Abstract This Intervention discusses an eight-year collaboration among four feminist geographers using a collective biography methodology to investigate the academy. Beginning from an epistemological-ontological direction rather than a topical one, we used joy as our way “in” to issues around subject formation, intimacy, flows of power, and the care of the self. Using a question and answer format, as though we were being interviewed about our work, we engage with questions about positionality and reflexivity alongside the ways we took up and generated new knowledge using collective biography. We discuss the ways that an affirmative politics informed our research and our ways of working together. We hope that the paper will offer readers new ways to think about auto-ethnographic research practices and autobiography in life writing, feminist selves in the academy, and the intimate nature of close, collaborative work.

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集体传记之旅的反思

摘要 本次干预讨论了四位女权主义地理学家使用集体传记方法调查学院的八年合作。从认识论本体论方向而不是主题方向开始，我们使用快乐作为我们“进入”主题形成、亲密关系、权力流动和自我关怀等问题的方式。使用问答形式，就好像我们正在接受关于我们工作的采访一样，我们参与了关于位置性和反思性的问题，以及我们使用集体传记获取和产生新知识的方式。我们讨论了肯定政治为我们的研究和我们的合作方式提供信息的方式。我们希望这篇论文能为读者提供新的方式来思考生活写作中的自我民族志研究实践和自传，