The Decolonial Offerings of Collaborative Autoethnography with the Nahui Ollin

Authors

  • Emily Davalos Northern Arizona University
  • Valentina Jadue The Omar Ibn Said School of Public Education
  • Michelle Pérez Ibarra Guacamaya Roja

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.51734/fv30am08

Abstract

Our stories do not speak for everyone, and they were never intended to. However, weaving our stories adds strength and weight to reclaiming the knowledge and ways of being that colonization sought to destroy. We used collaborative autoethnography (CAE) because it strengthens the power of a single story by weaving it with others to cultivate their medicine (Chang, Ngunjiri, and Hernandez 2016). When used with a decolonial framework, CAE can disrupt settler colonial logics and whiteness (Davalos 2021). Additionally, CAE with a decolonial framework challenges hegemonic power structures by disrupting dominant ideologies and power differentials in research as well as by reclaiming our generative knowledge with the land (Davalos 2021).

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Published

2024-08-13

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Vol. 25 (2024): Inter/weaving, Inter/lacing Consciousness & Resistance: Decolonizing Practices, Intersectionality & Aesthetics

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