Sky Ops Surprise

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ID17826570
AuthorsShawna Malvini Redden (0000-0002-7983-9735, corresponding author)
Year2015
Volume4
Issue1
Pages7-34
Publication date2015-01-01
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueDepartures in Critical Qualitative Research (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 2333-9489 • E-ISSN: 2333-9497
PublisherUniversity of California Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1525/dcqr.2015.4.1.7
OpenAlexW2319722404
LanguageEN
References cited16

Invoking the styling of classic spy stories, this essay provides an account of a commercial aviation emergency landing that blew the agent/author's “cover” as a full participant ethnographer. Using an experimental autoethnographic format, the piece offers an evocative portrayal of a perceived near-death experience and its aftermath, as well as critical commentary on writing autoethnography with a fictionalized framing. In the closing “debrief,” the author sheds her agent persona to describe the process of writing about traumatic events and to analyze how those events focus attention on methodological and ethical considerations for qualitative research

Aesthetics · Art · Autoethnography · Debriefing · Epistemology · Ethnography · Humanities · Media studies · Participant observation · Persona · Social science · Sociology · Subjectivity · Surprise · Visual arts · World trade center · Anthropology · Empathy and Medical Education · History · Participatory Visual Research Methods · Philosophy · Psychology · Qualitative Research Methods and Ethics · Social Psychology

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