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Papers by Tami Spry
International Review of Qualitative Research, 2008
... So someone shows a video in class, asks if there are any questions, and the day goes on where... more ... So someone shows a video in class, asks if there are any questions, and the day goes on where any face of color on a shirt can be Osama Bin Laden and war is a ready answer. Silence is surely systemic. ... Ronald J. Pelias and Lynn C. Miller. Carbondale, IL: SIU Press, 2001. ...
Departures in Critical Qualitative Research, 2015
Robin M. Boylorn's Sweetwater caused me to examine stereotypes that claw at my own background-dee... more Robin M. Boylorn's Sweetwater caused me to examine stereotypes that claw at my own background-deeply racist aunts and uncles refused to think beyond an ignorance of the other, allowing them to find some class-based solace in relation to their own feelings of sociocultural worthlessness. In the tradition of good scholarship, Robin's work invites me to unnerve my own whitegirlness, to unsettle this racially reifying practice and, with all of the pedagogical potentiality of performance, hopefully, to engage a conversation privileging a continued critical and communal reflexivity.
Text and Performance Quarterly, 2014
International Review of Qualitative Research, 2013
In this collaborative autoethnography, the five of us explore the experience and ethics of writin... more In this collaborative autoethnography, the five of us explore the experience and ethics of writing-and living-from/in intensity. We have been writing together since meeting at the Third International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry (QI), when we made a commitment to write over the following year to, for, and with each other. It became an experiment in the craft of autoethnography, exploring questions of intimacy and connection manifested through collaborative writing, a series of texts exchanged via e-mail. This essay's sequence of writing during July and August 2008 follows a period of silence. Senses of intensities emerged from our collaborative autoethnographic practice over this period: We remain unsure of what intensities might be, and in the fluidity of this lack of certainty we feel we can claim a pedagogical practice of inquiry that comes from this writing into our always not-yet-known.
Text and Performance Quarterly
Text and Performance Quarterly
... might say. Page 2. 234 TAMI SPRY I've thought of it every other day or so. That panel, t... more ... might say. Page 2. 234 TAMI SPRY I've thought of it every other day or so. That panel, those bodies with words spilling, spurting, swelling, out of their mouths. And I, and others close to me swooning, sighing, surrendering. And I ...
Five scholars, with varying histories together, met as writers at a workshop at the 2007 Internat... more Five scholars, with varying histories together, met as writers at a workshop at the 2007 International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry and made a commitment to write over the following year to, for and with each other in an experiment in the craft of autoethnography, an experiment that led us to explore questions of intimacy and connection manifested through collaborative writing. Each year since then we have returned to Congress to read a small anthology of the year's writing—and to decide whether or not to continue. This paper is drawn from our third year of writing together across the changing distances, as our bodies moved and lay still in both unfamiliar and familiar spaces. Within castles and beside oceans, on pastures and in homes, at universities and hospitals, we wrote together, between and amongst our group of five, working, as always, it seems, at who and what we are becoming. The joy of our continuing writing presence in each others' lives, our pleasure and surpr...
Text and Performance Quarterly, 2013
Text and Performance Quarterly, 2014
International Review of Qualitative Research, 2013
International Review of Qualitative Research, 2013
JSTOR is a not-for-profit service that helps scholars, researchers, and students discover, use, a... more JSTOR is a not-for-profit service that helps scholars, researchers, and students discover, use, and build upon a wide range of content in a trusted digital archive. We use information technology and tools to increase productivity and facilitate new forms of scholarship. For more information about JSTOR, please contact support@jstor.org.
International Review of Qualitative Research, 2013
ABSTRACT Having written as a group for four years, we continue with an emblematic methodology of ... more ABSTRACT Having written as a group for four years, we continue with an emblematic methodology of writing into the dark, writing into a space that has become an intensive, maturing, messy, ethically caring, collaborative venture of changing composition. Our collective self writes into a tentative anticipating trust in our presence though we are shaded in uncertainty. We have written with desire and labor, intimacy and work, stuttering and stumbling our way through what has been a vibrant and aging transatlantic writing group. And now we have come to the perhaps inevitable question about whether we want to continue writing together. This installment traces the complexity of that question.
