A Nomenclature for Critical Autoethnography in the Arena of Disciplinary Atomization. (December 2019)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Sughrua, William M.
• Is Part Of: Cultural studies, critical methodologies. Volume 19:Number 6(2019)
• Page Start: 429
• Page End: 465
• Publication Date: 2019-12
• Subjects: autoethnography -- ethnographies -- methodologies -- evocative autoethnography -- criticality -- atomization -- nomenclature; Culture -- Research -- Periodicals; Popular culture -- Research -- Periodicals; 306.05
• DOI: 10.1177/1532708619863459
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1532-7086

Abstract

This article proposes the nomenclatural shifting of "evocative" autoethnography (EVAT) from its apparent current position as a co-type of autoethnography to a lead or superordinate type of evocative-like autoethnography, with the suggested name of "critically-oriented evocative autoethnography as a methodology without methods and situated within critical qualitative inquiry" (CEAM-CQI). In this lead position, EVAT as CEAM-CQI could maintain a unified and mediated stance alongside its apparent nemesis, "analytical autoethnography" (ANAT), by way of "disciplinary atomization, " which at first seems undesirable but then proves beneficial if mediated by ego-less critique and polyvocality (Gergen), and as a result, EVAT, now CEAM-CQI, perhaps could more fully achieve its social justice agenda.