviewee or narrator is creating narrative from his or her oral tradition and personal experiences, while the interviewer is working to make a record for reference after the recording session. This article also discusses the ways of communicating in cross-cultural context. An analysis of cross-cultural interviews concludes this article.

“It’s like, ‘I’ve never met a lesbian before!’”

Pragmatics ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 24 (4) ◽  
pp. 799-818 ◽  
Author(s):  
Natasha Shrikant
Keyword(s):  
Personal Experience ◽  
Personal Narratives ◽  
Female Gender ◽  
Female Identity ◽  
Gender And Sexuality ◽  
Racially Diverse ◽  
Membership Categorization Analysis ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
Membership Categorization ◽  
Personal Experiences

This paper uses membership categorization analysis to illustrate how five women invoke multiple female gender and sexuality identity categories in personal narratives to construct the device of womanhood. The five racially diverse women include four self-identified lesbians and one heterosexual and range in age from mid-twenties to early forties. Analysis of their two hour audio recorded interaction illustrates that gender and sexuality cannot be understood as a binary difference between men and women. These women use revolutionary categories, defined on their own terms rather than by outsiders, to characterize women they encounter in their personal experience (lesbian and otherwise). The revolutionary categories exemplify a diversity of female gender and sexuality identities and ultimately challenge heteronormative conceptions of female identity while simultaneously constructing a lesbian counterpublic. Thus, the personal experiences of these women, as related through everyday narratives, turn out to be highly political.

Two Gambling Women

2012 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 39-49
Author(s):  
Tzu-Hui Chen
Keyword(s):  
Lived Experiences ◽  
Personal Experience ◽  
Cultural Context ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Immigrant Population ◽  
The Other ◽  
Mail Order ◽  
Foreign Brides ◽  
And Migration ◽  
The Relationship

This narrative aims to explore the meaning and lived experiences of marriage that a unique immigrant population—“foreign brides” in Taiwan—possesses. This convergence narrative illustrates the dynamics and complexity of mail-order marriage and women's perseverance in a cross-cultural context. The relationship between marriage, race, and migration is analyzed. This narrative is comprised of and intertwined by two story lines. One is the story of two “foreign brides” in Taiwan. The other is my story about my cross-cultural relationship. All the dialogues are generated by 25 interviews of “foreign brides” in Taiwan and my personal experience.

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