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  1. Exemplifying Collaborative Autoethnographic Practice via Shared Stories of Mothering.Patricia Geist-Martin, Lisa Gates, Liesbeth Wiering, Erika Kirby, Renee Houston, Anne Lilly & Juan Moreno - 2010 - Journal of Research Practice 6 (1):Article M8.
    In this piece, we articulate the "collaborative autoethnographic practice" we utilized to illustrate the complexities of mothering that involved: (a) individually writing autoethnographic narratives on mothering, (b) sharing these autoethnographic narratives in a public forum, (c) publicly discussing the heuristic commonalities across these autoethnographic narratives, (d) tying those commonalities back to the literature, and (e) revisiting the autoethnographic narratives for aspects of social critique where our autoethnographic narratives (intentionally or unintentionally) hegemonicaly reproduced cultural scripts. We argue that presenting knowledge of (...)
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  • "Do Thyself No Harm": Protecting Ourselves as Autoethnographers.April Chatham-Carpenter - 2010 - Journal of Research Practice 6 (1):Article M1.
    Autoethnographers have grappled with how to represent others in the stories they tell. However, very few have written about the need to protect themselves in the process of doing autoethnographic writing. In this paper, I explore the ethical challenges faced when writing about a potentially-ongoing disorder, such as anorexia, when the research process triggers previously disengaged unhealthy thinking or behaviors for those involved. In the story-writing process, I felt a strong pull to go back into anorexia, as I immersed myself (...)
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  • Unraveling Researcher Subjectivity Through Multivocality in Autoethnography.Robert Mizzi - 2010 - Journal of Research Practice 6 (1):Article M3.
    This article analyzes and discusses the notion of including multivocality as an autoethnographic method to: (a) illustrate that there is no single and temporally-fixed voice that a researcher possesses, (b) unfix identity in a way that exposes the fluid nature of identity as it moves through particular contexts, and (c) deconstruct competing tensions within the autoethnographer as s/he connects the personal self to the social context. After providing a short, multivocal vignette based on the author’s previous work assignment as a (...)
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  • Doing Ethnography, Being an Ethnographer: The Autoethnographic Research Process and I.Rahul Mitra - 2010 - Journal of Research Practice 6 (1):Article M4.
    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 (...)
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  • Opening My Voice, Claiming My Space: Theorizing the Possibilities of Postcolonial Approaches to Autoethnography.Archana A. Pathak - 2010 - Journal of Research Practice 6 (1):Article M10.
    This essay examines the ways in which postcoloniality and autoethnography can be integrated to create a space of scholarly inquiry that disrupts the colonialist enterprise prevalent in the academy. By utilizing González's four ethics of postcolonial ethnography, this essay presents an ethics for postcolonial autoethnography as a mode to build a body of scholarly research that disrupts scientific imperialism.
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  • Autoethnographic Mother-Writing: Advocating Radical Specificity.Patty Sotirin - 2010 - Journal of Research Practice 6 (1):Article M9.
    In considering the similarities between "momoirs"--popular memoirs written by mothers about motherhood experiences--and evocative autoethnographic mother-writing, I argue that differentiating these two forms of intimate observation and personal narrative requires a rethinking of autoethnographic practice. Specifically, I draw on the work of Gilles Deleuze to advocate for a radical specificity in autoethnographic writing. Thinking the autoethnographic narrative in terms of specificities and differences encourages us to think creatively about personal experiences and cultural relations beyond what is shared and communicable.
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  • Painting a Counter-Narrative of African Womanhood: Reflections on How My Research Transformed Me.Faith Wambura Ngunjiri - 2007 - Journal of Research Practice 3 (1):Article M4.
    Whereas writing a dissertation can be a fear-inducing experience for a doctoral student, there exists the possibility of not only learning but also self-transformation that can take place through the process. In this article, I reflect on how my choice of a research approach provided me with a transformative research experience. I will describe portraiture as a critical feminist research method that was culturally relevant in undertaking my study of African women leaders. Through this process of conducting research utilizing portraiture (...)
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  • When the Spirit Shows Up: An Autoethnography of Spiritual Reconciliation with the Academy.Sheryl Conrad Cozart - 2010 - Educational Studies: A Jrnl of the American Educ. Studies Assoc 46 (2):250-269.
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  • Becoming University Scholars: Inside Professional Autoethnographies.Fernando Hernández, Juana Maria Sancho, Amalia Creus & Alejandra Montané - 2010 - Journal of Research Practice 6 (1):Article M7.
    This article shows part of the results of a research project: The Impact of Social Change in Higher Education Staff Professional Life and Work (Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation, SEJ2006-01876). The main aim of this project was to explore and understand how scholars establish a dialogue, resist, adapt themselves or adopt changes, in the process of constructing their professional identities. As the members of the research team were scholars ourselves, teaching and carrying out research in Spanish universities, we started (...)
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  • Methodological and Analytical Dilemmas in Autoethnographic Research.Elena Maydell - 2010 - Journal of Research Practice 6 (1):Article M5.
    This article presents an argument on the application of theoretical and methodological frameworks to the study of identity from an autoethnographic perspective. In order to guide the analysis process, the author employed social constructionism as the main theoretical foundation, whereas thematic analysis and positioning theory were deployed as the methodological frameworks. Further, in the process of using ethnographic methods to study the identity of Russian immigrants to New Zealand, the author found herself also needing to use autoethnography to interrogate and (...)
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  • The Crises and Freedoms of Researching Your Own Life.Caroline Pearce - 2010 - Journal of Research Practice 6 (1):Article M2.
    There has been much work highlighting the benefits of autoethnographic research yet little acknowledgement of the demands researching your own life makes on the emotional and mental wellbeing of the researcher. This paper explores the consequences that can arise as a result of autoethnographic research by detailing the crises involved in researching a topic that the researcher has experienced herself. This paper discusses the re-emergence of my grief over the death of my mother as I researched into the experience of (...)
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  • Researcher-Researched Difference: Adapting an Autoethnographic Approach for Addressing the Racial Matching Issue.Donnalyn Pompper - 2010 - Journal of Research Practice 6 (1):Article M6.
    This introspective essay was inspired by a desire to reflect on the use of qualitative research methods--where I am a Caucasian woman examining work experiences of women of color. I launched a journey backward to discover respondents' motivation for participating in my focus groups over the years, to closely examine their comfort level with a cross-ethnic dyad. The exercise enabled me to reflect on how I had negotiated power issues inherent in the research process. It contributes to the ongoing dialogue (...)
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