Abstract
Auto-ethnography is a writing style with personal experiences interjected into ethnographic writing. As a form of self-narrative, auto-ethnography places the self within a social context. An interesting aspect of this genre is that the distinction between ethnographer and others becomes blurred. Auto-ethnography links the world of the author with the world of others. The main aim of my auto-ethnographies has been to link, to connect, human experiences. My stories gain their narrative power from the spaces in between these experiences. This linking and communicability of experiences is the core strength of auto-ethnography. Based on my own experiences as migrant, anthropologist and public intellectual, in this chapter I will explore what emerges from the space in between.
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Khosravi, S. (2016). Engaging Anthropology: An Auto-Ethnographic Approach. In: Bringa, T., Bendixsen, S. (eds) Engaged Anthropology. Approaches to Social Inequality and Difference. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-40484-4_3
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