Is This Research? Productive Tensions in Living the (Collaborative) Autoethnographic Process

International Journal of Qualitative Methods

Kelly W.Guyotte¹ 

关键词: autoethnography;    collaborative autoethnography;    interdisciplinary;    methodology;    publishing;   

DOI  :  10.1177/1609406916631758

学科分类：社会科学、人文和艺术（综合）

来源: Sage Journals

【 摘 要 】

We came to collaborative autoethnography quite by accident. In this methodological paper, we consider our experiences as we embraced a new methodology, taught and researched collaboratively in an interdisciplinary space, and grappled with how we might nestle our work in a journal with no history of publishing autoethnographies—all while becoming awakened to critiques against and arguments for autoethnographic research. Our discussions are presented along with portions of our lengthy e-mail correspondences written during our research process and center on two prominent facets of our research experience: interdisciplinarity and the research process. Entangled in our methodological unpacking, we highlight “Productive Tensions” that emerged from both our collaboration and reviewer feedback that is presented alongside our discussion. Through seeing these tensions as productive, we argue that embracing diverse perspectives can serve to strengthen the depth of engagement, quality, and potential impact of (collab...

【 授权许可】

CC BY-NC