Possibilities in Three Parts for Collaborative Futures in Autoethnography

Abstract

This speculative essay, divided into three sections, raises questions about the collaborative future of autoethnography while asserting the author’s continued commitment to the method. It starts by identifying collaborative practices in the author’s past, then moves to a series of possibilities for future practice, and ends by identifying autoethnographic orientations that the author endorses. Each section carries a note of skepticism about autoethnography’s efficacy.