My Auto/Ethnographic Dilemma: Who Owns the Story?

Barton, Bernadette

doi:10.1007/s11133-011-9197-x

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“…I initiated this new project in part to understand the cultural, temporal, and national specificity of political homophobia in different African nations and to undermine racist assumptions that Africans are homophobic (Epprecht 2008). Although I am not currently "in the field" in the ways Barton (2011), González-López (2011, and Rupp and Taylor (2011) are, I am reminded of how representational ethics affect qualitative researchers engaged in conventional fieldwork and those of us who are not in the field (Einwohner 2011). In my current research on political homophobia in sub-Saharan African nations, I remain mindful of how digging in SWAPO's past for evidence of homophobic rhetoric has revived some of the same ethical dilemmas that emerged in my ethnographic research on LGBT organizing in Namibia and South Africa.…”

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Representing Gender and Sexual Dissidence in Southern Africa

Currier

2011

Qual Sociol

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In this article, I discuss the contours of representational ethics in qualitative research. "Representational ethics" refers to a set of principles governing how qualitative researchers portray research participants and the social, cultural, and political contexts research participants inhabit. Using African and postcolonial feminist theorizing, I explore the representational-ethical principles guiding my ethnographic investigation of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender organizing in Namibia and South Africa.

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Representing Gender and Sexual Dissidence in Southern Africa

Currier

2011

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“…Ethnographic research often raises questions about co-mingled data, and this is exacerbated in autoethnography as a personal story inevitably involves other people and so is also, to some extent, their story (Barton, 2011). For some, attempts to resolve these issues revolve around questions of informed consent -how to ensure it and when to achieve it (Tolich, 2010).…”

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Revise, resubmit and reveal? An autoethnographer’s story of facing the challenges of revealing the self through publication

Dashper

2015

Current Sociology

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This article presents a story of writing, revising and publishing an autoethnography of sporting injury. Using extracts from peer review comments and personal reflections both on these reviews and on the process more broadly, I show that although autoethnography can be a very challenging, even troubling, experience for the author, it can also be rewarding and empowering when editors and reviewers offer supportive and constructive comments and suggestions. I argue that greater consideration needs to be given to the aftermath of publication of autoethnographic accounts and call for wider debate about the ethics of asking authors to reveal more about their personal lives and weaknesses in the pursuit of academic goals. The article offers would-be autoethnographers one account of the writing, revising and publishing process in order to explore a number of relevant issues that arise when an author chooses an autoethnographic approach for conducting and presenting research.

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“…R.V., for example, performed Mary Poppins' "A Spoonful of Sugar" with flour that she cut with a giant razor blade and snorted through a straw made out of PVC piping. Still, this was probably the way they made themselves most vulnerable, and we tried our best, in the tradition of ethical fieldwork practices, to tell an important part of the story without doing damage to their lives (Ellis 2007;Guillemin and Gillam 2004;Punch 1986;Barton 2011;Currier 2011;Einwohner 2011;González-López 2011).…”

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Going Back and Giving Back: The Ethics of Staying in the Field

Rupp

Taylor

2011

Qual Sociol

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This article analyzes the benefits and ethical dilemmas of going back and continuing to write about the troupe of drag queens featured in our book, Drag Queens at the 801 Cabaret. The benefits include providing the drag queens the opportunity to revise and add to the stories we told about them and, through deepening friendships, changing the balance of power among us. Challenges include dealing with responses to the book, including those of family members, and conflicts over the royalties we shared with the troupe. Despite the pitfalls, going back contributes to public sociology by continuing conversations about research findings.One day, out of the blue, seven years after the publication of our book, Drag Queens at the 801 Cabaret (Rupp and Taylor 2003), we received an email from a Key West resident we don't know: "Great book. I have what might appear to be a dumb question; do you have a favorite drag queen currently performing at the 801?" he asked. It was a question we could not have answered had we not remained "in the field" since we finished the project, and it reminded us how much staying involved with the drag queens we studied has shaped what we continue to write. Most of the time, the relationship between researchers and the researched ends when the project is finished-or, in the case of feminist research, participatory action research, or other methods sensitive to ethical responsibility to the researched-when the final product is shared with the subjects of the research. But sometimes the relationship continues, either Qual Sociol (2011) 34:483-496

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My Auto/Ethnographic Dilemma: Who Owns the Story?

Cited by 29 publications

References 19 publications

Representing Gender and Sexual Dissidence in Southern Africa

Representing Gender and Sexual Dissidence in Southern Africa

Revise, resubmit and reveal? An autoethnographer’s story of facing the challenges of revealing the self through publication

Going Back and Giving Back: The Ethics of Staying in the Field

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