Collaborative Autoethnography

by Heewon Chang

It sounds like a paradox: How do you engage in autoethnography collaboratively? Heewon Chang, Faith Ngunjiri, and Kathy-Ann Hernandez break new ground on this blossoming new array of research models, collectively labeled Collaborative Autoethnography. Their book serves as a practical guide by providing you with a variety of data collection, analytic, and writing techniques to conduct collaborative projects. It also answers your questions about the bigger picture: What advantages does a collaborative approach offer to autoethnography? What are some of the methodological, ethical, and interpersonal challenges you’ll encounter along the way? Model collaborative autoethnographies and writing prompts are included in the appendixes. This exceptional, in-depth resource will help you explore this exciting new frontier in qualitative methods.

200 pages, Hardcover

First published September 1, 2012

Reviews

[Michael Palkowski · Rating 3 out of 5]

Offers useful advice in data collection and writing. Sequential/concurrence/iterative for group projects and the addition of archival (personal) documents/interactive interviews for solo AE. I liked some of the prompting methods for writing about the self such as the idea of stir sticks and of sociograms, which could act as a visual aid in the research itself as well. Other areas of the book can be quite weak, but passable and acts as a good primer for collaborative projects.

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