Larry Russell
Biographic Data
| ID | 5625316 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Larry Russell |
| GIVEN NAMES | Larry |
| FAMILY NAME | Russell |
| SIGNATURE | RUSSELL L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Hofstra University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Intensity: A Collaborative Autoethnography
In this collaborative autoethnography, the five of us explore the experience and ethics of writing—and living—from/in intensity. We have been writing together since meeting at the Third International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry (QI), when we made a commitment to write over the following year to, for, and with each other. It became an experiment in the craft of autoethnography, exploring questions of intimacy and connection manifested through …
Writing the Journey
This reflection on writing is set in motion by an analogy between the images of a researcher at his desk and a man freefalling into space. I ruminate through my story of discovering autoethnography and consider how I had to negotiate my personal history, reluctant body, and sexual orientation in order to fully participate in the healing pilgrimage I chose to study. My encounter with the intensity of the gesture of suffering in a crucifix taught m…
Darkness and Silence: The Dis/connection of Writing Intimacy
Having written as a group for four years, we continue with an emblematic methodology of writing into the dark, writing into a space that has become an intensive, maturing, messy, ethically caring, collaborative venture of changing composition. Our collective self writes into a tentative anticipating trust in our presence though we are shaded in uncertainty. We have written with desire and labor, intimacy and work, stuttering and stumbling our way…
How Writing Touches: An Intimate Scholarly Collaboration
Five scholars, with varying histories together, met as writers at a workshop at the 2007 International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry and made a commitment to write over the following year to, for and with each other in an experiment in the craft of autoethnography, an experiment that led us to explore questions of intimacy and connection manifested through collaborative writing. Each year since then we have returned to Congress to read a small …
Learning to Walk
The practices of an annual, hundred-mile pilgrimage to a shrine of healing dirt in New Mexico offer a remarkable discourse on social compassion as participants ritually share the suffering of people whose pleas for prayer they carry. For seven years I have been known as the middle-aged, Anglo professor from Brooklyn who joins them. My participation does not provide me a privileged view but a modest opportunity to learn through my aging body, urba…
A long way toward compassion
Pilgrimage to a shrine of healing in northern New Mexico provides a ritual possibility for a community's passionate response to human suffering. Drawn to their substantial and robust performances, I join one of several groups traveling to the sacred site. During the passage I am guided by fellow travelers whose practices resist the silence of a society more receptive to a discourse of pleasure than of pain. As the pilgrims figuratively and litera…
Stopping by a Cemetery on a Snowy Morning
This autoethnography follows the author on a winter journey that culminates at a cemetery where his mother is buried. Along the way, his final negotiations with his family over the impending loss are complicated by years of estrangement since his coming out as a gay male. As he is welcomed "home" by his sister, his recent experience as an ethnographer of pilgrimage prepares him for the possibility that shared suffering through ritual participatio…
A long way toward compassion
Pilgrimage to a shrine of healing in northern New Mexico provides a ritual possibility for a community's passionate response to human suffering. Drawn to their substantial and robust performances, I join one of several groups traveling to the sacred site. During the passage I am guided by fellow travelers whose practices resist the silence of a society more receptive to a discourse of pleasure than of pain. As the pilgrims figuratively and litera…
Stopping by a Cemetery on a Snowy Morning
This autoethnography follows the author on a winter journey that culminates at a cemetery where his mother is buried. Along the way, his final negotiations with his family over the impending loss are complicated by years of estrangement since his coming out as a gay male. As he is welcomed "home" by his sister, his recent experience as an ethnographer of pilgrimage prepares him for the possibility that shared suffering through ritual participatio…
Stopping by a Cemetery on a Snowy Morning
This autoethnography follows the author on a winter journey that culminates at a cemetery where his mother is buried. Along the way, his final negotiations with his family over the impending loss are complicated by years of estrangement since his coming out as a gay male. As he is welcomed "home" by his sister, his recent experience as an ethnographer of pilgrimage prepares him for the possibility that shared suffering through ritual participatio…
A long way toward compassion
Pilgrimage to a shrine of healing in northern New Mexico provides a ritual possibility for a community's passionate response to human suffering. Drawn to their substantial and robust performances, I join one of several groups traveling to the sacred site. During the passage I am guided by fellow travelers whose practices resist the silence of a society more receptive to a discourse of pleasure than of pain. As the pilgrims figuratively and litera…
Learning to Walk
The practices of an annual, hundred-mile pilgrimage to a shrine of healing dirt in New Mexico offer a remarkable discourse on social compassion as participants ritually share the suffering of people whose pleas for prayer they carry. For seven years I have been known as the middle-aged, Anglo professor from Brooklyn who joins them. My participation does not provide me a privileged view but a modest opportunity to learn through my aging body, urba…
How Writing Touches: An Intimate Scholarly Collaboration
Five scholars, with varying histories together, met as writers at a workshop at the 2007 International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry and made a commitment to write over the following year to, for and with each other in an experiment in the craft of autoethnography, an experiment that led us to explore questions of intimacy and connection manifested through collaborative writing. Each year since then we have returned to Congress to read a small …
Writing the Journey
This reflection on writing is set in motion by an analogy between the images of a researcher at his desk and a man freefalling into space. I ruminate through my story of discovering autoethnography and consider how I had to negotiate my personal history, reluctant body, and sexual orientation in order to fully participate in the healing pilgrimage I chose to study. My encounter with the intensity of the gesture of suffering in a crucifix taught m…
Darkness and Silence: The Dis/connection of Writing Intimacy
Having written as a group for four years, we continue with an emblematic methodology of writing into the dark, writing into a space that has become an intensive, maturing, messy, ethically caring, collaborative venture of changing composition. Our collective self writes into a tentative anticipating trust in our presence though we are shaded in uncertainty. We have written with desire and labor, intimacy and work, stuttering and stumbling our way…
Intensity: A Collaborative Autoethnography
In this collaborative autoethnography, the five of us explore the experience and ethics of writing—and living—from/in intensity. We have been writing together since meeting at the Third International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry (QI), when we made a commitment to write over the following year to, for, and with each other. It became an experiment in the craft of autoethnography, exploring questions of intimacy and connection manifested through …
Art (7 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Aesthetics (6 works) · Autoethnography (5 works) · Gender Studies (5 works) · History (4 works) · Literature (4 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · Pilgrimage (4 works) · Psychology (4 works)