Doing ethnography, being an ethnographer: The autoethnographic research process and i

Journal of Research Practice

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2010, Pages

  Mitra, Rahul ^a  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Autoethnography; Being; Doing; Performative writing; Reflexivity; Theory

Indexed keywords

EID: 78449292491     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1712851X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

References (48)

1. Alexander, B. K. (2003). (Re)visioning the ethnographic site: Interpretive ethnography as a method of pedagogical reflexivity and scholarly production. Qualitative Inquiry, 9, 416-441.
2. Alvesson, M., & Karreman, D. (2000). Varieties of discourse: On the study of organizations through discourse analysis. Human Relations, 53, 1125-1149.
3. Bakhtin, M. M. (1981). The dialogic imagination: Four essays (Michael Holquist, Ed.; Caryl Emerson & Michael Holquist, Trans.). Austin and London: University of Texas Press.
4. Baxter, L. A. (1988). A dialectical perspective of communication strategies in relationship development. In S. Duck (Ed.), Handbook of personal relationships (pp. 257-273). New York: Wiley.
5. Behar, R. (1997). The vulnerable observer: Anthropology that breaks your heart. Boston, MA: Beacon.
6. Berger, C. R. (1977). The covering law perspective as a theoretical basis for the study of human communication. Communication Quarterly, 25, 7-18.
7. Broadfoot, K., & Munshi, D. (2007). Diverse voices and alternative rationalities: Imagining forms of postcolonial organizational communication. Management Communication Quarterly, 21, 249-267.
8. Cappella, J. N., & Hornick, R. C. (2010). The importance of communication science in addressing core problems in public health. In D. Carbaugh & P. M. Buzzanell (Eds.), Distinctive qualities in communication research (pp. 73-86). New York: Routledge.
9. Carey, J. (1988). Communication as culture. London: Routledge.
10. Conquergood, D. (1991). Rethinking ethnography: Toward a critical cultural politics. Communication Monographs, 58, 179-194.
11. Deetz, S. (1992). Democracy in an age of corporate colonization: Developments in communication and the politics of everyday life. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press.
12. Deetz, S. (2005). Critical theory. In S. May & D. K. Mumby (Eds.), Engaging organizational communication theory & research: Multiple perspectives (pp. 85-111). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
13. Denzin, N. K. (2000). The practices and politics of interpretation. In N. K. Denzin & Y. S. Lincoln (Eds.), Handbook of qualitative research (pp. 897-922). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
14. Denzin, N. K. (2003). Performance ethnography: Critical pedagogy and the politics of culture. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
15. Ellis, C., & Bochner, A. P. (2000). Autoethnography, personal narrative, reflexivity: Researcher as subject. In N. K. Denzin & Y. S. Lincoln (Eds.), Handbook of qualitative research (pp. 733-768). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
16. Fay, B., & Moon, J. D. (1994). What would an adequate philosophy of social science look like? In M. Martin & L. C. McIntyre (Eds.), Readings in the philosophy of social science (pp. 21-35). Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
17. Freire, P. (1973). Education for critical consciousness. New York: Continuum.
18. Freire, P. (1977). Pedagogy in process. New York: Continuum.
19. Geertz, C. (1994). Thick description: Toward an interpretive theory of culture. In M. Martin & L. C. McIntyre (Eds.), Readings in the philosophy of social science (pp. 213-231). Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
20. Gergen, K. J. (1985). The social constructionist movement in modern psychology. American Psychologist, 40, 255-265.
21. Harding, S. (1998). Is science multicultural? Postcolonialisms, feminisms, and epistemologies. Bloomington: Indiana University Press.
22. Harding, S. (2004). A socially relevant philosophy of science? Resources from standpoint theory's controversiality. Hypatia, 19, 25-47.
