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Emotional Research: Performing Autoethnography at My Late Father’s Village

Dilek Isler Hayirli·
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·November 6, 2022·13 min read
"I had not been aware that this emotional research was also performing autoethnography, collecting memories from the field"
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New Issue! The AutoEthnographer Volume 2, Issue 3, Summer 2022

Marlen Harrison·
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·October 8, 2022·2 min read
In this new issue from The AutoEthnographer, we introduce new features such as book reviews and autoethnographic art.
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Autoethnographic Literary Nonfiction: How Sookie Saved My Life

Priscilla Jones·
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·September 16, 2022·10 min read
"Sookie was never meant to be my support dog. The subject of this autoethnographic literary nonfiction, I rescued her when I was 17 years old and it was by far the best decision I have ever made."
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Storytelling as Academic Writing: How to Embrace Creative Nonfiction

Jessica Smartt Gullion·
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·September 14, 2022·5 min read
"One way to reach broader audiences is to embrace creative nonfiction and use storytelling as academic writing."
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Autoethnography and Culture: Exploring Embodied Inquiry with Celeste Snowber

Michelle Reale·
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·September 14, 2022·10 min read
"Autoethnography and culture: Embodied inquiry is not a formula, or methodology, but a way of being, being open to the body as a source of knowledge, wonder, difficulty, fragility and utter joy."
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Being a Female Gamer & Playing Lord of the Rings Online

Diane Riggins·
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·September 14, 2022·5 min read
"As a female gamer, being able to play a game where the female characters/toons aren’t dressed as sexual objects is refreshing."
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Journey of Self Love: Autoethnographic Art

Britnie Walston·
All ContentAutoethnographic Art & MultimediaVolume 2, Issue 3 (2022)
·September 7, 2022·4 min read
"My oil on canvas series, "Journey of Self Love," depicts a variation of obstacles I've personally had to endure throughout my life as a woman."
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The Pandemic Nature Project, Filmed Vignettes of Life During COVID

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·September 2, 2022·2 min read
"The Pandemic Nature Project is a 35-minute short autoethnographic film that traces a series of personal experiences, emotional reactions, and critical responses to COVID across a series of short vignettes."
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“Double Consciousness as a Black American”: New Video from The Twerking Academic

Shanita Mitchell·
All ContentAutoethnographic Art & MultimediaVolume 2, Issue 3 (2022)
·September 2, 2022·3 min read
"In the newest video from The Twerking Academic, I explore how the summer of 2020 slammed me back into an awareness of my own double consciousness as a Black American."
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Celestial Bodies: Writing Fiction about Love, Trauma, and Healing

Patricia Leavy·
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·September 2, 2022·8 min read
"Although I never planned it, I wrote a series of novels, Celestial Bodies, that have pierced my heart in a way nothing else ever has, changing me as a writer and as a person."
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Opening Folklore: How Can We Shift Social Sciences Via Autoethnography?

Dilek Isler Hayirli·
All ContentEducationFrom the EditorsInterviewsMoreReflections on MethodVolume 2, Issue 3 (2022)
·September 1, 2022·9 min read
"In Turkey, we must consider opening folklore & the social sciences, but this time more powerfully, staggeringly, and creatively."
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Celebrating the 65+ New Age Sage, in Praise of Saxions

Catherine Vandermal·
All ContentAutoethnographic WritingVolume 2, Issue 3 (2022)
·August 28, 2022·5 min read
"As a New Age Sage or “Saxion”, it’s important to understand that to move things forward I must accept a challenge - to reinvent myself."
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