truth Troubles

Owen, Jillian A. Tullis; McRae, Chris; Adams, Tony; Vitale, Alisha

doi:10.1177/1077800408318316

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“…It is not uncommon for people who have experienced the same event to have different accounts of what they observed (Owen et al, 2009). This was overcome in this study by the researcher dealing with what he had learned from an event and how that learning affected his behaviour.…”

Section: There Is a Risk Of False Memoriesmentioning

confidence: 95%

Autoethnography and Theory Testing

Livesey¹,

Runeson²

2018

CEB

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One of the problems in construction management research is how to harvest the living experience of people working in the profession. Surveys and interviews are the common methods, but they have obvious problems, not only with defining terminology and targeting the appropriate populations but also with the knowledge of the respondents and their willingness to reflect. Autoethnography, in its conventional form, overcomes most of these problems, but creates a new set of problems, particularly in terms of our ability to generalise and verify the results. What is argued here is that autoethnography can be applied analytically and rigorously so that it can be used for theory testing and theory building. The approach is illustrated by a case study, in which professional experience in the construction industry is integrated into the conventional scientific method.

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Section: There Is a Risk Of False Memoriesmentioning

confidence: 95%

Autoethnography and Theory Testing

Livesey¹,

Runeson²

2018

CEB

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“…Third, since I did not take notes during this experience, I have used my memory to recreate phone calls, text messages and face-to-face conversations. I have done my best to be as accurate as possible [3]. Now that I have explained my ethical obligations, some of the methodological issues, and how I have addressed them, let me return to the story.…”

Section: Background and Methodsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Death of an Ex-Spouse: Lessons in Family Communication about Disenfranchised Grief

Tullis

2017

Behavioral Sciences

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The death of a loved one is an emotional-laden experience, and while grief and mourning rituals are less formal today in many communities, there remain some social norms for individuals to process loss. The death of an ex-family member, such as a former spouse, is more complicated and expectations for how to respond are fraught with uncertainty. While grief has been studied and is primarily understood as an individual cognitive process, scholars in sociology and communication are considering the ways in which grief and mourning are social and take place in dialogue with others. This manuscript explores Kenneth Doka’s concept of disenfranchised grief, which is “grief that is experienced when loss cannot be openly acknowledged, socially sanctioned, or publicly mourned” through the author’s experience of the death of her ex-husband. The narrative will recount how the author learned about her ex-husband’s death (via text message), and will challenge definitions of family and family communication about death and grief, particularly the communication strategies used to cope with this unique type of loss.

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“…Yet belonging in the field need not necessarily equate to greater completeness in my narration of it. I, as ethnographer cannot record everything I experience (Tullis Owen et al, 2009). Participation in the field limits the time I have to maintain my fieldnotes (Clifford, 2010).…”

Section: Embeddedness Self and Narrative Truthmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Ethnographic meaning is thus inherently unstable and lacks transparency (Bochner, 2001). This is where a distinction between the essence of an experience, a narrative truth, and a factually, verifiably accurate historical truth must be made (Tullis Owen et al, 2009). I, as ethnographer can only ever seek to proffer research reliability through the credibility of my narration, validity through its believability and verisimilitude, and generalizability through its ability to allow readers comparison with their own lives and to inform them about the lives of "Others" (Ellis et al, 2011).…”

Section: Embeddedness Self and Narrative Truthmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…I used literary devices to invoke memories of shared experiences (Marcus, 2010;Van Maanen, 2011;Narayan, 2012). Those memories served to expand on my jottings and musings, to inscribe a narrative truth of the field as I remember it (Tullis Owen et al, 2009). A scene was set through remembering my beginnings in the field, those formative first encounters, depicting the situation and my feelings about them.…”

Section: Embeddedness Self and Narrative Truthmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Longing to belong

Butcher

2013

Qualitative Research in Organizations and Management: An International Journal

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Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine distinctions between embeddedness and belonging in ethnographic fieldwork to make sense of a researcher's identity position in the field. Design/methodology/approach – A confessional ethnographic narrative was retrospectively crafted from field notes from a 12-month fieldwork period. This narrative is presented and critically discussed to problematize the author's remembered sense of place and temporality in the field. Findings – Regardless of whether a researcher “longs to belong” in the field, the paper finds that the research and the researcher belongs to the field. The temporality of an ethnographer's being in the field causes its inhabitants, the research participants to assign him/her a distinct and hybrid identity position. Research limitations/implications – It is recognized that the research presented is bound by nostalgia. However, such reflexive intersubjectivity must be accounted for in ethnography. The identity position of a researcher influences the research process and outcomes. And that identity is not at the discretion of the researcher. Originality/value – Adopting the trope of habitus and postcolonial principles, this research illustrates the criticality of reflexive intersubjectivity in ethnography to positioning the researcher as “Other,” not the research participants. For organizational ethnographers, and qualitative researchers more widely, to recognize this ethical consideration has consequences for how fieldwork is practiced and reported.

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truth Troubles

Cited by 33 publications

References 49 publications

Autoethnography and Theory Testing

Autoethnography and Theory Testing

Death of an Ex-Spouse: Lessons in Family Communication about Disenfranchised Grief

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