CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2021
| Author | Pais Fornari, Natalia |
|---|---|
| Title | Walking /in/between Worlds: A feminist autoethnography |
| Summary | This autoethnographic research is based on my herstory as a female body in mobility for two and a half years (Sep-18 – Mar21). It uses walking as an autoethnographic tool for the telling of this multi-sited herstory and delves into the embodied and symbolic representations, practices and experiences of this act as a scholarly praxis and site for feminist knowledge production. It finds an echo in the overlapping fields of Postcolonial Studies and Feminist Postcolonial Studies, as well as the mobilities paradigm, in an interplay between its possibilities both as a method of inquiry per se and a way of feminist knowing. As a creative endeavour, its methodology blends lyric inquiry, self-reflexivity and the embodied practice of walking alongside its metaphorical possibilities for thinking and theorizing the lived experience; foregrounded by Ahmed’s idea of “sweaty” concept and my own version of the /in/between as such. The main framework of analysis derives from Tim Cresswel’s notion of “Politics of Mobilities” under the imagery of the Ouroboros, to break down six elements of mobility through this autoethnography, namely: motive force, speed, rhythm, route, experience and friction, providing an account that is vulnerable, affective, mobile and necessary to break the silence that comes with gender restrictions towards a female body on the move. |
| Supervisor | Jones-Gailani, Nadia |
| Department | Gender Studies MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2021/pais-fornari_natalia.pdf |
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