Description
- This book shows that using only conventional methods, such as questionnaires and focus groups, is insufficient. Arguing that autoethnography can provide unique insights into users’ cultural experiences and needs, contributors to this volume introduce the reader to different types of autoethnography.
- It will empower librarians and information scientists to conceptualise topics for autoethnographic research, whilst also ensuring that they adhere to strict ethical guidelines.
- It demonstrates how to produce autoethnographic writing and stress the need to analyse autoethnographies produced by others.
Table of Contents
Part 1: Introduction to Autoethnography as a Research Method for Librarians
1. What is Autoethnography?
Ina Fourie
2. Practice to Theory: The Case for Autoethnography
Anne-Marie Deitering
Part 2: Different Types of Autoethnography
3. Evoking is as Evoking Does: Understanding the Work/Role of Evocative Autoethnography
Lisa P. Spinazola, Carolyn Ellis and Arthur Bochner
4. Analytic Autoethnography
Ina Fourie
5. Collaborative Autoethnography as Method and Praxis: Self-reflexivity, Sociocultural Understanding, and Beyond
Heewon Chang and Kathy-Ann Hernandez
Part 3: Challenges of Autoethnography
6. End-to-end Rigor in Autoethnography
Tim Gorichanaz
7. Ethical Challenges and Protection of Privacy
Anika Meyer and Ina Fourie
8. Supplementary and Alternative Methods: Dervin’s Sense-making Methodology
Christine Urquhart and Louisa Lam
Part 4: Authoethnography in Context
9. Autoethnography: A Tool for Cultural Competence and Working with Indigenous Communities
Fiona Blackburn
10. Autoethnography, Law Enforcement and Libraries
Naailah Parbhoo-Ebrahim and Ina Fourie
11. Caregiving and Autoethnography: A Librarian Perspective Reinforced by Experience as an Academic and Researcher
Olívia Pestana
Part 5: The Way Forward
12. Autoethnography, Personal Growth and Keeping Momentum
Ina Fourie
13. Concluding Remarks