23. Hooks, b. (2003). Teaching community: A pedagogy of hope. New York: Routledge.
24. Jarvie, I. C. (1977). Understanding and explanation in sociology and social anthropology. In F. R. Dallmayr & T. A. McCarthy (Eds.), Understanding and social inquiry (pp. 189-206). Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press.
25. Kuhn, T. S. (1998a). The nature and necessity of scientific revolutions. In M. Curd & J. A. Cover (Eds.), Philosophy of science: The central issues (pp. 86-101). New York: W. W. Norton.
26. Kuhn, T. S. (1998b). Objectivity, value judgment, and theory choice. In M. Curd & J. A. Cover (Eds.), Philosophy of science: The central issues (pp. 102-118). New York: W. W. Norton.
27. Lakatos, I. (1998). Science and pseudoscience. In M. Curd & J. A. Cover (Eds.), Philosophy of science: The central issues (pp. 20-26). New York: W. W. Norton.
28. Laumann, E. O., Gagnon, J. H, Michael, R. T., & Michaels, S. (1994). The social organization of sexuality. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press.
29. Mumby, D. K. (1988). Communication and power in organizations: Discourse, ideology, and domination. Norwood, NJ: Ablex.
30. Mumby, D. K. (2000). Common ground from the critical perspective: Overcoming binary oppositions. In S. R. Corman, & M. S. Poole (Eds.), Perspectives on organizational communication: Finding common ground (pp. 68-87). New York: Guilford.
31. Markham, A. N. (2005). "Go early ugly": Fragmented narrative and bricolage as interpretive method. Qualitative Inquiry, 11, 813-839.
32. Mitra, R. (2008, November). Scripting heteronormativity: Countering heteronormative practices in Midwest college classrooms through critical pedagogy. Paper presented at the annual convention of the National Communication Association, San Diego, CA.
33. Mitra, R. (2010). Performing heteronormative scripts in five acts. Manuscript submitted for publication.
34. Pavitt, C. (1999). The third way: Scientific realism and communication theory. Communication Theory, 9, 162-188.
35. Pelias, R. J. (2008). Performative writing as scholarship: An apology, an argument, an anecdote. Cultural Studies/Critical Methodologies, 5, 415-424.
36. Phillips, D. C. (2000). The expanded social scientist's bestiary: A guide to fabled threats to, and defenses of, naturalistic social science. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield.
37. Popper, K. (1998). Science: Conjectures and refutations. In M. Curd & J. A. Cover (Eds.), Philosophy of science: The central issues (pp. 3-10). New York: W. W. Norton.
38. Putnam, L. L. (2001). Shifting voices, oppositional discourses, and new visions for communication studies. Journal of Communication, 51, 38-51.
39. Ruse, M. (1998). Creation-science is not science. In M. Curd & J. A. Coer (Eds.), Philosophy of science: The central issues (pp. 38-47). New York: W. W. Norton.
40. Said, E. (1978). Orientalism. New York: Vintage.
41. Shiva, V. (1988). Reductionist science as epistemological violence. In A. Nandy (Ed.), Science, hegemony, and violence: A requiem for modernity (pp. 232-256). Calcutta, India: Oxford University Press.
42. Strauss, A., & Corbin, J. (1990). Basics of qualitative research: Grounded theory procedures and techniques. London: Sage.
43. Stroebe, W., & Kruglanski, A. W. (1989). Social psychology at epistemological cross-roads: On Gergen's choice. European Journal of Social Psychology, 19, 485-489.
44. Tuhiwai Smith, L. (1999). Decolonizing methodologies: Research and indigenous peoples. London: Zed.
45. Warren, J. T., & Fassett, D. L. (2002). (Re)constituting ethnographic identities. Qualitative Inquiry, 8, 575-590.
46. Weber, M. (1994). "Objectivity" in social science and social policy. In M. Martin & L. C. McIntyre (Eds.), Readings in the philosophy of social science (pp. 535-546). Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
47. Winch, P. (1977). Understanding a primitive society. In F. R. Dallmayr & T. A. McCarthy (Eds.), Understanding and social inquiry (pp. 159-188). Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press.
48. Yep, G. A. (2003). The violence of heteronormativity in communication studies: Notes on injury, healing, and queer world-making. Journal of Homosexuality, 45, 11-59.