Autoethnography is a method of research that involves describing and analyzing personal experiences in order to understand cultural experiences. The method challenges canonical ways of doing research and recognizes how personal experience influences the research process. Autoethnography acknowledges and accomodates subjectivity, emotionality, and the researcher's influence on research. In this book, the authors provide a historical and conceptual overview of
autoethnography. They share their stories of coming to autoethnography and identify key concerns and considerations that led to the development of the method. Next, they outline the purposes and
practices--the core ideals--of autoethnography, how autoethnographers can accomplish these ideals, and why researchers might choose to do autoethnography. They describe the processes of doing autoethnography, conducting fieldwork, discussing ethics in research, and interpreting and analyzing personal experience, and they explore the various modes and techniques used and involved in writing autoethnography. They conclude with goals for creating and assessing autoethnography and describe the
future of autoethnographic inquiry. Throughout, the authors provide numerous examples of their work and share key resources. This book will serve as both a guide to the practices of doing autoethnography
and an exemplar of autoethnographic research processes and representations.
Autoethnography is a method of research that involves describing and analyzing personal experiences in order to understand cultural experiences. The method challenges canonical ways of doing research and recognizes how personal experience influences the research process. Autoethnography acknowledges and accomodates subjectivity, emotionality, and the researcher's influence on research. In this book, the authors provide a historical and conceptual overview of
autoethnography. They share their stories of coming to autoethnography and identify key concerns and considerations that led to the development of the method. Next, they outline the purposes and
practices--the core ideals--of autoethnography, how autoethnographers can accomplish these ideals, and why researchers might choose to do autoethnography. They describe the processes of doing autoethnography, conducting fieldwork, discussing ethics in research, and interpreting and analyzing personal experience, and they explore the various modes and techniques used and involved in writing autoethnography. They conclude with goals for creating and assessing autoethnography and describe the
future of autoethnographic inquiry. Throughout, the authors provide numerous examples of their work and share key resources. This book will serve as both a guide to the practices of doing autoethnography
and an exemplar of autoethnographic research processes and representations.
Acknowledgments
Chapter 1: Introduction to Autoethnography
Chapter 2: Autoethnographic Research Design and Philosophy
Chapter 3: Doing Autoethnography
Chapter 4: Representing Autoethnography
Chapter 5: Evaluating Autoethnography
Chapter 6: Resources for Doing and Writing Autoethnography
References
Tony Adams is Associate Professor and Chair of Communication,
Media, and Theatre at Northeastern Illinois University. He is the
author of Narrating the Closet: An Autoethnography of Same Sex
Desire (Left Coast Press, 2011), co-editor with Stacy Holman Jones
and Carolyn Ellis of the Handbook of Autoethnography (Left Coast
Press, 2013), and co-editor with Jonathan Wyatt of On (Writing)
Families: Autoethnographies of Presence and
Absence, Love and Loss (Sense Publishers, 2014).
Stacy Holman Jones is Professor of Communication Studies at
California State University, Northridge. She is the author of
Kaleidoscope Notes: Writing Women's'Music and Organizational
Culture (AltaMira) and Torch Singing: Performing Resistance and
Desire from Edith Piaf to Billie Holiday (AltaMira) and co-author
of Autoethnography (Oxford). She is co-editor (with Carolyn Ellis
and Tony E. Adams) of the Handbook of Autoethnography (Left
Coast
Press) and Storying Home: Place, Identity, Exile (with Devika
Chalwa, Lexington Press). She is also editor of the journal
Departures in Critical Qualitative Research published by
UCPress.
Carolyn Ellis is Distinguished University Professor of
Communication at University of South Florida in Tampa, Florida. She
has published work situated in emotions and interpretive
representations of qualitative research, particularly
autoethnography. Her current research focuses on working
collaboratively with Holocaust survivors
"Overall, the text provides a useful, detailed framework for embarking on autoethnographic research, and can be very informative to other qualitative researchers considering the utility of various methods when conceiving and designing a research study." --PsycCRITIQUES
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