Cultural Studies ↔ Critical Methodologies, 2012
ABSTRACT
Cultural Studies ↔ Critical Methodologies, 2012
ABSTRACT In this article we record, recount, and reflect on a 48-hour period in which we hang out... more ABSTRACT In this article we record, recount, and reflect on a 48-hour period in which we hang out in a rented house beside a lake with the intention of writing collaboratively. The writing emerges out of conversations. Our exchanges move back and forth and sideways between talking, writing, reading, and responding to each other’s writing. These exchanges are held together and created through cooking, eating, going to the pub, walking, making cocktails, singing, and arguing. This is a narrative account, in real/chronological time of a collaborative process of generating this writing. As such these are the raw, unedited texts. Our process includes three instances of talking, writing, and reading. We offer this as a backstage snapshot of collaborative writing.
International Review of Qualitative Research, 2009
... I utilize autoethnographic writing on loss and hope to operationalize the epis-temic/aestheti... more ... I utilize autoethnographic writing on loss and hope to operationalize the epis-temic/aesthetic praxis as an ethical imperative for performative autoethnog-raphy. The process of performative autoethnography is a bit like a CSI episode. ...
Describing the Bricolage: Conceptualizing a New Rigor in Qualitative Research, Dec 1, 2001
QUALITATIVE INQUIRY/December 2001 INDEX INDEX to QUALITATIVE INQUIRY Volume 7 Number 1 (February ... more QUALITATIVE INQUIRY/December 2001 INDEX INDEX to QUALITATIVE INQUIRY Volume 7 Number 1 (February 2001) pp. 1-128 Number 2 (April 2001) pp. 129-258 Number 3 (June 2001) pp. 259-400 Number 4 (August 2001) pp. 401-528 Number 5 (October 2001) pp. 529-676 Number 6 (December 2001) pp. 677-820 Authors: ALTHEIDE, DAVID L. AND BARBARA GRAY, ROY JANISCH, LINDSEY KORBIN, RAY MARATEA, DEBRA NEILL, JOSEPH REAVES, and FELICIA VAN DEMAN, “News Constructions of Fear and Victim: An ...
Qualitative Inquiry, 2004
We thank the following reviewers who rendered extraordinary service to Qualitative Inquiry, Volum... more We thank the following reviewers who rendered extraordinary service to Qualitative Inquiry, Volume 10. ... Bryant Keith Alexander Donna E. Alvermann Ruoyun Bai Art Bochner Ivan Brady Edward Bruner Phil F. Carspecken Kathy C. Charmaz Susan E. Chase Martha A. Copp Jim Denison Greg Dimitriadis Nadine Dolby Chris Dunbar Aisha Durham Laura Ellingson Carolyn S. Ellis Mustafa Yunus Eryaman Alice Filmer Susan Finley Michael Flaherty Andrea Fontana Elissa Foster Melissa Freeman Josh Gamson Suzanne Gannon Sarah N. Gatson
Text and Performance Quarterly, 2006
Text and Performance Quarterly, 1997
... I would come in the back door where Mom would be standing at the top of the stairs. She would... more ... I would come in the back door where Mom would be standing at the top of the stairs. She would say, "Hi, Litde!" Well, in the dreams, I was at the top of the stairs looking down at a black hole. From die hole would come my mother's voice, "Litde ... Tami... Little..." Page 5. 365 ...
International Review of Qualitative Research, 2008
... So someone shows a video in class, asks if there are any questions, and the day goes on where... more ... So someone shows a video in class, asks if there are any questions, and the day goes on where any face of color on a shirt can be Osama Bin Laden and war is a ready answer. Silence is surely systemic. ... Ronald J. Pelias and Lynn C. Miller. Carbondale, IL: SIU Press, 2001. ...
