Embodying otherness, reconsidering illness: an autoethnographic phenomenological approach

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Paper presented in the panel Know07: Autoethnography as an (uncertain) methodological experiment: suturing personal and collective experiences.

Convened by Eleonora Narvselius (Lund University) and Fran Lloyd (Kingston University London)

This paper offers an account of a lived experience of cancer and how illness—as a disruptive event—enables philosophical reflection and the exploration of ‘other’ ways of being-in-the-world. Based on my lived experience of becoming ‘chimera’, I address the concept of alterity through an embodied perspective. I drew upon phenomenological explorations of radical illness experience that provide insights into forms of embodiment that expand and enrich biomedical views of the body. Through autoethnographic video material collected over ten years of cancer treatments, dance performances and creative embodied practices, I ask what the kind of epistemology that can emerge from the incorporation of such radical complexity, I aim to provide an example of how an autoethnographic phenomenological approach can be used to explore profound biopsychosocial and somatic transformations.

Periode	9. jun. 2023
Begivenhedstitel	SIEF2023 Living Uncertainty
Begivenhedstype	Konference
Placering	Brno, TjekkietVis på kort
Grad af anerkendelse	International