Curated by Abodid Sahoo
Research papersI keep coming back to.
Written by their respective authors, not by me. Collected here for their connections to autoethnography, photography, grief, memory and human emotions.
The reading shelf
Qualitative Methods
Argues that autoethnography is a qualitative, transformative research method due to its ability to change time, require vulnerability, foster empathy, and provide therapeutic benefits. Discusses these aspects using passages from an unpublished manuscript.
A book review of *Evocative Autoethnography: Writing Lives and Telling Stories* by Art Bochner and Carolyn Ellis. It praises the text for introducing the methodology as a "way of life" and as a terrific guide.
A comprehensive text that introduces evocative autoethnography as a methodology and a way of life in the human sciences. It describes the history, development, and purposes of evocative storytelling and is structured as a fictional workshop.
Develops the concept of "Heartful Autoethnography," seeking to include researchers' vulnerable selves, emotions, and bodies to produce evocative, detailed stories. The goal is to fuse social science with literature, encouraging compassion and empathy.
Highlights the "imperative" as a strategy to enhance writing practices, understanding writing as a performative material practice based on posthuman theories. Employs a critical collaborative autoethnographic methodology to explore writing as a method of inquiry.