Writing the self into research: Using grounded theory analytic strategies in autoethnography

Pace, Steven

doi:10.52086/001c.31147

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“…Codes included, coming out, workplace symbols of LGBTQ + inclusion, role models and leadership. Theoretical memos were used to capture and record the emerging theory, accumulating and maturing as the analysis progressed (Pace, 2012). In the second phase of grounded theory analysis, theoretical coding determined how emergent concepts related to each other (Charmaz, 2006).…”

Section: Focus Group Codingmentioning

confidence: 99%

Coming out in the university workplace: a case study of LGBTQ + staff visibility

Lee¹

2022

High Educ

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This article explores the issue of workplace visibility and signs and symbols of LGBTQ + identity in a UK university. A poststructuralist Butlerian theoretical framework underpins this article. Sexual and gender identities are understood as multiple and fragmented, and constructed in relation to others and within the systems of power and knowledge that exist in universities and society more widely. An anonymous survey and focus group discussions were conducted with LGBTQ + staff in a higher education institution in England awarded university status in 1992. Results showed that staff felt relatively comfortable coming out to their peer-groups in the workplace but were less confident in coming out to students. Signs and symbols of LGBTQ + identities were fundamentally important to LGBTQ + staff members in helping them feel safe in the workplace and indicating to LGBTQ + students that they were potentially a source of support. The visibility of LGBTQ + senior leaders was important in empowering staff to believe that they too might progress within the university.

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Section: Focus Group Codingmentioning

confidence: 99%

Coming out in the university workplace: a case study of LGBTQ + staff visibility

Lee¹

2022

High Educ

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“…Specifically, the study has taken an analytic autoethnography approach—data provide insight into and are used to “develop, refine and extend theoretical understanding” of social phenomena (Anderson, 2006; Le Roux, 2017, p. 201; Pace, 2012).…”

Section: Autoethnography As Methodsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Short and Locked Down: The Impact of COVID-19 on a Person With Dwarfism

Harvey

2023

Space and Culture

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Living with a visible physical disability—specifically dwarfism—brings situational, psychosocial, and cultural challenges. The COVID-19 pandemic, and its restrictions, amplifies these dwarfism-related complexities, exposing the politics of visibility and exclusion, as well as spatial injustices. This autoethnographic paper deliberates these heightened disabling encounters in their various contextual layers—physical, social, and psychological. Fundamentally, people with dwarfism have become further disabled and disadvantaged because of the pandemic’s psychosocial stresses, contextual traumas, and physical exclusions. The paper intimately addresses the embodied, psychological, cultural, and spatial inequalities short-statured individuals endure because of the pandemic. Drawing on theoretical models of disability, critical disability literature, geographies of disability, as well as the conceptual paradigm of biopolitical power, the paper begins to make sense of these experiences so that shifts may occur in different spaces. Arguably, the experiences of COVID-19 that are shared here are also applicable to people with other disabilities.

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“…It was precisely at this point, moved by a progressive interest in ethnography, when this author started a second stage of interpretation oriented by the five basic stages of analytic autoethnography as defined by Anderson (2006): (1) complete member researcher status (obvious here due to a highly individual goal and setting), (2) analytic reflexivity (already started with the original fieldnotes), (3) narrative visibility of the researcher's self (both through quantitative and qualitative data in this case), (4) dialogue with informants beyond the self (which was troubled, as indicated below), and (5) commitment to theoretical analysis (which required further readings and literature reviews). Therefore a later part of the research, as a sort of reflexive distillation, was informed by reading about similar experiences of digital disengagement from ethnographers and other researchers working on this topic, and correspondingly adding a retrospective interpretation of each of the 112 fieldnotes as a "grounded" approach (Pace, 2012), mainly during January 2022.…”

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“One button in my pocket instead of the smartphone” – A methodological assemblage connecting self-research and autoethnography in a digital disengagement study

Hidalgo¹,

Tzovaras²

2023

Preprint

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In this article we present a “methodological assemblage” and technological prototype connecting autoethnography to the practices of self-research in personal science. As an experimental process of personal data gathering, one of the authors used a low-tech device for the active registration of events and their perception, in a case study on disengaging from their smartphone. For the visualization of this data the other author developed a novel treatment of fieldnotes in analytic autoethnography through an open source, interactive notebook. As a proof of concept, we provide a detailed description of the corresponding protocol and prototype, also making available the notebook source code and the quantitative-qualitative open dataset behind its visualization. This highly personalized methodological assemblage represents a technological appropriation that combines self-research and autoethnography –two disciplinary perspectives that share a type of inquiry based on situated knowledge, departing from personal data as empirical basis. Despite recent autoethnographic literature on the phenomenon of self-tracking and the Qualified Self, our contribution addresses a lack of studies in the opposite direction: how the practice of self-research mediated by technology can lead to bridges with digital autoethnography, validating their hybrid combination. After addressing the conceptual, ontological and methodological similarities and differences between personal science and autoethnography, we contextualize the case study of digital disengagement and provide a detailed description of the developed self-protocol and the tools used for data gathering.

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Writing the self into research: Using grounded theory analytic strategies in autoethnography

Cited by 46 publications

References 9 publications

Coming out in the university workplace: a case study of LGBTQ + staff visibility

Coming out in the university workplace: a case study of LGBTQ + staff visibility

Short and Locked Down: The Impact of COVID-19 on a Person With Dwarfism

“One button in my pocket instead of the smartphone” – A methodological assemblage connecting self-research and autoethnography in a digital disengagement study

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