Indigenous, settler, diasporic, and post-colonial: The identities woven through our academic writing

Abstract

A collaboration by four colleagues at varying stages of their careers, this chapter is both polyvocal and autobiographical. It is organized using the concepts of 1) the autobiographical self in which we describe our background and training as scholars, 2) the discoursal self in which we share our thoughts on identity and voice in our writing, and 3) the authorial self in which we reflect on our writing processes and struggles. Each of these "selves" offers a space for possibilities for selfhood. As we describe these aspects of our writing "selves," we explore our positionings as Indigenous, settler, diasporic and post-colonial individuals, and how those identities performatively intertwine with the expectations of our academic contexts.