Autoethnography and 'chimeric‐thinking': A phenomenological reconsideration of illness and alterity
Dados Bibliográficos
| AUTOR(ES) | |
|---|---|
| AFILIAÇÃO(ÕES) | University of Southern Denmark, Sector Research and Analysis at the European Monitoring Centre on Racism and Xenophobia, Vienna |
| ANO | Não informado |
| TIPO | Artigo |
| DOI | 10.1111/taja.12420 |
| CITAÇÕES | 1 |
| ADICIONADO EM | 2025-08-18 |
Resumo
This paper tackles the concept of alterity through an embodied perspective. By questioning my lived experience of cancer and how illness—as a disruptive event (Carel, 2008, 2016, 2021)—enables philosophical reflection and the exploration of 'other' ways of being‐in‐the‐world (Merleau‐Ponty 2012 [1945]), I ask if an embodied 'chimeric‐thinking' can be used to question established notions of alterity and reshape our relationship with 'otherness' (Leistle 2015, 2016b). Building on a phenomenological approach to illness (Carel 2012, 2014, 2016, 2021), and a feminist post‐humanist approach (Haraway 1990, 1991, 2016), I present a case in which an autoethnographic and phenomenological approach focused on embodied experience may help revise dominant perspectives, providing access to understanding and engaging with profound biopsychosocial and somatic transformations.