Qualitative Research Journal: Volume 16 Issue 3

Auto-, duo- and collaborative-ethnographies: “caring” in an audit culture climate

Robert E. Rinehart, Kerry Earl

– The purpose of this paper is to make a case for the strength of qualitative work, but more specifically for various kinds of ethnographies.

Outing autoethnography: an exploration of relational ethics in queer autoethnographic research

Kerri Mesner

The purpose of this paper is to open up a deeper, more complex discussion about ethical issues in queer autoethnography, by moving beyond either an outline of seminal…

Unearthing truths in duoethnographic method

Sandy Farquhar, Esther Fitzpatrick

The purpose of this paper is to engage with challenges the authors encountered in duoethnographic inquiry, including questions about what it means to tell the truth, and the…

The traveling researchers’ sisterhood: Four female voices from Latin America in a collaborative autoethnography

Pamela Zapata-Sepúlveda, Phiona Stanley, Mirliana Ramírez-Pereira, Michelle Espinoza-Lobos

The purpose of this paper is to present a collaborative (auto)ethnography that has emerged from the meeting of four academic researchers working with and from the heart in various…

Arias to academia: an academic malpractice suite in three movements

Allison Upshaw

The purpose of this paper is to explore the possible affects of personal traumas on the pedagogical practices of educators sometimes resulting in a type of pedagogical…

Doing it together: a story from the co-production field

Jacquie Kidd, Gareth Edwards

Co-production in the context of mental health research has become something of a buzzword to indicate a project where mental health service users and academics are in a research…

My dirty story about gardening: a visual autoethnography

Clive C. Pope

– The purpose of this paper is to promote visual autoethnography as a tool to explore and represent the captive qualities associated with gardening.

Autoethnography as a praxis of care – the promises and pitfalls of autoethnography as a commitment to care

Merel Visse, Alistair Niemeijer

– The purpose of this paper is to focus on the possibilities of autoethnography as a commitment to care and a social justice agenda (Denzin, 2014:p. x).