This introductory essay introduces the themes of the gathering at the 20th International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry that gave rise to this special issue, and frames the ten contributed articles with four intersecting themes related to autoethnographic inquiry: autoethnography as making space, embodied futurity, intergenerational responsibility, and resistance.
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DenzinN. K. (2010). The qualitative manifesto: A call to arms. Routledge.
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