“The goal is to practice an artful, poetic, and empathic social science in which readers can keep in their minds and feel in their bodies the complexities of concrete moments of lived experience”
As Geist-Martin et al say, doing collaborative autoethnography rejects the traditional approach of disembodied academic research. AE “challenges the hegemony of objectivity or the artificial distancing of self from one’s research subjects” (Change et al p. 18), because analyzing oneself is something no other research method does.

This is what I have been banging on about with my feeling about ‘science bound’. It is a question of choosing a means by which to tell or not ones’s story. For me all expressions of research or other expressions say more about the author and his/her context than the others studied. Who has access to the tools/methodology/money/communities to publish? How is that defined?

What concerns me in all of that is to what extent research in social sciences and education in particular is simply a reinforcement of a power structure rather than a means to critically evaluate and transform it. – LInks to Freire here.

The whole question of what constitutes ‘history’. The whole question of the limits of knowledge of what can be known.

How do we incorporate the views of people who wrote narratives in the autoethnog but who are not part of the team currently analyzing the data? It’s not autoethnog if we’re using their stories – they’re THEIR autoethnogs

As soon as I see/read/connect with others they become part of my story even if it is not explicit in what I express. I can see constant mirroring of expression/thought going on in rhizo14. Much of it is unconscious. When I learn a new language – can I cite each person with whom I learnt a new expression?

Example Parse – Jennifer Maddrell.

What is the continuum of authorship? When do I reference an influence? This is where I personally would like to go back and see how I am/have been mapping interaction in this dialogue space.

I have the strong feeling that this is about becoming researcher.