Doing Ethnography, Being an Ethnographer: The Autoethnographic Research Process and I

Autor/in	Mitra, Rahul
Titel	Doing Ethnography, Being an Ethnographer: The Autoethnographic Research Process and I
Quelle	In: Journal of Research Practice, 6 (2010) 1, (20 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1712-851X
Schlagwörter	Research Methodology; Ethnography; Personal Narratives; Social Sciences; Academic Discourse; Writing (Composition); Epistemology; College Faculty; Doctoral Programs; Graduate Students + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Research method; Forschungsmethode; Ethnografie; Erlebniserzählung; Social science; Sozialwissenschaften; Gesellschaftswissenschaften; Discourse; Diskurs; Schreibübung; Erkenntnistheorie; Fakultät; Doktorandenprogramm; Graduate Study; Student; Students; Aufbaustudium; Graduiertenstudium; Hauptstudium; Studentin
Abstract	I examine here Theory and Scholarship (taken to be formalized social scientific frameworks that seek to map out the real world and social actions in an objective fashion) via an autoethnographic lens. Chiefly, I ask how autoethnography as a research method reconfigures them: how may we extend knowledge using autoethnography? While much critique has centered on the "doing" (dispassionately?) versus "being" (going native?) of autoethnography, I argue that such a dichotomy is inherently false. Instead, doing is located within the ethnographer's very being, so that a closer look at the autoethnographic research process is required, from conception to implementation to introspection. I attempt such a processual analysis here: drawing on an earlier social scientific project, I relate the intellectual and social process whereby it was translated into an autoethnography. Using a performative lens to illustrate the dialectical mode of doing and being in the research process, I intersperse portions of personal narrative with academic writing, to enable a disjunctural appreciation of the various layers of interpretation. While the epistemic framework I hold to here is indeed a poststructural one, privileging fragmentation and social situatedness, it also emphasizes continuity and interconnections in the research process. (Contains 1 figure.) (As Provided).
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