Bodies of/as Evidence in Autoethnography

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ID8084764
AuthorsTami Spry (0000-0002-2795-6024, corresponding author)
Year2009
Volume1
Issue4
Pages603-610
Publication date2009-02-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueInternational Review of Qualitative Research (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1940-8447 • E-ISSN: 1940-8455
PublisherSAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1525/irqr.2009.1.4.603
OpenAlexW2254376373
LanguageEN
Citations received29
References cited11

Qualitative researchers are aptly positioned to address issues implicated in the politics of evidence in scholarship. Autoethnography in particular carries important methodological implications for how the body is sited in what constitutes knowledge, evidence, and the evidence of knowledge. I argue that if autoethnography is epistemic, then the evidence of how we know what we know must reside in the aesthetic crafting of critical reflexion upon the body-as-evidence. As we develop “post” methodologies we may be in danger of expecting the personal or emotional to stand in for literary acumen. Performative autoethnography resides in the intersections of knowledge construction and art, in the aesthetic articulation of the performative body, in a personally political reflection whose evidence is an epistemic/aesthetic praxis. I utilize autoethnographic writing on loss and hope to operationalize the epistemic/aesthetic praxis as an ethical imperative for performative autoethnography

Aesthetics · Art · Articulation (sociology · Autoethnography · Epistemology · Operationalization · Performative utterance · Political science · Politics · Praxis · Scholarship · Social science · Sociology · Participatory Visual Research Methods · Posthumanist Ethics and Activism · Theatre and Performance Studies · Philosophy

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