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autoethnographer: one who uses lived experience as evidence with which to explore cultural phenomena.
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“Manslation” explores several episodes from the author’s childhood and early adulthood that show the development of his sexual literacy.
I couldn't go to India for the past two years due to COVID-19 uncertainties and be with the rest of my family to help them navigate through this earth-shattering loss when they needed me the most, a sad reality of many international students.”
Atlas Markers: An Emerging Autoethnography Author’s Memo Atlas Markers n is largely...
"It is in finding these solutions, the tape and the glue that holds us all together, that we find the beauty of who we are as people."
"I had no idea what the repercussions would be should I disclose my identity to my students. Would I be fired? Would I be questioned? Would I be told not to talk of such things? This reticence is a sad reflection on my internalized homophobia, my being still uncomfortable enough with my identity such that I had to worry about keeping it secret."
“Entanglements of the Mind, Soul, and Body” details our journey as researchers utilizing narrative collage and collage portraits as a tool for data analysis.
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In this piece, a queer university student from China reflects on his understandings of sexual and ethnic/national identities as he moves from China to the UK to study.
These pieces explore through personal experience the cultural phenomena of migrant loss of identity and subordination, post colonialism, othering
The lyrics of "World's Greatest Man" grapple with the paradoxes of participant-observation as well as the ambiguity of development work in Thailand.
How do creatives find joy in artistic performance as a form of black feminist autoethnography? Podcast & video.
Confessions of an ESL Student explores the significant role that English study played in my development as a student and adult.
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autoethnographer: one who uses lived experience as evidence with which to explore cultural phenomena.
What is autoethnography? The AutoEthnographer's international team of editors offer definitions & suggested readings.
“The AutoEthnographer is an award-winning, non-profit, open-access, peer-reviewed literary and arts magazine dedicated to presenting the creative side of autoethnography, a qualitative research method uniting ethnography and autobiography that utilizes lived experience as evidence with which to explore cultural phenomena." ISSN: 2833-1400
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This autoethnography is the first-hand experience and exposure of imposter syndrome from a new adjunct instructor's point of view.
Atlas Markers: An Emerging Autoethnography Author’s Memo Atlas Markers n is largely a thought-piece on the development of...
"I wrote Asha’s story to give voice to all the women in rural Bangladesh who cannot speak out against their abusers or society."
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Dilek Isler Hayirli·
All ContentAutoethnographic Art & MultimediaEducationFrom the EditorsMoreReflections on MethodVolume 2, Issue 3 (2022)
··13 min read"I had not been aware that this emotional research was also performing autoethnography, collecting memories from the field"
You’re Still Here: Art and Grief in Autoethnographic Textiles Artist’s Memo You’re Still Here: Art and Grief in...
This essay and video introduce an autoethnographic study of my life as a deaf child in Finland learning sign language.
Within the context of this poem, I tried to explain what was happening to my body because of SLE and what I was thinking.
"It is in finding these solutions, the tape and the glue that holds us all together, that we find the beauty of who we are as people."
This work of experimental poetry examines the interaction between the happy user of the open source format and the automated surface.
I introduce artistic autoethnography and how the term a/r/tifact opens up the imagination to the possibilities of autoethnographic artmaking.
"In Turkey, we must consider opening folklore & the social sciences, but this time more powerfully, staggeringly, and creatively."
"In my interview with award-winning author Patricia Leavy on literary research, we also discuss her evolution from academic to novelist, her genre of "social fiction," and her latest novels series, Celestial Bodies."
This is a love letter to my people, my family and a version of me trying to overcome the trauma of almost seeing their mother die.
Ash Watson·
All ContentAutoethnographic EssaysCelebrating Dr. Patricia Leavy's Social Fiction 2024Special Issues
··13 min readLeavy’s 2019 novel about a week-long all-inclusive Icelandic research seminar wends its way through meetings, planning sessions, excursions, debates and dinners to the heart of the paradigms and epistemological questions that structure and drive scholarly research.
This artwork is based on a startling and memorable encounter at the local vet while attempting to get Anaïs spayed.
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Guillermo Gil's newest book review examines Lidia Marte's Cimarrón Pedagogies, Notes on Auto-Ethnography as a Tool for Critical Education.
In the following interview with award-winning author, Patricia Leavy, we discuss writing fiction and her new novel Hollyland.
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