Visual Autoethnography and Poetic Inquiry as Methodological Survival: Navigating Colonial Academic Structures

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Author(s) / editor(s):
Tracie A. Rogers

Year: 2026

Keywords: survival strategies in academia, creative autoethnography, coloniality of knowledge
Language(s): English

Abstract:
The article examines a Caribbean scholar’s survival within colonial-shaped academia, showing how creative autoethnographic methods (visual art, haiku, poetic inquiry) operate as methodological and emotional scaffolding. Through three paintings and six haikus used analytically, the work documents everyday strategies of methodological endurance that preserve relational, spiritual, and intellectual integrity while navigating Euro‑American performance metrics and institutional contradictions, contributing practical insights to postcolonial methodological innovation.

https://doi.org/10.1177/16094069261430207

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