Frozen Bodies
This essay presents a visual journal that I created for a field season on Thwaites Glacier, Antarctica, as a way both to record states of dissociation/depersonalization and track my gender identity. Drawing on autoethnography as a method of inquiry, I created a pocket-sized journal of body outlines...
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crunicaliforniap:10.1525/joae.2024.5.2.241 2024-05-12T07:56:36+00:00 Frozen Bodies Case, Elizabeth 2024 http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/joae.2024.5.2.241 https://online.ucpress.edu/joae/article-pdf/5/2/241/813681/joae.2024.5.2.241.pdf en eng University of California Press Journal of Autoethnography volume 5, issue 2, page 241-252 ISSN 2637-5192 Communication Anthropology journal-article 2024 crunicaliforniap https://doi.org/10.1525/joae.2024.5.2.241 2024-04-18T08:35:28Z This essay presents a visual journal that I created for a field season on Thwaites Glacier, Antarctica, as a way both to record states of dissociation/depersonalization and track my gender identity. Drawing on autoethnography as a method of inquiry, I created a pocket-sized journal of body outlines and used oil pastels to document my embodied and emotional responses to conducting fieldwork. I reflect on how my visual journal helped me understand how my body responded to living and working in extreme conditions, how my work and body relate to one another, and how the creation and completion of this journal gave me agency over my experiences of dissociation and queerness. Through this account, I aim to contribute to the growing literature on the personal and political dimensions of polar research—critical glaciology—as well as to demonstrate the potential of autoethnographic methods to facilitate embodied ways of knowing in deep field contexts. Article in Journal/Newspaper Antarc* Antarctica Thwaites Glacier University of California Press Thwaites Glacier ENVELOPE(-106.750,-106.750,-75.500,-75.500) Journal of Autoethnography 5 2 241 252 |
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This essay presents a visual journal that I created for a field season on Thwaites Glacier, Antarctica, as a way both to record states of dissociation/depersonalization and track my gender identity. Drawing on autoethnography as a method of inquiry, I created a pocket-sized journal of body outlines and used oil pastels to document my embodied and emotional responses to conducting fieldwork. I reflect on how my visual journal helped me understand how my body responded to living and working in extreme conditions, how my work and body relate to one another, and how the creation and completion of this journal gave me agency over my experiences of dissociation and queerness. Through this account, I aim to contribute to the growing literature on the personal and political dimensions of polar research—critical glaciology—as well as to demonstrate the potential of autoethnographic methods to facilitate embodied ways of knowing in deep field contexts. |
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