Me, My*self and I: Personal and Professional Re-Constructions in Ethnographic Research

Abstract: Negotiating the tension of the various positions available for oneself in ethnographic research is the central issue of this paper. Constructing and re-constructing the very availability of different positions is a necessary element in this process and extends through all aspects of ethnography. However, this paper focuses on the construction of the narrative, as experienced in the actual doing of an ethnographic research project and the construction of my narratory self. At the heart of one of the many challenges I faced was my desire to move beyond a single authorial writing style in my thesis. How could I interweave multiple voices and realities into the telling of the story? How could I construct a place or places for my*self within it? How could I add the story of my own growth and development as a social researcher? I experimented with a number of representational strategies in my quest to make explicit my subjectivity and my*self-reflexive practices. One method involved cons.... https://www.qualitative-research.net/index.php/fqs/article/view/824

Object Details

• Location: Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Frankfurt am Main
• Extent: Online-Ressource
• Language: Englisch

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• Bibliographic citation: Me, My*self and I: Personal and Professional Re-Constructions in Ethnographic Research ; volume:3 ; number:3 ; day:30 ; month:09 ; year:2002 ; Forum qualitative Sozialforschung ; 3, Heft 3 (30.09.2002)

Contributors, Places and Time

• Creator: Day, Eileen

Further information

• DOI: 10.17169/fqs-3.3.824
• URN: urn:nbn:de:0114-fqs0203117
• Rights: Open Access; Der Zugriff auf das Objekt ist unbeschränkt möglich.
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