To Be an Autoethnographer or Not to Be—That Is the Question

Lukasz Marciniak

doi:10.18778/1733-8077.18.4.10

Authors

Lukasz Marciniak University of Lodz, Poland https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4897-6868

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.18778/1733-8077.18.4.10

Keywords:

Autoethnography, Becoming, Evocation, Identity, Grounded Theory

Abstract

It is the most personal article I have ever written, revealing my fears, hesitations, reflections, and decisions. I am still striving to write a scientific and academic paper, still looking for that academic framework that would allow this article to be recognized as a scientific text, with the reflection on that internal pressure and need to make it scientific. This is an article about the process of becoming an autoethnographer, creating a tool, shaping identity and research strategy, and becoming one.

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Author Biography

Lukasz Marciniak, University of Lodz, Poland

Lukasz Marciniak (Ph.D. in Sociology) is an Assistant Professor at the University of Lodz, Department of Sociology of Organization and Management. The former Chair and Vice-Chair of the Qualitative Methods Research Network within the European Sociological Association (ESA) and co-founder of the Transdisciplinary Qualitative Research Symposium. He was a member of the Advisory Board of the SAGE Handbook of Grounded Theory (eds. Kathy Charmaz and Antony Bryant), editor of the translation of the Polish edition of the Handbook of the Qualitative Research (eds. Norman Denzin and Yvonne Lincoln). His current academic interests include research on altered states of consciousness, identity transformations, and communities of spiritually awakened. He specializes in qualitative social research, grounded theory methodology, social pragmatist inquiry, and systemic research.

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