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Title: Expedition (Auto)Ethnography: An Adventurer-Researcher's Journey
Language: English
Authors: Kennedy, Suzanne, MacPhail, Ann, Varley, Peter Justin
Source: Journal of Adventure Education and Outdoor Learning. 2019 19(3):187-201.
Availability: Routledge. Available from: Taylor & Francis, Ltd. 530 Walnut Street Suite 850, Philadelphia, PA 19106. Tel: 800-354-1420; Tel: 215-625-8900; Fax: 215-207-0050; Web site: http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals
Peer Reviewed: Y
Page Count: 15
Publication Date: 2019
Document Type: Journal Articles
Reports - Research
Descriptors: Adventure Education, Researchers, Barriers, Role, Ethnography, Experience, Research Skills, Water, Research Methodology
DOI: 10.1080/14729679.2018.1451757
ISSN: 1472-9679
Abstract: Adventure expeditions are characterised by their unique temporal and spatial separateness from the quotidian and their exploratory and oft times risky nature. As such they offer a multitude of possibilities in research terms for the inquisitive investigator. Few studies however have considered the researcher's experience of exploring such settings. Primarily methodological in focus, this paper examines the challenges and management of the adventure-researcher's multiple roles during a sea kayaking expedition. An expedition observation framework is constructed as a tool to aid the conceptualisation of the field. In a candid and reflexive social commentary, the relative and fluid positioning of the researcher in insider-outsider terms is probed and despite their nuanced differences, the interplay of ethnography and autoethnography in achieving this. The concept of existential authenticity as a complementary theoretical framework is used to illustrate the marginality and liminal nature of the adventure scape and the researcher's task within it.
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