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Autoethnography As Constructionist Project, Laura L. Ellingson, Carolyn Ellis
Autoethnography As Constructionist Project, Laura L. Ellingson, Carolyn Ellis
Women's and Gender Studies
In this chapter, we explore autoethnography as a social constructionist project. We want to resist the tendency to dichotomize and instead explore how autoethnography makes connections between seemingly polar opposites. Though we see it as a sign of progress that authors desire to tease out differences in autoethnographic projects, we argue that concentrating on dichotomies is counterproductive, given that autoethnography by definition operates as a bridge, connecting autobiography and ethnography in order to study the intersection of self and others, self and culture.
After further detailing in this chapter the limits of dichotomous thinking, we sketch the meanings and goals …