Autoethnography Is Queer

Qualitative tourism research: Opportunities in the emergent soft sciences

“…Comprising an approach that is normally critically sensitive to matters of intersubjectivity and fluidity, autoethnographers are frequently condemned for being (amongst other things) too personal, too sentimental, too political, and too theoretical (Adams & Holman Jones, 2008). Often being labelled as being slick deconstructors but poor constructors, they have to present their critiques to what one could call 'Doubting Thomas' audiences who are not comfortable with the indeterminacy that frequently populates autoethnographic storylines.…”

“No more blackface!” How can we get people to change their minds about Zwarte Piet?

“…Our stories depict attitude change from our distinctive life journeys, and by sharing them we hope to demonstrate how attitude change can occur in relation to Zwarte Piet and broader social injustice issues. This aim is also in line with the tenants of autoethnography, which sees the process of doing research as a political and sociallyconscious act (Adams & Holman Jones, 2008).…”

‘Muddying the space’: social justice, action research and professional learning

“…Auto-ethnography provides us with the opportunity to: connect cultural and personal worlds (Denshire 2010); systemically analyse personal experience; and conceptualise research practices as politically and socially oriented (Adams and Holman Jones 2008). The value of this is that auto-ethnography recognises the story of a professional as: complex, constitutive, meaningful phenomenon that [teaches] morals and ethics and [introduces] unique ways of thinking and feeling, and help[s] people make sense of themselves and others.…”