Laurie L Charlés
Biographic Data
| ID | 108454 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Laurie L Charlés |
| GIVEN NAMES | Laurie L |
| FAMILY NAME | Charlés |
| SIGNATURE | CHARLÉS L L |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Massachusetts Boston |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 6 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1966 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Autoethnography as a Never-Ending Story
The proliferation of autoethnographies offers scholars and writers multiple opportunities to consider the various methods of authorial positioning in qualitative research inquiry. In this article, I review Guyana Diaries: Women's Lives across Difference, by Kimberly D. Nettles, while reflecting my own choices as an autoethnographic author. Autoethnographic writing is presented as a 'never-ending story,' which may have lasting, transformative effe…
Intimate Colonialism
Laurie Charlés finished her Ph.D., then took off to West Africa as a Peace Corps volunteer. Asked to create programs to help adolescent girls stay in school, she found herself enmeshed in the politics and cultural barriers that prevent these girls from creating a better life. But that was not all that was enmeshed. Charlés found love, sexual fulfillment, sexual harassment, and gender discrimination, all of which further complexified her stated mi…
My Nine Lives as an Academic
In this article, I describe my experiences 72 hours after I was told I had a life-threatening medical condition. My experience as an autoethnographer and my interest in embodied knowing put a unique spin on the narrative that developed in those three days. What I present here is an autoethnographic story of my experience, which culminated in a "miraculous" life-saving procedure that probably saved my life-but left me with multiple questions about…
Cultural Competency as a Relational Process
This article describes the experiences of a U.S.-based family therapy practitioner during a 3-week academic consultation in the Philippines. Revisioning the concept of cultural competency as a performance that occurs in relationship, the author shares three autoethnographic stories that illustrate cultural borderlands in the global arena of family therapy training and practice. The stories address (a) questioning dominant (U.S.) views of family t…
Young Women Struggling for an Education
In this article I describe the development of a project designed to improve the educational opportunities of young girls in a rural village community in West Africa. Using a metaphor of witnessing (Weingarten, 2003), I describe my experiences working on a project that resulted in the formation, with host country nationals, of a committee to promote girls' education in the village community. From a first-person perspective, I outline the formation…
An Experiment in the Training of Social Workers and Prisoners
L. CHARLES, IAN M. DUNBAR; AN EXPERIMENT IN THE TRAINING OF SOCIAL WORKERS AND PRISONERS, The British Journal of Criminology, Volume 6, Issue 4, 1 October
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An Experiment in the Training of Social Workers and Prisoners
L. CHARLES, IAN M. DUNBAR; AN EXPERIMENT IN THE TRAINING OF SOCIAL WORKERS AND PRISONERS, The British Journal of Criminology, Volume 6, Issue 4, 1 October
Young Women Struggling for an Education
In this article I describe the development of a project designed to improve the educational opportunities of young girls in a rural village community in West Africa. Using a metaphor of witnessing (Weingarten, 2003), I describe my experiences working on a project that resulted in the formation, with host country nationals, of a committee to promote girls' education in the village community. From a first-person perspective, I outline the formation…
Cultural Competency as a Relational Process
This article describes the experiences of a U.S.-based family therapy practitioner during a 3-week academic consultation in the Philippines. Revisioning the concept of cultural competency as a performance that occurs in relationship, the author shares three autoethnographic stories that illustrate cultural borderlands in the global arena of family therapy training and practice. The stories address (a) questioning dominant (U.S.) views of family t…
My Nine Lives as an Academic
In this article, I describe my experiences 72 hours after I was told I had a life-threatening medical condition. My experience as an autoethnographer and my interest in embodied knowing put a unique spin on the narrative that developed in those three days. What I present here is an autoethnographic story of my experience, which culminated in a "miraculous" life-saving procedure that probably saved my life-but left me with multiple questions about…
Autoethnography as a Never-Ending Story
The proliferation of autoethnographies offers scholars and writers multiple opportunities to consider the various methods of authorial positioning in qualitative research inquiry. In this article, I review Guyana Diaries: Women's Lives across Difference, by Kimberly D. Nettles, while reflecting my own choices as an autoethnographic author. Autoethnographic writing is presented as a 'never-ending story,' which may have lasting, transformative effe…
Intimate Colonialism
Laurie Charlés finished her Ph.D., then took off to West Africa as a Peace Corps volunteer. Asked to create programs to help adolescent girls stay in school, she found herself enmeshed in the politics and cultural barriers that prevent these girls from creating a better life. But that was not all that was enmeshed. Charlés found love, sexual fulfillment, sexual harassment, and gender discrimination, all of which further complexified her stated mi…
Sociology (5 works) · Gender Studies (4 works) · Pedagogy (4 works) · Psychology (4 works) · Autoethnography (3 works) · Counseling, Therapy, and Family Dynamics (3 works) · Gender Studies (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Anthropology (2 works) · Art (2 works)