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Ron Chenail, Sally St. George, Maureen Duffy, Robin Cooper, marcela polanco, Kenneth Carano, and TBD
The Qualitative Report
Fifth Annual Conference
Qualitative Research Artistry and Craft
Nova Southeastern University
Fort Lauderdale, Florida USA
January 18, 2014
The Art and Craft of Autoethnography
Auto-Ethno-GraphyAuto – personal
experience
Ethno – cultural experience
Graphy – analyzing and writing experience
(Ellis, Adams, & Bochner, 2011, ¶ 1)
Definitions
“…a form of self-narrative that places the self within a social context” (Reed-Danahay, 1997, p. 9)
“…retrospectively and selectively write about epiphanies that stem from, or are made possible by, being part of a culture and/or possessing a particular cultural identity” (Ellis, Adams, & Bochner, 2011, ¶ 8)
Definitions
“…a research method that utilizes the researchers’ autobiographical data to analyze and interpret their cultural assumptions” (Chang, 2008, p. 9)
“…seeks to address that muddled idiosyncratic, florid eccentricities that make us unique as opposed to part of a population” (Muncey, 2010, p. xi)
Autoethnography
Methodology
Product / Performance
Intervention
History and ContextsEthnography
CultureOtherObjectivity
AutobiographyNarrativeSelfSubjective
TensionsNative ethnography: Studying
one’s own group
Ethnographic autobiography or Native autobiography: One’s life story has ethnographic interest
Ethnography becoming more biographical
Autobiography becoming more reflective of societal and cultural frames of reference (Reed-Danahay, 1997, pp. 8-9)
ContinuumsBiographical –
EthnographicSelf-Narrative –
CultureInsider – OutsiderObjective –
SubjectivePersonal memory
data – Field data (observations, interviews, and artifacts)
Artistic – Scientific
Types
Individual / Collaborative
Evocative / Interpretive / Performance / Critical
Analytic
Evocative Autoethnography“Back and forth autoethnographers gaze, first through an ethnographic wide-angle lens, focusing outward on social and cultural aspects of their personal experience; then they look inward, exposing a vulnerable self that is moved by and may move through, refract, and resist cultural interpretations.” (Ellis & Bochner, 2000, p. 739)
Evocative Autoethnography“As they zoom backward and forward, inward and outward, distinctions between the personal and cultural become blurred, sometimes beyond recognition.” (Ellis & Bochner, 2000, p. 739)
“The goal is to enter and document the moment-to-moment, concrete details of a life. That’s an important way of knowing as well.” (Ellis & Bochner, 2000, p. 737)
Evocative AutoethnographyStart with your personal
lifePay attention to your
physical feelings, thoughts, and emotions
Employ systematic sociological introspection and emotional recall to understand your experience
Explore your particular life to understand a way of life (Ellis & Bochner, 2000, p. 737)
Analytic AutoethnographyAlternative to
Evocative or Emotional Autoethnography
Realist and Analytic Ethnographic Paradigm
Traditional Symbolic Interactionism
Self-related Ethnographic Study (Anderson, 2005, p. 375)
Analytic Autoethnography:Key Features
Complete Member Researcher (CMR) Status in the Research Group or Setting
Analytic ReflexivityNarrative Visibility of the
Researcher’s SelfDialogue with Informants
Beyond the SelfCommitment to Theoretical
Analysis Focused on Improving Theoretical Understandings of Broader Social Phenomenon (Anderson, 2005, pp. 375, 378)
Methods and TermsPersonal memory
dataEpiphaniesSelf-observationsSelf-reflectionsExternal data
InterviewsArtifactsLiterature
Products
ProsePoetryVisualMusicPlaysDanceStand-up
Quality
Reliability – Credibility
Validity – Verisimilitude
Generalizability – Reader Response (Ellis, Adams, & Bochner, 2011, ¶ 32-35)
Ethical ConcernsMemoryPrivacy,
Confidentiality, and IRB’s (Chang, 2008, pp. 68-69)
Relational ethics (Ellis, Adams, & Bochner, 2011, ¶ 28-31)
Narrative responsibilitiesPrivilegeMediaViolence (Muncey, 2010, p. 105)
Producing Autoethnographies
AuthorsReviewersEditors
StudentsFaculty
Questions To Ask
Person: Who is writing the autoethnography?
