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5. Autoethnography and Photo-Essay

Combining written word and photographs

Author : Nora Mariella Küttel

Published in: Raum und Bild - Strategien visueller raumbezogener Forschung

Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg

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Autoethnography can be described as a combination of autobiographical and ethnographic practices. It is a method that emphasizes the researcher’s emotions and experiences. For the most part, autoethnography comes in written form, based on introspection of one’s memory as well as on field notes, diary entries, drawings, or photographs. The visual material, however, is mostly regarded as a stimulant for emotional recall and not as autoethnography itself. The following contribution therefore explores how autoethnography and photography can be combined through the medium of the photo-essay. The photo-essay is based on fieldwork experiences in Detroit, MI, between 2016 and 2019. It is an attempt to question and unveil my positionality and the situatedness of (my) knowledge (production), aiming towards a more reflexive way of doing ethnography.

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Title: Autoethnography and Photo-Essay
Author: Nora Mariella Küttel
Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Book: Raum und Bild - Strategien visueller raumbezogener Forschung
Print ISBN: 978-3-662-61964-3

Electronic ISBN: 978-3-662-61965-0

Copyright Year: 2021
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-61965-0_5