Here Come the Naval Gazers - Definitions and Defenses for Auto/Ethnography

Gender, Time, and ‘Waiting’ in Everyday Academic Life

“…The practice and potential of autoethnography is in no way commonly agreed upon by the academic community. It has been diversely defined, ranging from a cultural study of one's own people (Hayano, 1979;Anderson, 2006), to a method which allows researchers to understand themselves in deeper ways, in turn enhancing their understanding of other issues (Hemmingson, 2008). Sitting somewhere between these descriptions, our use of an autoethnographical approach here springs from Lisa's use of autoethnography in her PhD research, prompted by a desire to get behind the dominant experiences and representations of time in everyday urban life (Bradley, 2015).…”

The revelation(s) of Asher Levi: An iconographic literacy event as a tool for the exploration of fragmented selves in new literacies studies after 9/11

“…This political identity was assigned to the service of the revelation of selves for personal serenity, critical social and political consciousness, and local, interpersonal activism that might resound through individual and collaborative efforts positioned to serve the greater good. Hemmingson (2008) presents a call to action for what he terms the Eighth Moment in qualitative research and notes that we "must find (or create) a method that best suits each lived experience" and "rebels against the colonists of social science" (p. 1). I find his call particularly crucial to the work of understanding dynamically the literate lives of marginalized individuals and groups in relationship to fragmentations and post 9/11 popular culture narratives.…”