User:Aitantv/Jones, S (2016) Living Bodies of Thought

Jones, S (2016) Living Bodies of Thought: The "Critical" in Critical Autoethnography. Published in Qualitative Inquiry (p1-10)

• "We cannot write our stories and then begin the search for a theory to "fit" them, outside of cultures and politics and contexts. Instead, theory is a langauage for thinking with and through, asking questions about, and acting on-the experiences and happenings in stories." (Jones, 2016, p2)
• "Theory and story work together in a dance of collaborative engagement" (Jones, 2016, p2)

+ story is used by Jones to communicate theory and autoethnography, as a process of journaling and self-examination illuminates theory

• "Queer stories shadow and haunt accounts of what is valid, normal, and right." (Jones, 2016, p5)
• "From our earliest moments we are taught to begin each endeavor, including grieving, with an aim, a project, a plan. What we don't teach ourselves, or others, is how easily these aims, projects, and plans can change, can evaporate, can create a suddenly present absence. How easily we are frustrated, felled. How we are suddenly exhausted but do not know why." (Jones, 2016, p7)
• "Utopian performances open up and out into the "not-yet-here."" (Jones, 2016, p8)

+ see Joes Munoz's 2009 'Cruising Utopia' for more info om utopian performatives