• Martyna Napierska

  • university of edinburgh and queen margaret university

  • mnapier2@ed.ac.uk

what i write:

In the past I have ethnographically explored the connections between political agency, community, identity, and migration, in an effort to understand the ways in which communities establish their political presence in online, and everyday physical spaces. Currently I'm exploring the role that diaries, journals and memoirs play in the creation of our writing selves, as well as our politically-present selves. I engage in autoethnographic methods of research, observing my own journey of writing, to pose questions relating to agency, identity formation, gender, and the public self.

why i write:

I write to understand the spaces which I occupy in the world, and how they form who I am. I write to explore and understand my agency in the creation and co-creation of the public space. I write to make sense of the need to write, which has been fundamental in the creation of my self, both as the researcher and as the individual (who are one and the same). Most of all, I write to connect with others in meaningful dialogue, which propels the solitary process of writing, forward. 

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