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Dancing with settlers: Gabriel Baker, ‘Bittersweet Belonging: A Humble Story About Blooms and Bones Available to Purchase’, Departures in Critical Qualitative Research, 14, 3, 2025, pp. 30-54

05Oct25

Abstract: In what follows, I share a story. Emerging from engagement with critical autoethnography and danced movement as methodology during my doctoral research, my story explores the complex terrain of my sense of belonging as a Pākehā, or White woman of settler-colonial descent, in the context of Aotearoa New Zealand. Inspired by scholars who have drawn attention to the power and possibilities of humble approaches to being an academic and doing academic research, I tell my story not to support a grand theory or critique but to answer calls for reflexivity and response-ability among those of White settler-colonial background.


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