Toward an applied communication relational inqueery: autoethnography, co-constructed narrative, and relational futures

<p>Born out of my personal relationships with others and the field of communication, particularly as it overlaps and intersects with the field of personal relationship research, this project begins with an exploration of research practices personal relationship inquiry, offers a queer critique on research and relating, and forwards a queer applied communication approach--relational inqueery. This dissertation was directed by three goals: (a) creating a space and terrain for queer relationships in the study of personal relationships and relational communication, (b) founding and beginning to further a field of relational inqueery, and (c) offering an applied communication approach within queer relational studies that stands to benefit both the field and the queer on social and personal fronts. To those ends, I offer a queer criticism of research and relating, engendering a space for queer relationships. I then offer a meta-autoethnographic approach of personal and co-constructed narratives and writing-stories to engage, contour, and nuance the aforementioned space for queer relationships imagining new ways of thinking about research in the study of personal relationships and relational futures. This project contributes to the fields of personal relationship research, communication, and qualitative inquiry.</p>

Name thesis:degree_name

Ph.D.

Level thesis:degree_level

Open Access Dissertation

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Communication

Year dc:date.available

2012

Author dc:creator

• Bolen, Derek M.

Contributors dc:contributor

• Sandra Pensoneau-Conway

• co-constructed narrative, meta-autoethnography, personal relationships, queer theory, relational communication, relational inqueery
• Communication

Repository record dc:identifier

https://digitalcommons.wayne.edu/oa_dissertations/531

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:digitalcommons.wayne.edu:oa_dissertations-1530