HANDBOOK of AUTOETHNOGRAPHY Stacy Holman Jones, Tony E. Adams, and Carolyn Ellis Oz Press Walnut Creek, CalforniaLeft LEFT COAST PRESS, INC. Coast —_1630 North Main Street, #400 Press Walnut Creek, CA 94596 he wen LCoastPress.com Copyright © 2013 by Left Coast Press, Inc All rights reserved, No part of tis publication may be reproduced, stored ina retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying recording, or otherwise, without the prior permission of her ISBN 978-1-59874-600-6 hardback ISBN 978-1-61132-712-0 consumer eBook Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Holman Jones, Stacy Linn, 1966- Handbook of autoethnography / Stacy Holman Jones, Tony E Adams, and Carolyn Elis. pages em Includes bibliographical references, ISBN 978-1-59874-600-6 (hardback: alk. paper) —ISBN 978-1-61132-712-0 (consumer e008) |. Ethnology—Authorship. 2. Ethnology—Research:3. Ethnology--Methodology. | Tite. GN3077.H65 2013 305.8—de23, 2012048860 Printed in the United States of America (© The paper used inthis publication meets the minimum requirements of American National Stancard for information Sciences—Permanence of Paper for Printed Library Material, ANSUNISO 23948-1992, Ca Ad Inte Sta Se Av Anih. NE Rag Lincoln (ey ‘eam Ay 1 Ree oft te Quetta ‘110 Bir, sal Teor, 10, New Yor Education end an Kinetic ing consider Quarterly 17 Qualitative ck, CAs Lefe Chapter 3 Individual and Collaborative Autoethnography as Method A Social Scientist’s Perspective Heewon Chang Autoethnography is highly personal process. It is personal because the person- al experiences of rescarchers themselves are the foundation of autoethnography. Tris also 2 highly social process. Autoethnographers carefully examine how they have inceracted with other people within their socio-cultural contexts and how social forces have influenced their lived experiences. Therefore, in a public fight, autoethnographies reveal their author's personal, professional, relational, and socio-cultural identities, Authors’ scholarly orientations and the writing preferences cradling their stories also show. This chiapter will reflect my social scientis’s training and offer the perspective of an anthropological ethnogra- pher. Acknowledging that many others do autoethnography differently, I hope to add my perspective on what autoethnography is and how ic can be done. After defining autoethnography, I share the iterative process of autoethnogra- phy from deciding on a topic and research method, to collecting and analyzing ‘material, and finally to writing. I also share my on-going study of mentoring. and leadership as an illustration of my own autoethnographic practices. In addi- tion, understanding the inherently experimental spirit of autoethnography, I offer yet another ethnography experiment—mixing individual and collabora tive autocthnography. Handbook of Aucoehnography, edited by Stacy Holman Jones, Tony E. Adams, and Carolyn Ells, 107-122. © 2013 Left Coast Press, Inc.All rights reserved