Confronting myself: Using auto/biography to explore the impact of class and education on the formation of self and identity

Paula Stone

doi:10.3384/rela.2000-7426.ojs1346

Authors

Paula Stone Canterbury Christ Church University

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.3384/rela.2000-7426.ojs1346

Keywords:

Auto/biography, Honneth, recognition, the self, un miraculé

Abstract

In this paper I illustrate how auto/biography, drawing on feminist research methodology, enabled me to chronicle and theorise the lived experience of class relations in the academy. I explain how auto-diegetic auto/biographical doctoral research has provided me with ‘both a mode of representation and a mode of reasoning’ (Richardson, 1997, p. 28) which was therapeutic, reflexive, as well as agentic to help me understand the sense of displacement in the academy and how I used my doctorate to redress that.

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