D. Silverman,A Very Short, Fairly Interesting and Reasonably Cheap Book about Qualitative Research

‘I Thought… I Saw… I Heard…’: The Ethical and Moral Tensions of Auto/Biographically Opportunistic Research in Public Spaces

“…When constructing a story, the observational moment(s) chosen for inclusion may be relatively insignificant, part of the mundane or everyday (after Silverman, 2007) that goes unnoticed by others, or if noticed does not have the same meaning, and if it was retold in a story by someone else, would take a very different form. Humphreys highlights there are a number of closely related terms used to categorise stories like the one used here, citing '…narratives of the self (Richardson, 1994), self-stories (Denzin, 1989), first-person accounts 5 Hayes, 2014b (Ellis, 1998a), personal ethnography (Crawford, 1996, reflexive ethnography Bochner, 1996), andethnographic memoir (Tedlock, 1991)' (Humphreys, 2005, p.841).…”