Populace: What is the social group to which the person is identifying?
Position: What is the person’s relationship to the populace?
Questions To Ask
Problem: What is the challenge experienced by the person/populace?
Purpose: Why is the person writing the autoethnography?
Perspective: What is the person’s lens?
Questions To Ask
Plan: How was the autoethnography created?
Product: What is the autoethnography?
Praxis: What are the implications of the inquiry?
Best Autoethnography of 2013
Royalsby
Lorde
I've never seen a diamond in the fleshI cut my teeth on wedding rings in the moviesAnd I'm not proud of my addressIn the torn up town, no post code envy
But every song's like:
Gold teethGrey GooseTripping in the bathroomBloodstainsBall gownsTrashing the hotel room
We don't care, we're driving Cadillacs in our dreams
Royals
But everybody's like:CrystalMaybachDiamonds on your timepieceJet planesIslandsTigers on a gold leashWe don't care, we aren't caught up in your love affairAnd we'll never be royals (royals)It don't run in our bloodThat kind of lux just ain't for us, we crave a different kind of buzzLet me be your ruler (ruler)You can call me queen beeAnd baby I'll rule, I'll rule, I'll rule, I'll ruleLet me live that fantasy
Royals
My friends and I we've cracked the code We count our dollars on the train to the partyAnd everyone who knows us knowsThat we're fine with this, we didn't come from moneyBut every song's like:Gold teethGrey GooseTripping in the bathroomBloodstainsBall gownsTrashing the hotel roomWe don't care, we're driving Cadillacs in our dreams
Royals
But everybody's like:CrystalMaybachDiamonds on your timepieceJet planesIslandsTigers on a gold leashWe don't care, we aren't caught up in your love affairAnd we'll never be royals (royals)It don't run in our bloodThat kind of lux just ain't for us, we crave a different kind of buzzLet me be your ruler (ruler)You can call me queen beeAnd baby I'll rule, I'll rule, I'll rule, I'll ruleLet me live that fantasy
Royals
ooh ooh oh ooh We're better than we've every dreamed And I'm in love with being queenooh ooh oh ooh Life is great without a care We aren't caught up in your love affairAnd we'll never be royals (royals)It don't run in our bloodThat kind of lux just ain't for us, we crave a different kind of buzzLet me be your ruler (ruler)You can call me queen beeAnd baby I'll rule, I'll rule, I'll rule, I'll ruleLet me live that fantasySongwriters: Little, Joel / Yelich-O'Connor, Ella Published by © EMI Music Publishing
Royals
Nine P’s of Autoethnography
PersonPopulacePositionProblemPurpose
PerspectivePlanProductPraxis
Questions and Comments
ReferencesAnderson, L. (2006). Analytic
autoethnography. Journal of Contemporary Ethnography, 35(4), 373-395.
Chang, H. (2008). Autoethnography as method. Walnut Creek, CA: Left Coast.
Ellis, C., Adams, T. E., & Bochner, A. P. (2010). Autoethnography: An overview. Forum Qualitative Sozialforschung / Forum: Qualitative Social Research, 12(1), Art. 10, http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:0114-fqs1101108
References
Ellis, C., & Bochner, A. P. (2000). Autoethnography, personal narrative, reflexivity: Researcher as subject. In N. K. Denzin & Y. S. Lincoln (Eds.), Handbook of qualitative research (2nd ed., pp. 733-768). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
Muncey, T. (2012). Creating autoethnographies. Los Angeles, CA: Sage.
Reed-Danahay, D. (1997). Introduction. In D. Reed-Danahay (Ed.), Auto/ethnography: Rewriting the self and the social (pp. 1-17). Oxford, UK: Berg.
Ron Chenail, PhDThe Qualitative ReportNova Southeastern UniversityGraduate School of Humanities and Social Sciences3301 College AvenueFort Lauderdale, Florida USA 33314Phone: 954.262.3019Email: ron@nova.edu
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