Review: Symbiotic Autoethnography: Moving beyond the Boundaries of Qualitative Methodologies, by Liana Beattie

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Book Review| April 01 2023 Review: Symbiotic Autoethnography: Moving beyond the Boundaries of Qualitative Methodologies, by Liana Beattie Liana Beattie, Symbiotic Autoethnography: Moving beyond the Boundaries of Qualitative Methodologies, London & New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2022. 214 pages. $91.00, £81.00. ISBN HB: 978-1-3502-0138-5; ePDF: 978-1-3502-0160-6; eBook: 978-1-3502-0161-3. Jon Nixon Jon Nixon Visiting Professor, Middlesex University, London, UK nixonjon@live.co.uk Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar nixonjon@live.co.uk Journal of Autoethnography (2023) 4 (2): 305–308. https://doi.org/10.1525/joae.2023.4.2.305 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Jon Nixon; Review: Symbiotic Autoethnography: Moving beyond the Boundaries of Qualitative Methodologies, by Liana Beattie. Journal of Autoethnography 1 April 2023; 4 (2): 305–308. doi: https://doi.org/10.1525/joae.2023.4.2.305 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All ContentJournal of Autoethnography Search Symbiotic Autoethnography: Moving Beyond the Boundaries of Qualitative Research is a highly accessible as well as scholarly text that will be of interest to newcomers to the field of autoethnography as well as more seasoned readers of the various fields and subfields couched within that catch-all category “qualitative research.” It draws the various literatures relating to that category—and its subcategories—into a persuasive argument for an approach to ethnography that includes the experience of the writer/researcher as an element in any ethnographic inquiry, and, crucially, relates that experience symbiotically to the wider cultural, social, and—sometimes—political context. It is that last point, regarding the symbiotic nature of autoethnography, that gives to this book its theoretical edge and originality. The book is in large part a methodological reflection on the author’s earlier autoethnographic research focusing on how academics with Soviet backgrounds construct for themselves a notion of academic leadership within a Western and... You do not currently have access to this content.