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On Wed, Jul 12, 2023 at 10:27 PM Erica Stone <erica.m.stone at gmail.com>
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> *Cell: *205-567-9847
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> From: Erica Stone <erica.m.stone at gmail.com>
> Date: Sun, Jul 9, 2023 at 7:03 PM
> Subject: #CFP: Edited Collection on Positionality in Writing Studies
> To: <attw-l at attw.org>
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> Submit your chapter proposal for our new edited collection on
> positionality in writing studies!
>
> SUMMARY
> We are seeking proposals for chapters about your experience with
> positionality in research, work, and/or teaching. Chapters should be
> 2,000-3,000 words long, written in a first-person narrative style, and
> based on lived experience. We are developing this collection in preparation
> for the WAC Clearinghouse Practices & Possibilities book series, with an
> audience of graduate students in mind. The collection will be an
> accessible, real take on how we deal with positionality in our
> work—including both mess and success.
>
> Submit your proposal (up to 500 words, not including citations) to the
> following email: positionality.stories at gmail.com.
>
> WORKING TITLE
>
> Storied Practices: Positionality in Writing Studies
>
> EDITORS
>
> Kristine Acosta, Michelle Cowan, Rebecca Rickly, Sierra Sinor, Nancy
> Small, Erica M. Stone
>
>
> LINK TO FULL CFP
>
>
> https://docs.google.com/document/d/1NfLdEmx8diFnVIEC9KjXpcwXXv5qgjtJ00P4U8-8htE/edit?usp=sharing
>
> MOTIVATION AND RATIONALE
> Graduate programs in Writing Studies and in Communication Studies value
> research: almost every program requires at least one course on methods and
> methodologies for knowledge making. Research capabilities empower us.
> However, if we aren’t careful, research can dehumanize and colonize
> (Agboka, 2014; Tuhiwai Smith, 2012; Walton, 2016). At all stages of the
> process, one aspect of better ethical practice is asking ourselves to
> address positionality, the embodied and contextualized forms influencing
> (and possibly biasing) what we hear/see/do when conducting, analyzing, and
> publishing our projects (Rowe, 2014). Despite growing awareness of these
> risks and opportunities, however, positionality-as-a-practice is less
> directly discussed in our graduate programs, let alone in the research
> publications themselves.
>
> We want to continue shifting the research paradigm toward engaging
> positionality-as-practice. Although writing and communication fields have
> been attending to critical consideration of these issues (e.g., Lockett,
> Ruiz, Sanchez, & Carter, 2021), analysis tends to revisit the work of
> others rather than inviting authors to speak to their own projects. As a
> result, teachers and learners lack insider-narrated models for how
> positionality operates in research. We need what Kirsch and Ritchie
> (2008) call a "rigorously reflexive examination of ourselves" (p. 143). To
> best address that gap, we turn to story as a reflective vehicle for this
> collection. Storytelling creates spaces outside the strict procedural lines
> of production and allows us to reveal our situated ponderings as
> individuals engaged in complicated activities. Contemporary scholarship
> continues to amplify the value of storywork as experts elucidate theories
> and practices for it as a methodology (see, for example, Archibald,
> Lee-Morgan, & De Santolo, 2019; Martinez, 2020; Wilson, 2008; Windchief &
> San Pedro, 2019). For this edited collection, we invite you to join in
> shifting the paradigm and to share your story as a means of relating and
> reflecting over your positionality in research-related roles and
> experiences.
>
> PROJECT VISION AND GOALS
>
> We envision this book as a conversation surrounding positionality and the
> lived experiences of researchers and their participants. Using narrative as
> a vehicle, we hope to promote stories that do not shy away from the
> complexities of research. We want to know how others interrogate themselves
> while completing research and the impacts this has on both product and
> person. It is our goal for future readers of this book to be able to refer
> to authentic examples of what the research process looks like and what the
> connection to the researcher looks like within that process. We welcome
> stories that discuss different kinds of positioning, failure, and how
> people find themselves in relation to their work. Reflection on past
> experiences and examples of using positionality in research will be
> especially important within this collection. While the proposal has been
> accepted by WAC Clearinghouse, publication will be contingent upon external
> reviewer feedback. Accepted authors will be expected to revise according to
> reviewer comments.
>
>
> CHAPTER CONTENT
>
> We are seeking proposals for chapters written in a first-person narrative
> and/or reflexive style, planned to be 2,000-3,000 words long. The focus
> should be on lived experience and positionalities rather than on literature
> reviews and/or theory-building. The following topics and questions are
> offered to indicate the kinds of storied practices we hope to cultivate.
>
>
> Their Stories/Our Stories:
>
> -
>
> When conducting research focused on other people’s stories, how do we
> (as researchers, participants, community members) successfully interweave
> or make space for our own stories?
> -
>
> What are the ethical, political, professional, and personal
> implications of the decision to bring ourselves into conversation with the
> ostensible topics and/or communities of the research project?
>
>
> Tensions of Objectivity:
>
> -
>
> If all research (regardless of method/ology) is a story in which we
> are participants, what happens when researchers are trained to distance
> ourselves from the story and take a “disembodied view from nowhere” (Bordo,
> 1993)?
> -
>
> What do we, as researchers, do with the tension between the desire for
> objectivity and the need for our embodied presence?
>
>
> Teaching Positionality:
>
> -
>
> How do we teach positionality?
> -
>
> How do issues of positionality show up in publication, dissertation,
> conferences, and other academic sharing/gathering spaces?
>
>
> Troubling Positionality:
>
> -
>
> How might we extend, question, and otherwise trouble positionality as
> a central concept?
> -
>
> How do we go beyond surface-level acknowledgements of positionality,
> privilege, and power (Walton, Moore, & Jones, 2016; García & Kirsch, 2022)?
>
>
> Positionality as Action:
>
> -
>
> How do we put positionality theory into practice?
> -
>
> Can we break down existing infrastructures and subvert the status quo
> in ways that honor the value of diverse research approaches?
>
>
> SOLICITATION AND REVIEW PROCESSES
>
> We encourage contributions from diverse authors, including
> multiply-marginalized scholars, graduate students, contingent faculty,
> community organizers, and scholars who have chosen to leave academia for
> industry. Our process engages anti-racist reviewing practices as
> recommended by Cagle, et. al. (2021) and in the 2022 special issue of Writers:
> Craft & Context.
> <https://journals.shareok.org/writersccjournal/issue/view/4/12>
>
> TIMELINE
>
> -
>
> October 2, 2023: Proposal deadline
> -
>
> November 6, 2023: Responses sent to all proposers
> -
>
> March 15, 2024: Completed chapters due
> -
>
> May 6, 2024: Preliminary review complete, chapters returned for
> revision
> -
>
> July 8, 2024: Revised chapters due, manuscript proofread and compiled
> -
>
> September 2, 2024: Final manuscript submitted to WAC for external
> review
>
>
> SUBMISSION GUIDELINES FOR CHAPTERS
>
> Please submit your proposal (up to 500 words, not including citations) to
> the following email: positionality.stories at gmail.com.
>
> Include the following information:
>
> -
>
> Name and contact email
> -
>
> Title of the proposed piece
> -
>
> A summary of the chapter’s proposed content (up to 500 words)
> -
>
> Specific answers to these two questions: 1) What led you to suggest
> this chapter for consideration? 2) How does your own positionality play
> into your choice to propose this chapter?
>
>
> Feel free to contact positionality.stories at gmail.com with any questions.
> *—*
> *Erica M. Stone, PhD*
> *Email: *erica.m.stone at gmail.com
> *Cell: *205-567-9847
>
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