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The traveling researchers’ sisterhood: Four female voices from Latin America in a collaborative autoethnography

Zapata-Sep�lveda, Pamela; Stanley, Phiona; Ram�rez-Pereira, Mirliana; Espinoza-Lobos, Michelle

Authors

Pamela Zapata-Sep�lveda

Mirliana Ram�rez-Pereira

Michelle Espinoza-Lobos



Contributors

Robert E. Rinehart
Editor

Kerry Earl
Editor

Abstract

Purpose
The purpose of this paper is to present a collaborative (auto)ethnography that has emerged from the meeting of four academic researchers working with and from the heart in various Latin American contexts.
Design/methodology/approach
Our “I’s” have mingled with our very varied participations in different themes, latitudes, and disciplines – health, education and psychosocial approaches. We have worked, variously, in both English and Spanish. At the core of this piece are our own biographies, motivations, senses, academic dreams, international contexts, and the injustices and suffering felt in our bodies.
Findings
We seek to reflect from our experience of traveling as young researchers and as women with Latin souls. Through our stories, we show how crossing cultures as part of our research and work gives us both a privileged position but also the constant stress and questioning that goes beyond the intellectual and appears in our embodied experiences of interculturality.
Research limitations/implications
The limitation of this piece of research is that it is based on personal experiences, that although there may be people who feel identified with these experiences, these are not generalizable or transferable.
Practical implications
Performative autoethnography is an instance to understand the world like a crisol with different faces; self, social, cultural and methodology, which allows us to understand the world from a holistic perspective.
Social implications
With this paper, we hope to contribute for other women in academia to see themselves reflected in the experience of moving through a globalized world.
Originality/value
Through both living in and reflecting on this process, we show how our experiences provide us with new, intercultural “worlds under construction.”

Citation

Zapata-Sepúlveda, P., Stanley, P., Ramírez-Pereira, M., & Espinoza-Lobos, M. (2016). The traveling researchers’ sisterhood: Four female voices from Latin America in a collaborative autoethnography. Qualitative Research Journal, 16(3), 251-262. https://doi.org/10.1108/qrj-07-2015-0062

Journal Article Type Article
Acceptance Date Mar 12, 2016
Publication Date Aug 8, 2016
Deposit Date Feb 15, 2019
Publicly Available Date Feb 20, 2019
Journal Qualitative Research Journal
Print ISSN 1443-9883
Publisher RMIT Publishing
Peer Reviewed Peer Reviewed
Volume 16
Issue 3
Pages 251-262
DOI https://doi.org/10.1108/qrj-07-2015-0062
Keywords Ethnography, Crossing borders, Data on the self, Performative writing, Senses
Public URL http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/Output/1556837
Contract Date Feb 20, 2019

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