Patricia L Foster
Biographic Data
| ID | 4879857 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Patricia L Foster |
| GIVEN NAMES | Patricia L |
| FAMILY NAME | Foster |
| SIGNATURE | FOSTER P L |
| AFFILIATIONS | San Jose State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7236-4378 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 18 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 6 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
“Inter and Enter
This performative and collaborative autoethnography plays with the homophonic or maybe homiletics of “inter” and “enter” as the invitational aspect of collaborative autoethnography. The contribution of diverse collaborators from differing racial, ethnic, geo-spatial locations, and generational standpoints speak to/between experiences with the dialogic aspects of autoethnography; the speaking of self with and for others that is always a part of au…
“Collaborative Autoethnographic Writing as Communal Curative”
This collaborative autoethnography reflects on how each author experienced COVID-19 and associated precarity. We explore the ways in which this experience relates to our identities (both particular and plural), and our positionalities in terms of privilege and marginality. As a collective of diverse collaborators, we confront dialectical questions of self and society. Our contributions reveal our advantage/disadvantage, mobility/immobility, and t…
Other People’s Children
Integrating personal stories of maternal connection and separation with a detailed analysis of the 2018 crisis of migrant family separation in the United States, this autoethnographic essay examines the continuum between parental responsibility and collective engagement for the greater good. A comparison is made between the current crisis of family separation and the case of the Stolen Generations of Indigenous children in Australia, particularly…
Academic Labor in the Age of Anxiety
In this autoethnographic essay, I reflect on three spheres of academic work-program administration, teaching, and scholarship-and find evidence of the effects of neoliberalism in each sphere of practice. Specifically, I articulate the prevailing emotional experience of my academic work as anxiety, which is a consequence of internalizing the construction of students-as-consumers and responding uncritically to the demands of academic organizations …
Physicians’ Stories
This article reflects on a project in which the author guided several physicians as they wrote their first autoethnographic research articles, which were then presented at the International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry in 2011. Revisiting three of the physicians’ stories, the article articulates the significance of having physicians—scientists by training—engage autoethnography as an emotional, literary, poetic, and embodied practice. The auth…
Desiring Dialectical Discourse
Contemporary discourse about career motherhood reifies a public/private dichotomy that ignores the evolving obligations and desires in women's lives. Problems arise when complex private stories of pregnancy meet the inflexibility of public discourse and its concomitant social practices. A relational perspective reframes “public/private” from static binary to dynamic dialectic. Mirroring the proposed public and private dialectic, this essay integr…
Academic Labor in the Age of Anxiety
In this autoethnographic essay, I reflect on three spheres of academic work-program administration, teaching, and scholarship-and find evidence of the effects of neoliberalism in each sphere of practice. Specifically, I articulate the prevailing emotional experience of my academic work as anxiety, which is a consequence of internalizing the construction of students-as-consumers and responding uncritically to the demands of academic organizations …
Desiring Dialectical Discourse
Contemporary discourse about career motherhood reifies a public/private dichotomy that ignores the evolving obligations and desires in women's lives. Problems arise when complex private stories of pregnancy meet the inflexibility of public discourse and its concomitant social practices. A relational perspective reframes “public/private” from static binary to dynamic dialectic. Mirroring the proposed public and private dialectic, this essay integr…
Desiring Dialectical Discourse
Contemporary discourse about career motherhood reifies a public/private dichotomy that ignores the evolving obligations and desires in women's lives. Problems arise when complex private stories of pregnancy meet the inflexibility of public discourse and its concomitant social practices. A relational perspective reframes “public/private” from static binary to dynamic dialectic. Mirroring the proposed public and private dialectic, this essay integr…
Physicians’ Stories
This article reflects on a project in which the author guided several physicians as they wrote their first autoethnographic research articles, which were then presented at the International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry in 2011. Revisiting three of the physicians’ stories, the article articulates the significance of having physicians—scientists by training—engage autoethnography as an emotional, literary, poetic, and embodied practice. The auth…
Academic Labor in the Age of Anxiety
In this autoethnographic essay, I reflect on three spheres of academic work-program administration, teaching, and scholarship-and find evidence of the effects of neoliberalism in each sphere of practice. Specifically, I articulate the prevailing emotional experience of my academic work as anxiety, which is a consequence of internalizing the construction of students-as-consumers and responding uncritically to the demands of academic organizations …
Other People’s Children
Integrating personal stories of maternal connection and separation with a detailed analysis of the 2018 crisis of migrant family separation in the United States, this autoethnographic essay examines the continuum between parental responsibility and collective engagement for the greater good. A comparison is made between the current crisis of family separation and the case of the Stolen Generations of Indigenous children in Australia, particularly…
“Inter and Enter
This performative and collaborative autoethnography plays with the homophonic or maybe homiletics of “inter” and “enter” as the invitational aspect of collaborative autoethnography. The contribution of diverse collaborators from differing racial, ethnic, geo-spatial locations, and generational standpoints speak to/between experiences with the dialogic aspects of autoethnography; the speaking of self with and for others that is always a part of au…
“Collaborative Autoethnographic Writing as Communal Curative”
This collaborative autoethnography reflects on how each author experienced COVID-19 and associated precarity. We explore the ways in which this experience relates to our identities (both particular and plural), and our positionalities in terms of privilege and marginality. As a collective of diverse collaborators, we confront dialectical questions of self and society. Our contributions reveal our advantage/disadvantage, mobility/immobility, and t…
Sociology (6 works) · Gender Studies (5 works) · Psychology (5 works) · Autoethnography (4 works) · Pedagogy (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Epistemology (3 works) · Linguistics (3 works) · Art (2 works) · Child Welfare and Adoption (2 works)