Hickey, Andrew 
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9862-6444 and Smith, Carly
(2020)
Working the aporia: ethnography, embodiment and the ethnographic self.
Qualitative Research, 20 (6).
pp. 819-836.
ISSN 1468-7941
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Abstract
A more considered sense of the embodied nature of encounter is called for in the scholarship of ethnography. This paper argues for an ethnographic practice that accordingly moves beyond simplistic recounts of ‘highly personalised styles and their self-absorbed mandates’ (Van Maanen, 2011: 73), to more fully position an understanding of the ethnographer’s Self as an also encountered ‘site’. Taking cues from Heideggar’s (2008/1927) formulation of Dasein and the realisation of the Self through the encountered Other, this paper argues that attempts to make sense of the Other in ethnography – ultimately the raison d’etre of ethnographic practice – concomitantly require an accounting-for of the Self. This paper takes aim at the nature of embodiment as central to the experience of encounter, but will argue that this encounter of the Self functions as an aporia: a site of unknowing, but equally, of generative possibility. It is with the effects that embodiment has and the inflections it provides for the ethnography that particular attention is given.
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| Item Type: | Article (Commonwealth Reporting Category C) |
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| Refereed: | Yes |
| Item Status: | Live Archive |
| Faculty/School / Institute/Centre: | Current - Faculty of Business, Education, Law and Arts - School of Humanities and Communication (1 Mar 2019 -) |
| Faculty/School / Institute/Centre: | Current - Faculty of Business, Education, Law and Arts - School of Humanities and Communication (1 Mar 2019 -) |
| Date Deposited: | 01 Jul 2020 01:58 |
| Last Modified: | 21 Apr 2021 06:26 |
| Uncontrolled Keywords: | Aporia; encounter; embodiment; Dasein; ethnographic self; emplaced ethnography |
| Fields of Research (2008): | 16 Studies in Human Society > 1608 Sociology > 160807 Sociological Methodology and Research Methods 20 Language, Communication and Culture > 2002 Cultural Studies > 200204 Cultural Theory |
| Fields of Research (2020): | 44 HUMAN SOCIETY > 4410 Sociology > 441006 Sociological methodology and research methods 47 LANGUAGE, COMMUNICATION AND CULTURE > 4702 Cultural studies > 470207 Cultural theory |
| Socio-Economic Objectives (2008): | E Expanding Knowledge > 97 Expanding Knowledge > 970116 Expanding Knowledge through Studies of Human Society |
| Identification Number or DOI: | https://doi.org/10.1177/1468794120906012 |
| URI: | http://eprints.usq.edu.au/id/eprint/38303 |
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