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(Auto)ethnography and the Access to Others' Experiences: Positioning, Moving, Surpassing yourself

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  • Clara Roussey

    (Labex Entreprendre - UM - Université de Montpellier, UMR MOISA - Marchés, Organisations, Institutions et Stratégies d'Acteurs - Cirad - Centre de Coopération Internationale en Recherche Agronomique pour le Développement - CIHEAM-IAMM - Centre International de Hautes Etudes Agronomiques Méditerranéennes - Institut Agronomique Méditerranéen de Montpellier - CIHEAM - Centre International de Hautes Études Agronomiques Méditerranéennes - Montpellier SupAgro - Institut national d’études supérieures agronomiques de Montpellier - INRAE - Institut National de Recherche pour l’Agriculture, l’Alimentation et l’Environnement)

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More than the analysis of oppression or the sense of duty toward the oppressed the core political experience of our generation may well have been to go on such a voyage, discovering for ourselves this recognizable foreignness,this shimmering of life" (Rancière,2003,p.2).While the voyage mentioned by Rancière could be likened to ethnographic work, several questions are hard to figure out regarding what the voyager can do with this 'political experience' once back home, and how (s)he could produce knowledge from it. [...]it seems that trying to 'understand man by all of his experiences and achievements' (Lévi-Strauss, 1984) cannot be limited to having been there (Watson, 1999). [...]it was also autoethnogra-phy - challenging, tough, and rather unflattering (Jones, 2005) - and an exploration of the "reflexive connection between the researcher's and participants' lives" (Ellis, 2004, p, 30) that, in the end, allowed me to necessary and salutary surpassing of myself in aid of the translation of the words and pains collected on the way of my fieldwork. [...]I relate how my immersion in my field of studying a mining community in Indonesia led me to engage my body and emotions in the situation.

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  • Clara Roussey, 2020. "(Auto)ethnography and the Access to Others' Experiences: Positioning, Moving, Surpassing yourself," Post-Print hal-02997813, HAL.
    • Handle: RePEc:hal:journl:hal-02997813
    DOI: 10.37725/mgmt.v23i3.5380
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    ethnography; corporate social responsibility; story; interview; mine; indonesia;
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