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<p>This paper offers a critically informed autoethnography of my journey from a rural village in central Vietnam to doctoral studies in Indonesia, supported by the KNB Scholarship. Drawing on personal narrative, I explore how socio-economic hardship, cross-cultural encounters, and scholarly aspiration shaped my academic identity. Situating myself within the growing field of critical autoethnography, I engage works by Chang, Holman Jones, and Smith &amp; Watson to reflect on the power of life writing to interrogate knowledge production, decolonisation, and scholarly becoming from the Global South. Through scenes from village schooling, exchange studies in Poland, and doctoral research in Indonesia, I demonstrate how academic life can be both an act of resistance and a source of renewal. This narrative contributes to life writing scholarship by illustrating how transnational education and reflexive storytelling challenge dominant models of theory, method, and legitimacy. My story is not only one of transformation, but also an ongoing inquiry into what it means to write knowledge from the margins and to belong, differently, within global academia.</p>

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Becoming from the Margins: An Autoethnography of a Vietnamese Scholar’s Transnational Journey

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    2026年6月18日

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  • Nguyen Minh Tri,
  • Dadang Rahmat Hidayat,
  • Herlina Agustin,
  • Dandi Supriadi

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This paper offers a critically informed autoethnography of my journey from a rural village in central Vietnam to doctoral studies in Indonesia, supported by the KNB Scholarship. Drawing on personal narrative, I explore how socio-economic hardship, cross-cultural encounters, and scholarly aspiration shaped my academic identity. Situating myself within the growing field of critical autoethnography, I engage works by Chang, Holman Jones, and Smith & Watson to reflect on the power of life writing to interrogate knowledge production, decolonisation, and scholarly becoming from the Global South. Through scenes from village schooling, exchange studies in Poland, and doctoral research in Indonesia, I demonstrate how academic life can be both an act of resistance and a source of renewal. This narrative contributes to life writing scholarship by illustrating how transnational education and reflexive storytelling challenge dominant models of theory, method, and legitimacy. My story is not only one of transformation, but also an ongoing inquiry into what it means to write knowledge from the margins and to belong, differently, within global academia.