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This chapter explores the difficulties I have experienced moving from Mexico City, the largest metropolitan area in Mexico, to a provincial capital in the centre part of the country, the city of Aguascalientes. In order to do that, I present a short narrative of certain incidents that show how I have sorted out the journey in a search of developing a sense of belonging. This is an autoethnography exercise where I follow what Ellis (2004) calls narrative analysis, which “assumes that a good story we itself is theoretical…. When people tell their stories, they employ analytic techniques to interpret their worlds” (pp. 195–196). I have also realized that, like Richardson and St. Pierre argue (2005), writing is a way of knowing because it was due to the introspection process I experienced as I was writing that I came to understand how much my story was mostly related to gender issues.
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Ellis, C. (2004). The ethnographic I: A methodological novel about teaching and doing autoethnography. Walnut Creek, CA: AltaMira.
Richardson, L., & St. Pierre, E. A. (2005). Writing: A method of inquiry. In N. Denzin & Y. Lincoln (Eds.), Handbook of qualitative research (pp. 959–978). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
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Calva, S.B. (2016). From Impressionism to Realism. In: Tilley-Lubbs, G.A., Calva, S.B. (eds) Re-Telling Our Stories. Imagination and Praxis. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6300-567-8_8
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