Speaking into Silences: Autoethnography, Communication, and Applied Research

Tillmann, Lisa M.

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“…Hence, it facilitated me to explore the multi-hued account of the lived experiences of the self and make a deeper understanding of the social phenomenon during my stay in the UK. Rather than the style of academic report, I presented this paper in the style of research based story plots with auto/ethnographic narrative as one of the other ways of writing style of autoethnography as elucidated by Ellis and Bochner (2000) and Tillman (2009). They were based on the strong memories (and the feelings of the memories) of the characters I met and issues and tensions I experienced during my stay.…”

Section: Autoethnography: My Research Methodsmentioning

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Voyage from the Himalayas to the Highlands: Reflections in Technical Education

Bhurtel¹

2017

J Training & Devpt

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Section: Autoethnography: My Research Methodsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Voyage from the Himalayas to the Highlands: Reflections in Technical Education

Bhurtel¹

2017

J Training & Devpt

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“…Tillman (2009) observed how (while flourishing in disciplines such as sociology), it was still rare to find ethnographic accounts in communication and media studies, a situation that remains largely unchanged. This points to the fact that the study of media and popular culture, which has had to struggle for cultural legitimacy, may have seen itself as having a particularly uneasy relationship with autoethnography.…”

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Swivelling the spotlight: stardom, celebrity and ‘me’

2015

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Celebrity studies critiques the ways in which celebrity culture constructs discourses of authenticity and disclosure, offering the cultural and economic circulation of the 'private' self. Rarely, however, do we turn the spotlight on ourselves as not only scholars of stardom and celebrity, but also part of the audience. Autoethnography has become increasingly important across different disciplines, although its status within media and cultural studies is less visible and secure, not least because the emphasis on personal attachments to media forms may threaten the discipline's still contested claim to cultural legitimacy. The study of stars and celebrities has often found itself at the 'lower' end of this already debased continuum, perhaps making such tensions particularly acute. Based on three personal narratives of engagements with stars and celebrities, this co-authored article explores the potential relationships between autoethnography and celebrity studies, and considers the personal, intellectual, and political implications of bringing the scholar into the celebrity frame.

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“…This sentence was key, I think, to my developing anger surrounding the feminist work, as it created a space in which it was (and is) difficult to speak back: after all, anyone who did not feel that their gender offered the central explanation of their eating disorderat least as presented in the feminist accounts -would surely risk being accused of 'false consciousness'. In this regard, it is interesting that the work on anorexia (and bulimia) which preceded or emerged as part of the autoethnographic turn (Mukai, 1989;Tillman, 2009;Chatham-Carpenter, 2010) In line with common psychiatric perceptions of anorexia (Bruch, 1978, Crisp, 1980, I was not fat before developing an eating disorder. At nearly 5"8 and 10 stone, the most striking thing about me was probably my height.…”

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Between feminism and anorexia: An autoethnography

Holmes

2014

International Journal of Cultural Studies

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Critical feminist work on eating disorders has grown substantially since its establishment in the 1980s, and has increasingly incorporated the use of anorexic stories, voices and experiences. Yet rarely do such accounts offer the anorexic a space to respond to the now established feminist conceptions of the problem which structure the books or articles in which they appear. Anorexic, or recovered anorexic, voices are used by the researcher to interpret the role played by gender, even whilst the subjects are invited to respond to and critique, medical and popular discourses on the disorder. This lack of dialogue is all the more striking in the context of the feminist aim to fight 'back against the tendency to silence anorexic women's' own interpretations of their starving, treatment and construction (Saukko, 2008: 34). As someone who suffered from anorexia for 20 years, this article offers an autoethnographic account of my experience of encountering the feminist literature on anorexia in a bid to speak back, or enter into a dialogue between feminist politics and eating disorder experience.

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Speaking into Silences: Autoethnography, Communication, and Applied Research

Cited by 29 publications

References 14 publications

Voyage from the Himalayas to the Highlands: Reflections in Technical Education

Voyage from the Himalayas to the Highlands: Reflections in Technical Education

Swivelling the spotlight: stardom, celebrity and ‘me’

Between feminism and anorexia: An autoethnography

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