Let's Get Personal: First-Generation Autoethnographers Reflect on Writing Personal Narratives

Carolyn S Ellis, A Bochner, N Denzin, H L Goodall, R Pelias, L Richardson

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Abstract

What is evidence in qualitative inquiry and how is it evaluated? What is true or false in research is strongly influenced by socially defined criteria and by the politics of academia. In providing an alternative to conservative science, qualitative researchers are often victimized by these politics. The use of qualitative evidence within the policy arena is also subject to social and political factors. Within qualitative inquiry itself, evidence is defined differently in different discourses—law, medicine, history, cultural, or performance studies. The interdisciplinary, international group of contributors to this volume address these questions in an attempt to create evidential criteria for qualitative work. Sponsored by the International Center for Qualitative Inquiry.

Original languageAmerican English
Title of host publicationQualitative Inquiry and the Politics of Evidence
StatePublished - 2008

Keywords

  • Qualitative
  • Qualitative Inquiry
  • First Generation Autoethnographers
  • Autoethnography
  • Ethnography
  • Narrative

Disciplines

  • Arts and Humanities
  • Communication
  • Quantitative, Qualitative, Comparative, and Historical Methodologies
  • Social History
  • Social Psychology and Interaction
  • Sociology

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