Abstract
This essay chronicles a tale of personal and academic transformation triggered by the rich mentoring spirit of Bud Goodall. Bud encouraged me discover how a research project on male executives and work-life balance was intricately intertwined with my familial and personal experiences. The essay describes a “Second Spring”—a period of reawakening after the full cycle of ethnographic seasons in which researchers identify blind spots in their scholarship and ways of being. In this Second Spring, I find myself transforming my commitments to gender equity from a place of evidence collection and self-righteous upset to a place of dialogic conversation and choice.
| Original language | English (US) |
|---|---|
| Pages (from-to) | 17-24 |
| Number of pages | 8 |
| Journal | Qualitative Inquiry |
| Volume | 22 |
| Issue number | 1 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - Jan 1 2016 |
Keywords
- autoethnography
- ethnography
- narrative
- transformation
- writing as method of inquiry
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Anthropology
- Social Sciences (miscellaneous)