Tag: autoethnography

The 11th International Conference of Autoethnography will take place from Sunday 21st to Tuesday 23rd of July 2024 online (via zoom) and in person at The Engineer’s House, Clifton Village, Bristol, UK. We welcome traditional academic read papers, as well as installations, dance, music, poetry, films, messy text, collaborations and multimedia presentations around this year’s theme of Murmurations. The prompt behind our use of this metaphor comes from Elyse Pineau’s closing reflections at the 2023 Annual Conference.

Sport scholars have increasingly drawn on autoethnography in their interrogations of physical cultural practices and spaces of various kinds, shedding important light on the embodied experiences of these undertakings as well as the workings of power. The aim of this special issue is to delve into th potential of autoethnographies of physical culture to contribute to an anti-colonial movement, taking up the challenge that understanding sport as a ‘colonizing tool’ is not widely accepted in the discourse of sport sociology.

The 2019 British Autoethnography conference provides an inter-disciplinary space to explore different ways we come to know, understand and communicate. We hope novice and neophyte researchers will be supported to develop their practice alongside more experienced practitioners and we hope each of us is able to inspire, challenge, nurture each other while witnessing and responding to our presentations and performances. 

“Reimagining experience” provides an inter/cross disciplinary platform to explore different ways we come to know, understand, collaborate and communicate autoethnographic research. We have a large number of sessions/slots for presenters to exhibit/present their work, however, this number is not unlimited and when the timetable is full the conference submission will close.

Special Issue: Autoethnography, Autobiography, and Sport History Megan L. Popovic and Russell Field, Guest Editors Cultivating Communitas: Autoethnography, Reflexivity, and New Directions for Sport History Megan L....