Performing Autoethnography: An Embodied Methodological Praxis

Spry, Tami

doi:10.1177/107780040100700605

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“…Central to this methodology is the acknowledgment that research is never impartial but an assemblage with its own effects on the event researched comprising of researchers, data, methods and contexts [42]. This is in line with the increasing skepticism in the postmodern world regarding the objectivity of the researcher, the generalization of knowledge claims, and the realist agendas where the researcher is put above the subject and the method over the subject matter [43]. In keeping with the ontological turn, we have tried, as Viveiros de Castro advocates [44], taking seriously the things the people we study tell us, while acknowledging, at the same time, that we inevitably bring our own ontological assumptions into the research encounter.…”

Section: Methodology: New Ethnography and The Voice Of The Researchermentioning

confidence: 90%

Towards Transgressive Learning through Ontological Politics: Answering the “Call of the Mountain” in a Colombian Network of Sustainability

Chaves

Macintyre²,

Verschoor

et al. 2016

Sustainability

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Abstract:In line with the increasing calls for more transformative and transgressive learning in the context of sustainability studies, this article explores how encounters between different ontologies can lead to socio-ecological sustainability. With the dominant one-world universe increasingly being questioned by those who advocate the existence of many worlds-a so-called pluriverse-there lays the possibility of not only imagining other human-nature realities, but also engaging with them in practice. Moving towards an understanding of what happens when a multiplicity of worlds encounter one another, however, entails a sensitivity to the negotiations between often competing ontologies-or ontological politics. Based on an ethnographic methodology and narrative methods, data were collected from two consecutive intercultural gatherings called El Llamado de la Montaña (The Call of the Mountain), which take place for five days every year in different parts of Colombia. By actively participating in these gatherings of multiplicity, which address complex socio-ecological challenges such as food sovereignty and defence of territory, results show how encounters between different ontologies can result in transformative and potentially transgressive learning in terms of disrupting stubborn routines, norms and hegemonic powers which tend to accelerate unsustainability. Although we argue that a fundamental part of the wicked sustainability puzzle lies in supporting more relational ontologies, we note that such learning environments also lead to conflicts through inflexibility and (ab)use of power which must be addressed if sustained socio-ecological learning is to take place.

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Section: Methodology: New Ethnography and The Voice Of The Researchermentioning

confidence: 90%

Towards Transgressive Learning through Ontological Politics: Answering the “Call of the Mountain” in a Colombian Network of Sustainability

Chaves

Macintyre²,

Verschoor

et al. 2016

Sustainability

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“…It enables researchers to see from participants' perspectives because it allows them to enter participants' worlds; it allows researchers to find the meaning behind experiences and motivations, and even behind the research itself. According to Spry (2001), it also allows researchers to view themselves as others, to view themselves from afar as they consider their own experiences. Autoethnography influences "interpretations of what we study, how we study it, and what we say about our topic" for futures to come (Ellis et al, 2011, para.…”

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The Manuscript Dissertation: A Means of Increasing Competitive Edge for Tenure-track Faculty Positions

Freeman

2018

IJDS

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Aim/PurposeThe traditional doctoral dissertation is the first major research project that is led by doctoral students, but it does not necessarily prepare them to publish shorter articles in journals. The manuscript dissertation provides a way for doctoral students to establish themselves as researchers while gaining the experience of developing peer-reviewed manuscripts before graduation, thus enhancing career opportunities as tenure-track faculty.Background This paper demonstrates how the manuscript dissertation can be employed to increase doctoral student publications before graduation.

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“…Entendemos que la investigación conlleva un compromiso ético entre participantes e investigador, que en ocasiones acarrea romper barreras como en el caso de las autoetnografías, en las que el investigador-participante actúa como etnógrafo y se expone a sí mismo y a su contexto de forma crítica (Ellis, 2004;Spry, 2001). Sin embargo, el compromiso ético puede ser roto, porque la investigación cualitativa tiene el potencial de ser usada para dominar o controlar grupos a partir del conocimiento que se obtiene de investigarlos, como ya hemos tratado.…”

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De la domesticación de la investigación cualitativa al reto de reinventarse

Barba

Martín

González-Calvo

2015

Rev. Guillermo Ockham

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. De la domesticación de la investigación cualitativa al reto de reinventarse. Revista Científica Guillermo de Ockham, 13(1), 51-58. ResumenLa investigación cualitativa trata de un modelo basado en conseguir transformaciones que fomenten la justicia social. En ella, el investigador actúa en comunidad con los participantes, quienes son los dueños del problema y como tales deben ser el eje de la investigación y centra los procesos en conseguir resultados que transformen las prácticas sociales. Sin embargo, las presiones con las que los investigadores se encuentran desde las administraciones y las empresas que financian las investigaciones, hacen que la investigación cualitativa entre en un conflicto entre su verdadera función y conseguir finalidades objetivas y extrapolables, lo que desvirtúa la investigación cualitativa. Frente a esta problemá-tica, es importante tener presente las características de la investigación cualitativa para reconducirla hacia la finalidad transformadora con la que se creó. Palabras clave: investigación cualitativa, cultura de las auditorías, evidencias, participación, cuestionamientos del investigadorFrom the qualitative research domestication to the challenge of reinventing AbstractQualitative research is a model based on getting transformations that promote social justice. For this, the researcher acts with the participants, who are the owners of the problem and as such, should be the core of the research, focusing the processes in getting results which transform social practices. However, the pressures that researchers have from the administrations and companies that finance the researches make qualitative research encounter a conflict between its true function and obtaining objective and extrapolated purposes, thereby distorting qualitative research. Against this problem it is important to consider the characteristics of qualitative research to redirect it to the transformation purpose for which it was created.

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Performing Autoethnography: An Embodied Methodological Praxis

Cited by 718 publications

References 25 publications

Towards Transgressive Learning through Ontological Politics: Answering the “Call of the Mountain” in a Colombian Network of Sustainability

Towards Transgressive Learning through Ontological Politics: Answering the “Call of the Mountain” in a Colombian Network of Sustainability

The Manuscript Dissertation: A Means of Increasing Competitive Edge for Tenure-track Faculty Positions

De la domesticación de la investigación cualitativa al reto de reinventarse

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