Enacting affirmative ethics through autotheory

Sense-making with affect during Covid-19

Dados Bibliográficos

ID12215331
AutoresKathryn J Strom (0000-0002-6411-2779, California State University East Bay, Hayward, CA, USA, autor correspondente), Tammy Mills (University of Maine at Augusta, Augusta, ME, USA)
Ano2022
Volume37
Fascículo3
Páginas660-675
Data de publicação2022-12-13
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessNão
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoInternational Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0951-8398 • E-ISSN: 1366-5898
EditoraTaylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/09518398.2022.2127024
OpenAlexW4311389631
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas5
Referências citadas44

This autotheoretical paper exploring a collaborative project we engaged in during the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic (March–May 2020) is structured as two intertwined stories. The first, a series of autotheoretical vignettes, expresses our process of sense-making about affect as well as multiple affective productions that spurred learning, personal and relational growth, and becomings-otherwise. The second delves into posthuman methodology, autotheory, affect, and affirmative ethics. Together these highlight the ways that our collaborative work of attending to affect helped us enact an affirmative ethics by tapping into traumatic lived experiences of COVID-19, isolation, and academic work, and transforming them into knowledge-producing, connection-creating, hopeful encounters. These encounters gesture to ways that enacting affirmative ethics as a collaborative critical posthuman praxis can help us collectively thrive in neoliberal conditions

Aesthetics · Affect (linguistics · Political science · Posthuman · Praxis · Sociology · Law · Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy · Philosophy, Ethics, and Existentialism · Posthumanist Ethics and Activism · Psychology · Social Psychology