This article is dialogic. Several voices engage together from the loci of embodied, relational, and textual standpoints. Tacitly informed by the voices of friends, colleagues, and respected others, the first and second authors have a conversation with and between themselves, and with readers. This is conducted around the presence of a boxed-text voice, written more formally and rhetorically by the first author. The main story is the authors’ critical reaction to selected aspects of the “Tolichist” voice. This voice is regarded as promoting epistemic violence toward critical and creative analytical autoethnographers, in the areas of relational ethics and methodology. The other related—back, subsidiary, and implicit—stories emerging include alienation from the insidious cultural backdrop of patriarchy and misogyny; two conceptions of “autonomy”; the development of a neophyte critical autoethnographer; colonization and resistance; the bifurcation of assumptions about autoethnographic writing; and the importance of philosophy for autoethnographic scholarship. The article ends in a meta-reflexive exchange between both authors about its content.
Troubling Tolichism in Several Voices: Resisting Epistemic Violence in Creative Analytical and Critical Autoethnographic Practice
Alec Grant is the recipient of the Inaugural Lifetime Contribution Award, presented at the Seventh International Conference of Autoethnography (ICAE), on July 21, 2020, “in recognition of making a significant contribution to the development and nurturance of the field of autoethnography, and those working within it.” email: alecgrant32@yahoo.co.uk
Susan Young is a BAFTA-nominated, internationally acclaimed animation director. She is currently a postgraduate student at the Royal College of Art, researching a practice-based PhD, entitled Bearing Witness: Autoethnographic Animation and the Metabolism of Trauma. email: susan.young@network.rca.ac.uk website: www.susanyounganimation.com
Alec Grant, Susan Young; Troubling Tolichism in Several Voices: Resisting Epistemic Violence in Creative Analytical and Critical Autoethnographic Practice. Journal of Autoethnography 1 January 2022; 3 (1): 103–117. doi: https://doi.org/10.1525/joae.2022.3.1.103
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