Editing Ethnography (section)

===Autoethnography===
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Autoethnography is a form of ethnographic research in which a researcher connects personal experiences to wider cultural, political, and social meanings and understandings.<ref name=":21">{{Cite book |last=Levy |first=Patricia |title=Method Meets Art: Arts-Based Research Practice |publisher=The Guilford Ford |year=2020 |isbn=978-1-4625-3897-3 |edition=3rd |language=English}}</ref><ref name=":4">{{Cite book |last=Maréchal |first=Garance |title=Encyclopedia of case study research. Volume 2 |date=2010 |publisher=SAGE |isbn=978-1-4522-6572-8 |editor-last=Mills |editor-first=Albert J. |location=Los Angeles [Calif.] |pages=43–45 |chapter=Autoethnography |oclc=811140520 |editor-last2=Durepos |editor-first2=Gabrielle |editor-last3=Wiebe |editor-first3=Elden}}</ref><ref name=":5">{{Cite book |last=Ellis |first=Carolyn |title=The ethnographic I: a methodological novel about autoethnography |date=2004 |publisher=AltaMira Press |isbn=0-7591-0050-0 |location=Walnut Creek, CA |oclc=52845847}}</ref><ref name=":22">{{Cite book |last1=Adams |first1=Tony E. |title=Autoethnography |last2=Jones |first2=Stacy Holman |last3=Ellis |first3=Carolyn |date=2015 |publisher=Oxford University Press |isbn=978-0-19-997210-4 |location=New York, New York |language=English |oclc=891397276}}</ref>  According to Adams et al., autoethnography

# uses a researcher's personal experience to describe and critique cultural beliefs, practices, and experiences;
# acknowledges and values a researcher's relationships with others
# uses deep and careful self-reflection—typically referred to as "reflexivity"—to name and interrogate the intersections between self and society, the particular and the general, the personal and the political
# shows people in the process of figuring out what to do, how to live, and the meaning of their struggles
# balances intellectual and methodological rigor, emotion, and creativity
# strives for social justice and to make life better.<ref name=":24">{{Citation |last=Poulos |first=Christopher N. |title=Conceptual foundations of autoethnography. |date=2021 |work=Essentials of autoethnography. |pages=3–17 |place=Washington |publisher=American Psychological Association |language=en |doi=10.1037/0000222-001 |isbn=978-1-4338-3454-7 |s2cid=234961975}}</ref>

[[Arthur P. Bochner|Bochner]] and [[Carolyn Ellis|Ellis]] have also defined autoethnography as "an autobiographical genre of writing and research that displays multiple layers of consciousness, connecting the personal to the cultural."<ref name=":7">{{Cite book |last1=Bochner |first1=Arthur |url=https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/mono/10.4324/9781315545417/evocative-autoethnography-arthur-bochner-carolyn-ellis |title=Evocative Autoethnography: Writing Lives and Telling Stories |last2=Ellis |first2=Carolyn |publisher=Routledge |year=2016 |location=New York, New York |language=English |doi=10.4324/9781315545417|isbn=978-1-134-81587-6 }}</ref>{{Rp|page=65}} They further indicate that autoethnography is typically written in first-person and can "appear in a variety of forms," such as "short stories, poetry, fiction, novels, photographic essays, personal essays, journals, fragmented and layered writing, and social science prose."<ref name=":7" />{{Rp|page=65}}