Con Artist: Non-Cosplay Participation at Popular Culture Conventions as an Arts-Based Method of Inquiring Into Resistance and the Undoing of Rules

Thomas, M’Balia

dc.contributor.author	Thomas, M’Balia
dc.date.accessioned	2023-05-22T16:39:24Z
dc.date.available	2023-05-22T16:39:24Z
dc.date.issued	2023-05-18
dc.identifier.citation	Thomas, M’Balia. Con Artist: Non-Cosplay Participation at Popular Culture Conventions as an Arts-Based Method of Inquiring Into Resistance and the Undoing of Rules, Qualitative Inquiry, https://doi.org/10.1177/10778004231176095	en_US
dc.identifier.uri	https://hdl.handle.net/1808/34198
dc.description	This article has been accepted for publication in Qualitative Inquiry.	en_US
dc.description.abstract	I conduct an inquiry into my participation as an African American woman at two popular culture conventions, the 2017 Dragon Con (Atlanta) and the 2018 annual general meeting of the Jane Austen Society of North America (Kansas City). Through a methodological approach to Con-ing—attending a popular culture convention—as arts-based inquiry and utilizing techniques of autoethnography, I inquire into my participation in spaces that, while intended to be havens of adult play, reproduce and reinforce discourses and material practices that can limit the play and participation of marginalized Others.	en_US
dc.publisher	SAGE Publications	en_US
dc.rights	© The Author(s) 2023. Reuse is restricted to non-commercial and no derivative uses.	en_US
dc.subject	Popular culture conventions	en_US
dc.subject	Autoethnography	en_US
dc.subject	Discourse	en_US
dc.subject	Politics and culture	en_US
dc.subject	Arts-based inquiry	en_US
dc.subject	Writing as method of inquiry	en_US
dc.title	Con Artist: Non-Cosplay Participation at Popular Culture Conventions as an Arts-Based Method of Inquiring Into Resistance and the Undoing of Rules	en_US
dc.type	Article	en_US
kusw.kuauthor	Thomas, M’Balia
kusw.kudepartment	Curriculum and Teaching	en_US
dc.identifier.doi	10.1177/10778004231176095	en_US
dc.identifier.orcid	https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4354-2796	en_US
kusw.oaversion	Scholarly/refereed, author accepted manuscript	en_US
kusw.oapolicy	This item meets KU Open Access policy criteria.	en_US
dc.rights.accessrights	openAccess	en_US

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