Reading Group on Autoethnography

29.04.2025
LUCA Alexianenplein 1, Ghent (Mia Desmet-zaal) + online through https://taat.live/agora/autoethnography

In this reading group we explored autoethnography both as method and practice, focusing on how personal narrative, memory, and positionally are able to disrupt and expand traditional research paradigms. The session took place in a hybrid reading room designed for collective reading, reflection and conversation at the intersections of autoethnography, embodied and artistic research practices. 

Drawing from the texts ‘For multispecies autoethnography' by Kathryn Gillespie and ‘I swear I hated it, and therefore I drew it’ by Letizia Bonanno, we thought-through-autoethnography as process and product, drawing and other embodied research practices, the potential of personal stories to reveal how we know.  The session was hosted by artist-researcher Dieuwke Raymaekers.

Texts: 

Gillespie, K., 'For multispecies autoethnography', Nature and Space, 2022, Vol. 5(4)
- page 2101-2102 (until "A multispecies autoethnographic illustration”)
- page 2106-end (from "Excavating anthropocentrism")

Bonanno, L. (2019). ‘I swear I hated it, and therefore I drew it’, entanglements, 2(2):39-55
https://entanglementsjournal.wordpress.com/i-swear-i-hated-it/