The Emotional Geographies of Being Stranded Due to COVID-19: A Poetic Autoethnography of an International Doctoral Student

This poetic critical autoethnography paper studies my own experiences of disrupted mobility as a Vietnamese doctoral student in New Zealand who was stuck in Vietnam. Through the lens of space and place, I investigate the issues of sense of belonging and sense of place that were reconfigured in diffe...

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Published in:Cultural studies, critical methodologies critical methodologies, 2022-02, Vol.22 (1), p.66-75
Main Author: Phan, Anh Ngoc Quynh
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Autoethnography
COVID-19
Mobility
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Summary:This poetic critical autoethnography paper studies my own experiences of disrupted mobility as a Vietnamese doctoral student in New Zealand who was stuck in Vietnam. Through the lens of space and place, I investigate the issues of sense of belonging and sense of place that were reconfigured in different spaces. The article highlights my agency to reinforce and reconnect with my sense of belonging. As the article focuses on immobility, it challenges the mobility bias in international education scholarship, arguing that new forms of mobility can be produced out of immobility and that identity reconstruction can be enabled through respatialization.
ISSN:1532-7086
1552-356X
DOI:10.1177/15327086211054049