Starke Reflexivität: Autoethnografie und Ethnopsychoanalyse im Gespräch

Einleitung

“…Dies muss auch nicht immer mit Befragungen einhergehen, denn gerade aus der Kulturwissenschaft ist das Potenzial des Einbezugs des eigenen Erlebens wohlbekannt und muss sich nicht hinter dem Deckmantel der Objektivität verbergen, denn «[z]unächst beginnt und endet jede Forschung bei den Forschenden. Sie sind die Forschungsinstrumente, sie stellen Fragen, zeichnen Antworten auf, sie beobachten, interpretieren und schreiben» [26] .…”

From practice to theory and back again?

“…On the other hand, it advocates for the recognition of the ethnographer's own body and sensory experience for understanding the phenomena they study. For those interested in the differences between autoethnography and ethno-psychoanalysis and how these approaches might complement each other in the search for reflexivity, refer toStadlbauer & Ploder (2017) orWinter (2019).12 In light of the problematic concept of Volk which was instrumentalised in National Socialist times, Volkskunde and its succeeding disciplines had to redefine themselves, which meant abandoning what was perceived as traditional folk life of which knitting seemed to be a part. During her research she realised that her knitting research seemed to be shifting the hard-worked-for boundaries of a discipline grappling with its past and that this, in turn, also shaped her own research(Arantes 2019(Arantes , 2021.…”