Book chapter
Almost always clouds: stitching a map of belonging
Wayfinding and Critical Autoethnography, pp.151-167
ICQI Foundations and Futures in Qualitative Inquiry, Routledge
2021
Abstract
In this chapter I outline how a map drawn in 1841 by Ngāi Tahu, a Māori iwi (tribe), inspired me to pick up the needle. Adopted, I discovered at the age of 30 that I have Ngāi Tahu ancestors and I am on a journey to repair my sense of not-belonging using my creative practice of embroidery. In the map, the men turned their oral knowledge into colonial knowledge, but the map itself is joyously strange, a visible entanglement of knowledges. In response, I embroidered my own map of Christchurch, Aotearoa New Zealand, stitching my childhood belonging. In this exploration I use the idea of wayfinding (Dening, 2004; Ingold, 2011), moving towards an uncertain destination without compass or map. Critical autoethnography (Holman Jones, 2018) as a decolonizing methodology guides me as I work to undermine Western essentialisms around space, body, and mind (Smith, 2012, 2014), stitching a map that may help guide others.
Details
- Title
- Almost always clouds: stitching a map of belonging
- Authors
- Christine Rogers (Corresponding Author) - RMIT University
- Contributors
- Fetaui Iosefo (Editor) - University of AucklandStacy Holman Jones (Editor) - Monash UniversityAnne Harris (Editor) - RMIT University
- Publication details
- Wayfinding and Critical Autoethnography, pp.151-167
- Series
- ICQI Foundations and Futures in Qualitative Inquiry
- Publisher
- Routledge
- DOI
- 10.4324/9780429325410-15; 10.4324/9780429325410
- ISBN
- 9780429325410
- Organisation Unit
- School of Business and Creative Industries
- Language
- English
- Record Identifier
- 99996898402621
- Output Type
- Book chapter
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