ABSTRACT

Using an autoethnographic approach, this article focuses on the experiences of two male dance educators/researchers living with/through terminal cancer. Autoethnographers analyze their ‘unique life experiences in the context of the social and cultural institutions that have shaped the world the researcher inhabits.’ Drawn from a larger research project, Dance Educators Living With/Through Cancer (DELC), this collaborative duoethnography comprises the co-authors’ self-narrative accounts of life with cancer, which were analyzed thematically. The themes presented center on the public and private aspects of living with/through cancer and reflect the authors’ cancer experiences along with their social, emotional and physical dis-ease arising from living cancer lives. Explication of resultant impacts on both personal and professional identities seeks to support others with terminal disease in order to lead reflective and meaningful lives while dying.

摘要

本文使用自我民族志方法，重点关注两名男性舞蹈教育者/研究人员患有/通过晚期癌症的经历。民族志学家分析了他们“在塑造了研究人员居住的世界的社会和文化机构背景下的独特生活经历”。该协作式双民族志来自一个更大的研究项目，癌症患者/癌症患者生活 (DELC)，包括共同作者对癌症生活的自我叙述，并进行了主题分析。所呈现的主题集中于癌症患者的公共和私人方面，并反映了作者的癌症经历以及他们因癌症生活而引起的社会、情感和身体疾病。