Chapter 9 Autoethnography: Situating Personal Sporting Narratives in Socio-Cultural Contexts

Allen‐Collinson, Jacquelyn

doi:10.1108/s1476-2854(2012)0000006012

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“…Sport autoethnographers value the method for its ability to portray lived sporting experiences as well as the emotional geographies of physical culture (e.g. Allen-Collinson, 2012). Autoethnography is also praised by feminist sport scholars given its emphasis on reflexivity and its ability to provide unique insights into lived, gendered sporting experiences (Bolin and Granskog, 2003).…”

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Gender on the ropes: An autoethnographic account of boxing in Tasmania, Australia

Nash

2015

International Review for the Sociology of Sport

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This paper documents how I fought for a place as a boxer in a regional Tasmanian boxing gym over a 30 month period. This work builds on existing ethnographic accounts that argue that, for women, becoming a boxer is more than just a matter of developing a fit body and physical skill -it is a continual project of negotiating gendered identity. Using an analytic autoethnographic methodology and drawing on contemporary theories of masculinity, I share my individual experiences as a boxer and, in turn, reveal the complexities of bodywork and gendered identity within Tasmanian amateur boxing culture. My closing discussion analyses the way in which performances of masculinity were precarious, fragmented and anxious.

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Gender on the ropes: An autoethnographic account of boxing in Tasmania, Australia

Nash

2015

International Review for the Sociology of Sport

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“…Whilst autoethnography is now well-known and accepted within the sociology of sport (e.g. Allen-Collinson, 2012; Allen-Collinson et al, 2018; Humberstone, 2011; Nash, 2017; Sparkes, 2000), autophenomenography may be less familiar. This automethodological approach draws on phenomenological principles such as epoché and reduction to identify and explore core structures or patterns of a researcher’s own experiences of phenomena (see Allen-Collinson, 2009, 2011, for further details).…”

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Weather-wise? Sporting embodiment, weather work and weather learning in running and triathlon

Allen‐Collinson

Jennings

Vaittinen

et al. 2018

International Review for the Sociology of Sport

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Weather experiences are currently surprisingly under-explored and under-theorised in sociology and sport sociology, despite the importance of weather in both routine, everyday life and in recreational sporting and physical–cultural contexts. To address this lacuna, we examine here the lived experience of weather, including ‘weather work’ and ‘weather learning’, in our specific physical–cultural worlds of distance-running, triathlon and jogging in the United Kingdom. Drawing on a theoretical framework of phenomenological sociology, and the findings from five separate auto/ethnographic projects, we explore the ‘weather-worlds’ and weather work involved in our physical–cultural engagement. In so doing, we address ongoing sport sociological concerns about embodiment and somatic, sensory learning and ways of knowing. We highlight how weather work provides a key example of the phenomenological conceptualisation of the mind–body–world nexus in action, with key findings delineating weather learning across the meteorological seasons that contour our British weather-related training.

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“…Anybody who knew about the school, teachers, and context, might easily discover who the teacher was. This can be a serious ethical issue of disclosing the 'other' through my personal stories (Allen-Collinson, 2012). I portrayed some relational experiences of observing my daughter in her play and interpreted it in relation to my childhood and then interrelated to a theory (Capra, 1989).…”

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Autoethnography of “My Autoethnography”

Belbase¹

2017

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The purpose of this paper is to reflect on "My Autoethnography" that I performed during writing dissertation for M.Phil. in Education at a university in Nepal. For this, I reflect on my experience of doing autoethnography with four turning points -a connection to mentors, a presentation of poetic narrative in a class, a proposal for this research, and the dissemination of "My Autoethnography". I present an evocative narrative of 'the parallels' connecting childhood experiences with blissful eternal dance. I analyse it from the perspective of methodological, relational and ethical lenses. I present some merits and caveats of autoethnography as a method of research based on my experience of using the approach. This also helped me to see not only to the past and present, but it also opened my eyes to envision the future in terms of learning and teaching mathematics. The other merit was access to my private world through the construction of thick and rich evocative narratives with a variety of textual expressions and a sense of mental emancipation. The major caveats of this approach were associated with the extent of focus in writing the narratives, vagueness with mystical expression and imaginative connections between the events of different time, an indulgence on personal stories making forceful connection with theories, self-disclosure of sensitive issues, and ethical issues related to the narratives about the others. I conclude the paper with a reflection and poetic reminiscent of 'My Autoethnography'.Keywords: Autoethnography, poetic narrative, mystical narrative, emancipation.Autoethnography (or auto/ethnography) is a form of qualitative research method that uses the researcher's personal experiences as foreground and social-cultural-political context as the background. This approach uses a researcher's personal experience to describe, analyse, interpret, and critique the beliefs, values, and actions acknowledging the self-other relationship through depth of reflective and reflexive evocative narratives of different genres (Adams, Jones, & Ellis, 2015). It is a form of self-study by writing narratives of different genres, for example, stories, poems, dialogues, drama, collage, etc., to name a few that focus on the vivid memories, feelings, thoughts, emotions, angers, griefs, excitements, anxieties, fears, and aha! This paper first exposes my 'self' to the readers with historical accounts of unfolding moments to construct "My Autoethnography". I present and discuss a vignette that that relates my childhood to my daughter's childhood play and relates the parallel to eternal dance of Shiva. I explore some merits and caveats of "My Autoethnography" followed by a brief reflection with poetic evocation. EXPOSING SELF AND REVISITING THE HISTORY My Early Mathematics: Natural MathematicsFor me, the charisma of early mathematics of pebbles and cows of clay models started since spring of 1975 with sprouting blossoms of apricot in front of my house at Karange Kot, Dang, Nepal when I was three years old. I wondere...

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Chapter 9 Autoethnography: Situating Personal Sporting Narratives in Socio-Cultural Contexts

Cited by 43 publications

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Gender on the ropes: An autoethnographic account of boxing in Tasmania, Australia

Gender on the ropes: An autoethnographic account of boxing in Tasmania, Australia

Weather-wise? Sporting embodiment, weather work and weather learning in running and triathlon

Autoethnography of “My Autoethnography”

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Gender on the ropes: An autoethnographic account of boxing in Tasmania, Australia

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Weather-wise? Sporting embodiment, weather work and weather learning in running and triathlon

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