Abstract
In this chapter, I draw on my own experiences of conducting educational
research in Vietnam and use Deleuze and Guattari’s concept of the assemblage
to present a mode of thinking about an autoethnographic Self that is
understood as an event: non-essential and constantly becoming in ways that
are irreducible to the subjective and personal. I argue that the autoethnographic
Self is a product of autoethnographic research; the deed rather than
doer. Not pre-existing, the autoethnographic Self is actualised within the
complex of cultural, social, and historical encounters between the researcher
and the researched, existing in a form of radical alliance from which both
researcher and researched are constantly produced and reproduced, constantly
becoming in ways that remain resistant to representation, meaning,
and understanding.
research in Vietnam and use Deleuze and Guattari’s concept of the assemblage
to present a mode of thinking about an autoethnographic Self that is
understood as an event: non-essential and constantly becoming in ways that
are irreducible to the subjective and personal. I argue that the autoethnographic
Self is a product of autoethnographic research; the deed rather than
doer. Not pre-existing, the autoethnographic Self is actualised within the
complex of cultural, social, and historical encounters between the researcher
and the researched, existing in a form of radical alliance from which both
researcher and researched are constantly produced and reproduced, constantly
becoming in ways that remain resistant to representation, meaning,
and understanding.
Original language | English |
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Title of host publication | Questions of Culture in Autoethnography |
Editors | Phiona Stanley, Greg Vass |
Place of Publication | Abingdon UK |
Publisher | Routledge |
Chapter | 4 |
Pages | 33-42 |
Number of pages | 10 |
Edition | 1st |
ISBN (Electronic) | 9781315178738 |
ISBN (Print) | 9781138919587, 9781138908642 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 2018 |