Research Article| September 21 2020 Living with the Risks of Critical Autoethnography Helena Liu Helena Liu Helena Liu is a senior lecturer at UTS Business School in Sydney, Australia. Her research critiques the gendered, racialized, and classed nature of our enduring romance with leadership. Her first book, Redeeming Leadership: An Anti-Racist Feminist Intervention, was recently published at Bristol University Press. Helena’s autoethnographies have been featured in journals such as Organization, Equality, Diversity and Inclusion, Culture & Organization, and ephemera. email: helena.liu@uts.edu.au Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Journal of Autoethnography (2020) 1 (4): 420–424. https://doi.org/10.1525/joae.2020.1.4.420 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Helena Liu; Living with the Risks of Critical Autoethnography. Journal of Autoethnography 21 September 2020; 1 (4): 420–424. doi: https://doi.org/10.1525/joae.2020.1.4.420 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search nav search search input Search input auto suggest search filter All ContentJournal of Autoethnography Search When I first learned of autoethnography four years ago through a colleague and friend, I was instantly arrested by what seemed like the most sensible and natural way to write about my work. Now it has become almost something of a cliché to describe autoethnography as a “powerful method,” as a growing number of scholars take up this approach to better understand work and society. The reflexive nature of autoethnography felt like a comfortable fit in my early development as a critical management scholar. Located within the broader discipline of organization studies, critical management studies enjoys a tradition of speaking against the corruptions of business. The field began with primarily Marxist scholars concerned with the rise of neoliberal capitalism,1 and has since grown to encompass critiques against the diverse injustices in work and society, including heteropatriarchy, imperialism, and... © 2020 by The Regents of the University of California2020 You do not currently have access to this content.