Inhabiting the Present
Joy, Embodiment, and Presence as an Imperative
Datos Bibliográficos
| ID | 17814735 |
|---|---|
| Autores | W K Okello (0000-0002-5056-1514, Pennsylvania State University, autor de correspondencia) |
| Año | 2026 |
| Fecha de publicación | 2026-01-20 |
| Peer Reviewed | Sí |
| Open Access | Sí |
| Tipo | ARTICLE |
| Revista | International Review of Qualitative Research (JOURNAL) |
| Identificadores de la revista | ISSN: 1940-8447 • E-ISSN: 1940-8455 |
| Editorial | SAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/19408447251410262 |
| OpenAlex | W7125219175 |
| Idioma | EN |
| Referencias citadas | 14 |
Autoethnography, like the song “This Joy,” can be an embodied instantiation of how to be. Drawing on the song as a point of departure, this essay explores how Black feminist autoethnography asserts ontological claims on the present, positioning itself as a practice of embodied, ethical attunement to everyday instantiations of Black living. Traveling across time, I return to my boyhood lessons on and about joy and move forward to a contemporary encounter with anti-Black custody, considering the claims to—and of—joy that emerge in these moments. Through this lens, I interrogate what possibilities autoethnography offers for inhabiting the present against the protracted, anti-Black haunting sustained by Western institutions, particularly educational institutions. The essay begins with an invitation into the sights and sounds of one Black church, revisits an anti-Black scene of custody, and closes with a poetic rumination on the work of presence, staking a claim on the present against overlapping forces of anti-Black enclosure
Attunement · Autoethnography · Embodied cognition · Poetry · Quilt · Quilting · Sight · Critical Race Theory in Education · Posthumanist Ethics and Activism · Theological Perspectives and Practices
| Velocidad de citación | historical |
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| Altamente citado | No |