Borderland negotiations of personal–professional being and belonging: A duoethnography

Abstract

The following article details the authors’ dialogic exploration of the joys and tensions inscribed in their personal–professional negotiations of being and belonging within and transcending borders of ‘language’, ‘culture’, ‘identity’, ‘place’, ‘space’, ‘community’ and ‘time’, as well as in their experiences with duoethnographic inquiry. The authors dialogue, reflect upon (individually and together) and, ultimately, reconceptualize and reconstruct their borderland narratives of negotiated identity and community membership, emerging transformed by the process. The authors aim to prompt readers to engage with and reflect upon both the contents of the study as well as upon their own contexts and lived experiences, and for readers to engage with others in similar fashion.