Departures in Critical Qualitative Research, 2015
Robin M. Boylorn's Sweetwater caused me to examine stereotypes that claw at my own background-dee... more Robin M. Boylorn's Sweetwater caused me to examine stereotypes that claw at my own background-deeply racist aunts and uncles refused to think beyond an ignorance of the other, allowing them to find some class-based solace in relation to their own feelings of sociocultural worthlessness. In the tradition of good scholarship, Robin's work invites me to unnerve my own whitegirlness, to unsettle this racially reifying practice and, with all of the pedagogical potentiality of performance, hopefully, to engage a conversation privileging a continued critical and communal reflexivity.
Text and Performance Quarterly, 2014
International Review of Qualitative Research, 2013
In this collaborative autoethnography, the five of us explore the experience and ethics of writin... more In this collaborative autoethnography, the five of us explore the experience and ethics of writing-and living-from/in intensity. We have been writing together since meeting at the Third International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry (QI), when we made a commitment to write over the following year to, for, and with each other. It became an experiment in the craft of autoethnography, exploring questions of intimacy and connection manifested through collaborative writing, a series of texts exchanged via e-mail. This essay's sequence of writing during July and August 2008 follows a period of silence. Senses of intensities emerged from our collaborative autoethnographic practice over this period: We remain unsure of what intensities might be, and in the fluidity of this lack of certainty we feel we can claim a pedagogical practice of inquiry that comes from this writing into our always not-yet-known.
Text and Performance Quarterly
Text and Performance Quarterly
... might say. Page 2. 234 TAMI SPRY I've thought of it every other day or so. That panel, t... more ... might say. Page 2. 234 TAMI SPRY I've thought of it every other day or so. That panel, those bodies with words spilling, spurting, swelling, out of their mouths. And I, and others close to me swooning, sighing, surrendering. And I ...
Five scholars, with varying histories together, met as writers at a workshop at the 2007 Internat... more Five scholars, with varying histories together, met as writers at a workshop at the 2007 International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry and made a commitment to write over the following year to, for and with each other in an experiment in the craft of autoethnography, an experiment that led us to explore questions of intimacy and connection manifested through collaborative writing. Each year since then we have returned to Congress to read a small anthology of the year's writing—and to decide whether or not to continue. This paper is drawn from our third year of writing together across the changing distances, as our bodies moved and lay still in both unfamiliar and familiar spaces. Within castles and beside oceans, on pastures and in homes, at universities and hospitals, we wrote together, between and amongst our group of five, working, as always, it seems, at who and what we are becoming. The joy of our continuing writing presence in each others' lives, our pleasure and surpr...
Text and Performance Quarterly, 2013
Text and Performance Quarterly, 2014
International Review of Qualitative Research, 2013
International Review of Qualitative Research, 2013
JSTOR is a not-for-profit service that helps scholars, researchers, and students discover, use, a... more JSTOR is a not-for-profit service that helps scholars, researchers, and students discover, use, and build upon a wide range of content in a trusted digital archive. We use information technology and tools to increase productivity and facilitate new forms of scholarship. For more information about JSTOR, please contact support@jstor.org.
International Review of Qualitative Research, 2013
ABSTRACT Having written as a group for four years, we continue with an emblematic methodology of ... more ABSTRACT Having written as a group for four years, we continue with an emblematic methodology of writing into the dark, writing into a space that has become an intensive, maturing, messy, ethically caring, collaborative venture of changing composition. Our collective self writes into a tentative anticipating trust in our presence though we are shaded in uncertainty. We have written with desire and labor, intimacy and work, stuttering and stumbling our way through what has been a vibrant and aging transatlantic writing group. And now we have come to the perhaps inevitable question about whether we want to continue writing together. This installment traces the complexity of that question.
Cultural Studies ↔ Critical Methodologies, 2012
ABSTRACT
Cultural Studies ↔ Critical Methodologies, 2012
ABSTRACT In this article we record, recount, and reflect on a 48-hour period in which we hang out... more ABSTRACT In this article we record, recount, and reflect on a 48-hour period in which we hang out in a rented house beside a lake with the intention of writing collaboratively. The writing emerges out of conversations. Our exchanges move back and forth and sideways between talking, writing, reading, and responding to each other’s writing. These exchanges are held together and created through cooking, eating, going to the pub, walking, making cocktails, singing, and arguing. This is a narrative account, in real/chronological time of a collaborative process of generating this writing. As such these are the raw, unedited texts. Our process includes three instances of talking, writing, and reading. We offer this as a backstage snapshot of collaborative writing.
