On How I Got Through COVID-19 Lockdown: An Autoethnographic Approach to Resilience in Disability

Identifier:  imarina:9291507

Handle: https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11797/imarina9291507

Authors:  Hall, Karen A E; Djurdjevic, Marija; Deusdad, Blanca

Abstract:
I explore how I—a person born with a physical disability living alone in a foreign country—was able to cope with COVID-19 lockdown. I used the autoethnographic method (Chang, 2016) to scrutinize sources of my resilience. Through evocative autoethnography, I reviewed risks/coping strategies recalling the lessons drawn from my childhood in the care of two supportive women. Then, performing analytical autoethnography, I self-assessed my lived experiences through a social science lens. A theoretical validation of my personal story helped me to acknowledge how resilience in my life had been built and was mobilized in the face of the pandemic.