Recalculating… Hiphopography and Decentring Hegemonic Scholarship I Haupt (AAAL ,2022)
Channel: Adam Haupt
Date: 2022-04-06

Presentation by Adam Haupt at the American Association of Applied Linguistics Conference (2022). Colloquium: 'Writing right: Autoethnographic stories that interrogate and contest injustice done to us and to others'.
Presenters:
Ari Sherris, Texas A&M University-Kingsville
Muzna Awayed Awayed-Bishara, Tel Aviv University
Nelson Flores, University of Pennsylvania, USA 
Adam Haupt, University of Cape Town, SA
Tommaso Milani, Gothenburg University, SWEDEN

Colloquium description:
The voices in this colloquium raise questions about our entanglements as applied linguists in a troubled world. These are the personal stories that are sometimes hidden behind more conventional  teaching, research, scholarship and projects, however iconoclastic and unconventional we may have constructed ourselves in these endeavors and the endeavors themselves. We attempt a reflexivity beyond what we have shared in  journals, edited volumes, conferences, and teaching vignettes to date. Autoethnography is our lens for a few reasons. First, it is situated and lived experience and encounter, action and interaction as is ethnography. Autoethnography and its umbrella—ethnography—present opportunities to share journal notes, photos, notes to ourselves, bits of conversation, even poems and drawings often as ensembles of sign making or meaning making that remain part of us but have been left behind (Adams, Jones, & Ellis, 2015; Blackledge & Creese, 2019). We attempt to share what has been beyond reach of our public, professional identities as applied linguists. Injustice done to us and to others runs through and across the colloquium tying us to one another—but so does difference. Our aim as autoethnographers is to bring forward a heuristics of the heart that both challenges master narratives of sameness and difference and simplistic binaries around independence and interdependence in our ways of knowing and habits of mind. In our stories we describe or picture anxieties, fears, veils, exclusion, erasures, microaggressions, racism, apartheid, patriarchy, denationalization, genocide, and occupation together with some painful double-binds and pitfalls we have experienced in applied linguistic fieldwork. In what we share, we write right and thereby attempt to embody the change we call into being.