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Heartbeats

Exploring the Power of Qualitative Research Expressed As Autoethnographic Performance Texts

John Carroll University, Cleveland, Ohio

Carolyne J. White

Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, Newark

Patricia Alvarez McHatton

University of South Florida, Tampa

Clarence Shelley

University of Illinois-Urbana Champaign

Tim Bond

University of Bristol, United Kingdom

Ruth Nicole Brown

University of Illinois-Urbana Champaign

Lois Melina

Gonzaga University, Spokane, Washington

Lois Ann Scheidt

Indiana University, Bloomington

Jackie Goode

University of Nottingham, United Kingdom

Phoenix De Carteret

Monash University-Gippsland, Churchill, Victoria, Australia

Jonathan Wyatt

University of Oxford

One of the ways to participate as change agents in the struggle toward a true participatory global democracy is constructing spaces in which to communicate across race, ethnicity, religion, class, and culture. This collaborative, auto/ethnographic performance text was started during a pre-conference workshop titled "Heartbeats: Writing Performance Texts," I designed and facilitated with the help of my colleague Carolyne J. White. The purpose of the workshop was to encourage colleague participants from around the globe to construct spiritual and physical spaces for creating sacred, performance texts grounded in their lived experiences both as researchers and as socially conscious beings in the world; and to share them out loud in an ad hoc learning community environment. The environment was created in part, by transforming a traditional university meeting space into a space filled with cultural artifacts, photographs, music, and the voices of men and women gathered together for a brief period of time, in the hopes of encouraging the construction of more sessions like this in traditional university conference settings.

Key Words: Poetic Inquiry • autoethnography • ethnography • imagination intellect • sacred space • lived experience

This version was published on May 1, 2009

Qualitative Inquiry, Vol. 15, No. 5, 843-858 (2009)
DOI: 10.1177/1077800409333155


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