Wayfinding and Critical Autoethnography

Fetaui Iosefo is the daughter of Sua Muamai Vui Siope and Fuimaono Luse Vui Siope. She is a Professional Teaching Fellow and doctoral candidate in Critical Studies at the University of Auckland at the Manukau campus, New Zealand. Stacy Holman Jones is Professor and Director of the Centre for Theatre and Performance at Monash University in Melbourne, Australia. Her research focuses broadly on performance as socially, culturally, and politically resistive and transformative activity. She specializes in critical qualitative methods, particularly critical autoethnography and critical and feminist theory. Anne Harris is Associate Professor, Principal Research Fellow (RMIT University), and Australian Research Council Future Fellow at RMIT University in Melbourne, Australia. Anne writes and researches in the areas of critical autoethnography, education, gender, creativity, and creative methods. Anne is the Director of Creative Agency (www.creativeresearchhub.com).

Preface: Stars and stones in Aotearoa. Introduction: Critical Autoethnography and/as Wayfinding in the Global South. Section 1: Wayfaring and wayfinding indigeneity in the academy. Chapter 1: Wayfinding as Pasifika, Indigenous and critical autoethnographic knowledge. Chapter 2: Wayfinding Kurahuna. Chapter 3: Wayfinding with aiga (family) - Aiga saili manuia: Family in (re)search of peace. Chapter 4: Wayfinding and decolonising time: Talanoa, activism, and critical autoethnography. Chapter 5: Critical autoethnographic encounters in the moana: Wayfinding the intersections of to’utangata Tonga and indigenous masculinities. Section 2: Wayfinding and way-fairness in the digital age. Chapter 6: The crooked room: Intersectional tap dancing, academic performing, and negotiating black, woman, immigrant. Chapter 7: The neighbourhood(s) inside me: Telling stories of (un)belonging, (im)mobility, temporality and places. Chapter 8: Oceania resistance: Digital autoethnography in the Marianas Archipelago. Chapter 9: Uncovering a performative black feminist wayfinding. Section 3: Wayfinding in the liminal spaces. Chapter 10: Almost always clouds: stitching a map of belonging. Chapter 11: The North Star & the Southern Cross, Chapter 12: Retracing the footprints of a family of teacher wayfinders Chapter 13: Poet tree: A poetic exploration of an immigrant’s journey.