Autoethnography pdf
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Autoethnography
Research method using personal experience
Autoethnography is a form of ethnographic research in which a researcher connects personal experiences to wider cultural, political, and social meanings and understandings.[1][2][3][4] It is considered a form of qualitative and/or arts-based research.[3]
Autoethnography has been used across various disciplines, including anthropology,[5]arts education, communication studies,[6]education,[5][7][8]educational administration, English literature, ethnic studies, gender studies, history, human resource development,[9]marketing, music therapy,[10][11]nursing, organizational behavior,[12]paramedicine, performance studies, physiotherapy, psychology,[13][14]social work,[15]sociology,[16] and theology and religious studies.
Definitions
Historically, researchers have had trouble reaching a consensus regarding the definition of autoethnograp
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An Autoethnography is an autobiographical narrative within a cultural context, it holds culture and self together by interweaving them.
As I was reading Catherine Russell’s book, Experimental Ethnography, one of the things that first struck me was the origins of autoethnography. They talked about how it originated from queer culture. It makes total sense to me why it would. I could imagine that doing a typical autobiography as an LGBT person would really be difficult. Especially explaining your struggles without mentioning and discussing predominant attitudes towards the LGBT community at the time. Only focusing on their story without cultural context a lot would be missed.
To clearly and impactfully tell their story in such a way that a wide audience could relate to them, they have to discuss and show the cultural attitudes of the time and how they affected them. When they do that, it transcends a mere autobiography into a micro slice of history that has a far-reaching impact.
The Autoethnography
The autoethnography holds culture and self together by interweaving them
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When you are the researcher and the participant with autoethnography
Bolade-Ogunfodun, Y., Richmond Soga, L., & Laker, B. (2022). Entwined Positionality and Interpretive Frames of Reference: An Autoethnographic Account. Organizational Research Methods, 0(0). https://doi.org/10.1177/10944281221111401
Abstract. This paper investigates the ethnographic researcher's positionality and its role in sensemaking within the research process. Using autoethnographic data of the first author - a black female West African (Yoruba) scholar in a Western organizational context, we adopt a critical sensemaking approach to make sense of the researcher's field experience. We propose a conceptualization of the researcher's positionality as one that is entwined in the field, being an active interaction of the researcher's formative context with her sensory capabilities. We demonstrate how openness to the researcher's entwined positionality generates interpretive frames of reference and uncovers nuances in the sensemaking process, which widens the scope for reflexivity. We offer
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