Doing Autoethnography

Pensoneau-Conway, Sandra L.; Adams, Tony; Bolen, Derek M.

doi:10.1007/978-94-6351-158-2_1

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“…In anthropology and cultural studies, auto-ethnography (often also written in the hyphen-less form, autoethnography) seems to be enjoying something of a renaissance. With the publication of new methodological volumes and guides such as Muncey (2010), Denzin (2013), Adams, Jones, and Ellis (2014), Bochner and Ellis (2016), Hughes and Pennington (2016) and Pensoneau-Conway, Adams, and Bolen (2017), the approach of auto-ethnography has never been more vibrant or well informed. The netnographic offshoot, auto-netnography, began as a more introspective extension of netnography in the work of Kozinets and Kedzior (2009) as the participative elements of the original method were adapted to studying the more internal, micro-psychological adjustments for experiencing virtual worlds.…”

Section: Concerning Auto-netnographymentioning

confidence: 99%

Evolving netnography: how brand auto-netnography, a netnographic sensibility, and more-than-human netnography can transform your research

Kozinets

Scaraboto

Parmentier

2018

Journal of Marketing Management

101

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Section: Concerning Auto-netnographymentioning

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Evolving netnography: how brand auto-netnography, a netnographic sensibility, and more-than-human netnography can transform your research

Kozinets

Scaraboto

Parmentier

2018

Journal of Marketing Management

101

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“…. .the presenter keeps drumming, we return to closing our eyes, and take in the magic that is autoethnography.(Pensoneau-Conway et al, 2017: 1)Am I doing this right? Why am I not producing heartfelt and emotionally satisfying epiphanies?…”

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Out of the blue and into it: Autoethnography, emotions and complicated grief

Akehurst

Scott

2021

Qualitative Research

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Autoethnography can be an appropriate method for researching complex emotional experiences. However, the highly self-reflexive processes involved in mining personal data are subject to a set of cultural feeling and display rules, which obscure and interfere with emotional engagement. To illustrate this, we present one author’s account of using autoethnography to research traumatic bereavement. We critically revisit three myths about the method: one negative (autoethnography is narcissistically self-indulgent) and two positive (autoethnographic techniques are therapeutic and autoethnographic writing is authentic). Observing some parallels between topic and method, we suggest that both are complicated and non-linear, following convoluted paths. Autoethnographic tales may defy the social rules of verbal tellability, failing to reveal personal insights or offer moral lessons. We conclude that, while we can admire the autoethnographic endeavour towards ‘heartfelt’ scholarship, this should be tempered by a cautiousness about the costs of digging deep.

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“…Where there is a dearth of guidelines to help researchers engage reflexivity more robustly in pursuit of knowledge construction, on the one hand there is an overabundance of concern for reflexivity and positionality to establish ethical rigor in the qualitativeinterpretive method (Koopman, Watling and LaDonna 2020;Pensoneau-Conway, Adams and Bolen, 2017;Berger 2013). On the other hand, criticism of research for sustaining dominance representation, sexist prejudices, and purportedly speaking to discourage achievements gained in the fights against men's oppression of women has generated resistance to engage with qualitative experiences of abuse men (Ratele et al 2016;Seidler 2006).…”

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Autoethnography, Reflexivity, and Insider Researcher Dynamics: Reflections on Investigating Violence against Men in Intimate Relationships

Rowlands¹

2022

ASR

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Autoethnography is a qualitative research method for relating lived-through personal experiences to a range of existing social representations. It is regarded as self-representation in examining and critiquing dominant representations. While the researcher’s subjectivities are restricted within the ethnographic qualitative framework, autoethnography emphasises this foundation as essential to data collection, interpretation, and analysis in the research process. In this paper, I discuss how my lived-through personal experience of abuse influenced how/why I conceptualised, investigated, and represented the lived experiences of several abused male victims of intimate partner violence in Johannesburg, which are typically ignored in gender- based violence literature. The paper comments on tactics used to negotiate ethical dilemmas as part of a conceptual examination of the benefits of reflexivity and insider positionality to reinforce the self-reflective autoenthgrapahy as a valuable qualitative method.

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Doing Autoethnography

Cited by 9 publications

References 16 publications

Evolving netnography: how brand auto-netnography, a netnographic sensibility, and more-than-human netnography can transform your research

Evolving netnography: how brand auto-netnography, a netnographic sensibility, and more-than-human netnography can transform your research

Out of the blue and into it: Autoethnography, emotions and complicated grief

Autoethnography, Reflexivity, and Insider Researcher Dynamics: Reflections on Investigating Violence against Men in Intimate Relationships

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