International Review of Qualitative Research, 2009
... I utilize autoethnographic writing on loss and hope to operationalize the epis-temic/aestheti... more ... I utilize autoethnographic writing on loss and hope to operationalize the epis-temic/aesthetic praxis as an ethical imperative for performative autoethnog-raphy. The process of performative autoethnography is a bit like a CSI episode. ...
Describing the Bricolage: Conceptualizing a New Rigor in Qualitative Research, Dec 1, 2001
QUALITATIVE INQUIRY/December 2001 INDEX INDEX to QUALITATIVE INQUIRY Volume 7 Number 1 (February ... more QUALITATIVE INQUIRY/December 2001 INDEX INDEX to QUALITATIVE INQUIRY Volume 7 Number 1 (February 2001) pp. 1-128 Number 2 (April 2001) pp. 129-258 Number 3 (June 2001) pp. 259-400 Number 4 (August 2001) pp. 401-528 Number 5 (October 2001) pp. 529-676 Number 6 (December 2001) pp. 677-820 Authors: ALTHEIDE, DAVID L. AND BARBARA GRAY, ROY JANISCH, LINDSEY KORBIN, RAY MARATEA, DEBRA NEILL, JOSEPH REAVES, and FELICIA VAN DEMAN, “News Constructions of Fear and Victim: An ...
Qualitative Inquiry, 2004
We thank the following reviewers who rendered extraordinary service to Qualitative Inquiry, Volum... more We thank the following reviewers who rendered extraordinary service to Qualitative Inquiry, Volume 10. ... Bryant Keith Alexander Donna E. Alvermann Ruoyun Bai Art Bochner Ivan Brady Edward Bruner Phil F. Carspecken Kathy C. Charmaz Susan E. Chase Martha A. Copp Jim Denison Greg Dimitriadis Nadine Dolby Chris Dunbar Aisha Durham Laura Ellingson Carolyn S. Ellis Mustafa Yunus Eryaman Alice Filmer Susan Finley Michael Flaherty Andrea Fontana Elissa Foster Melissa Freeman Josh Gamson Suzanne Gannon Sarah N. Gatson
Text and Performance Quarterly, 2006
Text and Performance Quarterly, 1997
... I would come in the back door where Mom would be standing at the top of the stairs. She would... more ... I would come in the back door where Mom would be standing at the top of the stairs. She would say, "Hi, Litde!" Well, in the dreams, I was at the top of the stairs looking down at a black hole. From die hole would come my mother's voice, "Litde ... Tami... Little..." Page 5. 365 ...
Challenging the critique of autoethnography as overly focused on the self, Tami Spry calls for a ... more Challenging the critique of autoethnography as overly focused on the self, Tami Spry calls for a performative autoethnography that both unsettles the "I" and represents the Other with equal commitment. Expanding on her popular book Body, Paper, Stage, Spry uses a variety of examples, literary forms, and theoretical traditions to reframe this research method as transgressive, liberatory, and decolonizing for both self and Other. Her book draws on her own autoethnographic work with jazz musicians, shamans, and other groups; outlines a utopian performative methodology to spur hope and transformation; provides concrete guidance on how to implement this innovative methodological approach.
The book will be released in May 2016. Please contact Routledge: https://www.routledge.com/products/9781611328608
Tami Spry provides a methodological introduction to the budding field of performative autoethnogr... more Tami Spry provides a methodological introduction to the budding field of performative autoethnography. She intertwines three necessary elements comprising the process. First one is critically reflexive of the body – navigating concepts of self, culture, language, class, race, gender, and physicality. The second task is to put that body on the page, assigning words for that body’s sociocultural experiences. Finally, this merger of body and paper is lifted up to the stage, crafting a persona as a method of personal inquiry. These three stages are simultaneous and interdependent, and only in cultivating all three does performance autoethnography begin to take shape. Replete with examples and exercises, this is an important introductory work for autoethnographers and performance artists alike.