Autoethnography and Performance Ethnography: Paradigms, Problematics/Pragmatics, and Possibilities

Session Submission Type: Panel Discussion

Abstract

This roundtable discussion highlights the dialectical relationship between performance ethnography and autoethnography. As performance ethnographers take autoethnography to task, it is pertinent to discuss how the two are different/alike not only as methods, but also as modes of ethics. This panel will probe the worldviews of autoethnography and performance ethnography, the problematics/pragmatics of utilizing these methods or orientations, and the possibilities each holds for the future of performance studies and ethnographic scholarship.

Sub Unit

• Ethnography Division

Chair

• Richard G. Jones, Jr., University of Denver

• Rachel A Griffin, University of Denver

Respondent

• Brandon Dean Stow, University of Denver

• Chih-Yun Chiang, University of Denver

• Jolene Collins, University of Denver

• Patrick Shaou-Whea Dodge, University of Denver

• Kristine Reyes, University of Denver

• Amy Zsohar, University of Denver

Session Organizer

• Brandon Dean Stow, University of Denver