Claustrophobia: a performative and autoethnographic exploration on knowledge production and social justice

Abstract

In this performative autoethnography, the author, using her own stories as a resource, explores the simultaneity between telling and resisting lived experiences, using performance autoethnography (AE) and performative writing (EP) as a theoretical-methodological framework. Starting from three stories of violence - the author and her mother; of Dona Ana; and Luciana – this article proposes a critical dialogue on the role of knowledge production and medical education; a theorization about the interfaces between academia and the struggle for social justice and the particularities of the experiences excavated in this process. As an autoethnography, the writing of the text demands criticism at the most basic level of relationships – which includes a break with the traditional academic structure.