Back to Search
Start Over
The art of 'writing in' the hospital under-life: auto-ethnographic reflections on subjugated knowledges in everyday practice.
- Source :
- Reflective Practice; Sep2010, Vol. 11 Issue 4, p529-544, 16p, 1 Color Photograph, 1 Chart
- Publication Year :
- 2010
-
Abstract
- Every working life will have a number of subjugated places, an 'immense remainder' of human experience that 'does not speak'. Auto-ethnography, an evocative and analytical form of writing which is itself an art, connects personal and cultural worlds by 'writing in' these ordinary everyday experiences. This auto-ethnographic study re-inscribes the everyday world of practice, which was 'written out' of my publications on the practices of a youth-specific occupational therapy project undertaken in the 1980s at Camperdown Children's Hospital. The paper evokes the hospital's 'under-life' as I experienced it. An assemblage of sense impressions and memories evokes the particular place where my writings are set and a gender analysis of hospital spaces in the early 1980s portrays the experience of a woman working in that place at that time. Auto-ethnographic accounts of practice can contribute to the field by revealing subjugated knowledges in professions populated by women. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 14623943
- Volume :
- 11
- Issue :
- 4
- Database :
- Complementary Index
- Journal :
- Reflective Practice
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 53539330
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1080/14623943.2010.505721