Living in Riverhill: A Postcritical Challenge to the Production of a Neoliberal Success Story

This chapter is about the work of understanding our experiences of reading and living in Riverhill. As we reflect on what we tell here as our beginning and share our journeys with critical service-learning, we find that postcritical ethnography (Noblit, Flores, & Murillo, 2004) resonates most with us in the way we understand ourselves. A postcritical orientation moves with us across this chapter in many ways. Our commitments to postcritical work provide us with a way to frame our situatedness and our ethnographic research. Postcritical work requires an interrogation of power across structure, discourse, and practice, recursive reflexivity, and whenever possible, relationships of reciprocity in work with community and research. [authors]