Narrative inquiry provides an opportunity to humanize the human sciences, placing people,
meaning, and personal identity at the center of research, inviting the development of …

This study explores female faculty members' pregnancy and pregnant embodiment in
academia. Based on semi-structured interviews with 32 faculty mothers from 21 academic …

Welcome to this special issue of the Journal of Organisational Ethnography “Organisational
Autoethnography: possibilities, politics and pitfalls”. This special issue acknowledges the …

MotherScholars are women, mothers, and academics that intentionally blend these identities
as an act of resistance to the academic institutions that often devalue and under support …

This personal narrative highlights an intended ambivalent pregnancy, speaking to Sotirin's
call for radical specificity in mother-writing. The author began writing in a creative nonfiction …

Recently Szwabowski argued that we should not have any criteria by which to judge,
evaluate, or review autoethnographic texts. While there are dangers of conformity whenever …

Many normative beliefs are shared and learned through interpersonal communication, yet
research on norms typically focuses on their effects rather than the communication that …

Course administrators hold a unique position in academe—one that requires high levels of
emotion management as part of the job. This research utilized a collaborative …

There are a variety of ethical situations that qualitative communication researchers must
navigate. This point is especially true when the research involves close personal contacts …

The concept of “cracking the cracked-up system” was introduced in a 2018 National
Communication Association (NCA) convention panel. The panel's purpose was to bring …