Standing In the Wake: A Critical Auto/Ethnographic Exercise on Reflexivity
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
1-1-2011
Abstract
Using the metaphor of “standing in the wake” to represent a time after experience for critical reflection, this performative and autoethnographic text uses reflexivity as both the subject and the method of engagement, to explore the nature of reflexivity in ethnographic research; as well as the idiosyncratic and diverse ways in which ethnographers enact reflexivity in relation to definitional orientations and intents of ethnography itself. The essay is structured around three movements: “In the Wake of the Preconference: Per Se,” “In the Wake of Silence: Eulogies in/as Reflective Methodologies,” and “In the Wake of What’s Next: An Afterward in/ as/on Reflexivity.”
Original Publication Citation
Alexander, B. K. (2011). “Standing In the Wake: A Critical Auto/Ethnographic Exercise on Reflexivity.” Special Issue on “The Call of Ethnographic Reflexivity: Narrating the Self’s Presence in Ethnography,” (Eds.) K. Berry and R. Claire. Cultural Studies <--> Critical Methodologies, 11.2: 98-‐107.
Digital Commons @ LMU & LLS Citation
Alexander, Bryant Keith, "Standing In the Wake: A Critical Auto/Ethnographic Exercise on Reflexivity" (2011). Communication Studies Faculty Works. 58.
https://digitalcommons.lmu.edu/comm_fac/58
