Auto/ethnography: A Transformative Research Paradigm

Qutoshi, Sadruddin Bahadur

doi:10.3126/dsaj.v9i0.14027

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“…We look into issues of urban contestation as both inhabitants and researchers. Since we experience the city ourselves, we did not disconnect our observations from the empirical data sources on which we relied; instead, we combined them to produce an auto/ethnographic analysis (Qutoshi, 2015). As qualitative researchers, we used an inductive-grounded theory approach (Pulla, 2014), using primary and secondary resources to reach an answer to our hypothesis.…”

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“…The data analysis relied on content analysis as we navigated through literature and complemented it with our findings from the survey, interviews, field observations and ethnographic work, to gain an in-depth understanding of the subject at hand (Baur, 2019;Qutoshi, 2015). A lot of the data was obtained from internet sources, specifically from social media outlets.…”

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confidence: 99%

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Enclaving the City; New Models of Containing the Urban Populations: A Case Study of Cairo

Ashoub

Elkhateeb²

2021

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This article builds on theoretical foundations from enclave urbanism, authoritarian planning and neoliberal urbanisation to explore contemporary socio-spatial transformation(s) happening in Cairo, Egypt. Relying on a nationwide road development project, inner-city neighbourhoods in Cairo are turning into urban enclaves, whereby populations are being separated by a multiplicity of transport-related infrastructure projects. As these rapid planning processes are occurring, our article aims to explain why these developments are crucial and unique in the context of the post-Arab Spring cities. We argue that the new road infrastructure is creating a spatially and socially fragmented city and transforming the urban citizenry into a controllable and navigable body. We use an inductive approach to investigate the effects of the new road infrastructure and its hegemonic outcomes on the city. On a conceptual level, we propose that the enclaving of the city is a containment method that has erupted since the mass mobilisations of the Arab Spring. In doing so, we use qualitative analysis to explain empirical evidence showing how the city is being transformed into nodes of enclaves, where communities are getting separated from one another via socio-spatial fault lines.

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Enclaving the City; New Models of Containing the Urban Populations: A Case Study of Cairo

Ashoub

Elkhateeb²

2021

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“…The methodological approach (Fig. 2) adopted is based on 'dialectical and critical reflexivity' [145], 'critical realism' [146], 'phenomenological' [147,148], 'existentialist' [149]and an approach of more recent origin which the author holds combines all of the above mentioned approaches an 'autoethnographic research' approach [150] The type of research sample that this study deals with can also be called as a 'discourse analyses' and here the study follows an 'abductive' approach to analyse the discourse by 'moving back and front amongst empirical data, research literature and developing theory' to have an understanding of the structures and apparatuses that influences the way researches are done. The researches selected are individually approached by the author and by 'interrogating, deconstructing and decentring' [151] each research is assessed of its connection to the reality on the ground level and the extent to which the researches have a pragmatic heuristic value.…”

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Is it Heuristics in Use or ‘Ritualistic and Instrumentalist’ in Purpose? Neoliberal Philosophy and the Use of KAPS (Knowledge, Attitude and Practise Surveys) in a Least Developed Nation

Chakravartty¹

2018

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Background:Isms affect the way we think, define, approach and seek to understand and solve any particular issue or condition. The particular ism that prevails currently has been labeled as neoliberalism. Here the ways that researchers use KAPS for various health issues or conditions and the extent to which it is connected to the existing reality along with its pragmatic utility are assessed. Based on how heuristics is conceptualized the use of KAPs is heuristics in use. The primary task of this article embarks is on determining whether the researches using KAPS has any heuristic purpose or is it just fulfilling some self- centered ritualistic and instrumentalist objective. The focus here is on Nepal but that does not mean that the arguments made here is not applicable to other nations that have similar socio-economic conditions.Methods/ Findings:The data selected here are researches done by an epistemic community presented in two national conferences. The methodology followed is based on dialectical reflexivity and the approach adopted is auto-ethnographic. The dominance of procrustean, atomistic, dehistoricized, reductionist and individualist philosophy that deemphasizes structural relations is seen. The incorporation of neoliberal values has created a trend where researches seem to solely serve ritualistic and instrumentalist purpose.

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“…The postmodern paradigm is viewed as a window for autoethnographers to look into self and other minds through subjective lenses so that researchers' narratives can capture inaccessible and ineffable realities (e.g., beliefs, attitudes, values, emotions), and present them using various forms of logic and genres (Luitel, 2012;Qutoshi, 2015). Dialectical, poetic, narrative, and metaphorical are some of them.…”

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Autoethnography: Writing lives and telling stories

Luitel

Dahal

2021

Journal of Transformative Praxis

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Autoethnography covers a wide range of narrative representations, thereby bridging the gap of the boundaries by expressing autoethnographers’ painful and gainful lived experiences. These representations arise from local stories, vignettes, dialogues, and role plays by unfolding action, reaction, and interaction in the form of self-narration. Likewise, the autoethnographic texts must exhibit the autoethnographers’ critical reflections on the overall process of the inquiry. These exhibitions shall alert the autoethnographers’ research ethics, reflexivity, alternative modes of representation, inquiry, and storytelling. The original articles in this issue that rises from the domain of critical social theories within the various ranges of theoretical perspectives include journeying through informing, reforming, and transforming teacher education; critical ethnographic research tradition; a critical and political reading of the excerpts of myths; climate change education and its interface with indigenous knowledge and general traits of the participants as transformed teachers.

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Auto/ethnography: A Transformative Research Paradigm

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Cited by 25 publications

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Enclaving the City; New Models of Containing the Urban Populations: A Case Study of Cairo

Enclaving the City; New Models of Containing the Urban Populations: A Case Study of Cairo

Is it Heuristics in Use or ‘Ritualistic and Instrumentalist’ in Purpose? Neoliberal Philosophy and the Use of KAPS (Knowledge, Attitude and Practise Surveys) in a Least Developed Nation

Autoethnography: Writing lives and telling stories

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