Autoethnography

Autoethnography is an autobiographical genre of writing and research that displays multiple layers of consciousness, connecting the personal to the cultural…. In these texts, concrete action, dialogue, emotion, embodiment, spirituality, and self-consciousness are featured, appearing as relational and institutional stories affected by history, social structure, and culture, which themselves are dialectically revealed through action, feeling, thought, and language.

(Ellis & Bochner, 2000, p.739)

However, they then go on to list dozens of forms of autoethnography and discuss it as a contested term.

Increasingly, however…autoethnography has become the term of choice in describing studies and procedures that connect the personal to the cultural

(Ellis & Bochner, 2000, p.740)

 

Hat tip David Harris (2018)