Presenters

Faith in Ambiguity

My talk considers how faith in ambiguity -- in experiences and knowledges that have multiple meanings/interpretations -- guides my current auto/ethnographic practice. Embracing, welcoming, and applauding ambiguity in our auto/ethnographic research and accounts highlights how our work -- and the cultural work of others, all of us -- is creative and/or aesthetic (rather than purely evidential), has multiple meanings and interpretations (rather than a single, true point of view), and is thoroughly partisan and political (rather than objective and neutral) in its deployment. Having faith in ambiguity means resisting codification, singularity, authority, and censorship. Having faith in ambiguity means making and taking a leap of faith: toward generativity, creativity, and passion.