Autoethnograpy
This page is devoted to sites applicable to my study for Bachelor
of Adult Education at UTS within the subject "Identity, Culture and Communication". The links here reflect my research
into Autoethnography which can be described as a 3 part proces:
- A description of Self
- An analysis of Self
- A representation of
Self
It is a particular form of ethnographic study that takes into account
time and place from the perspective of the storyteller. As the subject is the storyteller themself, it can be seen as
a untaintaed or more appropriately, a contextualized account of the subject matter.
A comparison of Autoethnographic
concepts that argue for and against the political value of the process.
Organisational Autoethnography
Autoethnography
has not as yet entered the research lexicon of business and industrial sociology. This article attempts to promote that move.
Autoethnography as a method in theological education
The author
describes a project that illustrates the use of critical ethnography as a research methodology in religious education. The
article focuses on portions of her own life story in an ethnographic project. She interrogates her reasons for engaging in
a specific field, in this case, female adolescent voice.
Discovery of Ae means to one
This is
a chat with one author reaching to discover what autoethnography means to her and she discovers that it often seeks to integrate
the other voices and perspectives encountered in one's life into the story.
Exploring alternative forms of writing ethnography
Explores
the use of first person voice and the complications of being positioned within ones field of study.
Prompts for Ae pre-writing
A great
site for prompts to help think about oneself as the product of cultural forces.
An Overview of Postmodernism
A usful addition to any discussion on Autoethnography.
This is a valuable site as an introduction to the term postmodernism.
Autoethnography from a literary perspective
Discusses key issues concerning the strenous
critique of ethnography from within and outside the literary discipline.
Social Identity
Social identity theory involves three central
ideas - categorization, identification and comparison and how we develop our own social identity which is part of the autoethnographic
approach.
Personal Identity
A useful discourse on personal identity asking (and prompting) questions about who “we” are and why we
are here.
