Book contents
- The Cambridge Handbook of Identity
- The Cambridge Handbook of Identity
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Contributors
- 1 Identity: With or Without You?
- Part I The Origin and Development of the Concept of Identity
- Part II New Perspectives and Challenges
- Part III Methodological Approaches
- 11 A Narrative Practice Approach to Identities: Small Stories and Positioning Analysis in Digital Contexts
- 12 Conversation Analysis and Ethnomethodology: Identity at Stake in a Kinship Carers’ Support Group
- 13 Foucauldian-Informed Discourse Analysis
- 14 A Methodology to Examine Identity: Multimodal (Inter)action Analysis
- 15 Autoethnography
- 16 A Sociocultural Approach to Identity through Diary Studies
- 17 Positioning Microanalysis: A Method For the Study of Dynamics in the Dialogical Self and Identity
- 18 Synthesized or Confused Field? A Critical Analysis of the State-of-the-Art in Identity Status Research Methods
- 19 Criminals’ Narrative Identity
- 20 Experimentation within the Social Identity Approach: History, Highlights, and Hurdles
- Part IV Current Domains
- Part V Where Is Identity?
- Author Index
- Subject Index
- References
15 - Autoethnography
from Part III - Methodological Approaches
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 29 October 2021
- The Cambridge Handbook of Identity
- The Cambridge Handbook of Identity
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Contributors
- 1 Identity: With or Without You?
- Part I The Origin and Development of the Concept of Identity
- Part II New Perspectives and Challenges
- Part III Methodological Approaches
- 11 A Narrative Practice Approach to Identities: Small Stories and Positioning Analysis in Digital Contexts
- 12 Conversation Analysis and Ethnomethodology: Identity at Stake in a Kinship Carers’ Support Group
- 13 Foucauldian-Informed Discourse Analysis
- 14 A Methodology to Examine Identity: Multimodal (Inter)action Analysis
- 15 Autoethnography
- 16 A Sociocultural Approach to Identity through Diary Studies
- 17 Positioning Microanalysis: A Method For the Study of Dynamics in the Dialogical Self and Identity
- 18 Synthesized or Confused Field? A Critical Analysis of the State-of-the-Art in Identity Status Research Methods
- 19 Criminals’ Narrative Identity
- 20 Experimentation within the Social Identity Approach: History, Highlights, and Hurdles
- Part IV Current Domains
- Part V Where Is Identity?
- Author Index
- Subject Index
- References
Summary
When examining video ethnographic data, as well as interviews, and fieldnotes, the researcher examines the situated nature of participants’ production of identity elements in action and interaction through the analysis of the various kinds of mediated action on the micro level. In addition, the researcher can utilize the analytical tool, layers of discourse, in order to analyze the immediate identity element production (produced in the moment), link it to the continuous identity element production (produced within and with the networks of the participant), and link it to the general identity element production (produced within and with institutions and/or society that the performer belongs to). Thereby situated identity elements can clearly be shown to link to the concrete socio-historically and socioculturally embeddedness on the meso and the macro levels. In this chapter, we shall exemplify these analytical tools through two transcripts depicting one participant from a larger ethnographically informed study.
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- The Cambridge Handbook of Identity , pp. 324 - 344Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2021