Class 4: Autoethnographic Projects

from 5.1.08

pg 88: "Making sense of the sensations"

from 5.3.08

pg.101-102: I have the idea to interview others in similar positions. So for my PC book I can interview other evacuees, from East Timor and elsewhere.

Also, the acronym IRB came up. This has to do with getting permission to do a survey or project, Bekah told me. It will be brought up again later and explained.

pg 109: "In my experience men have a lot more trouble than women with talking about emotions and revealing their vulnerabilities.

pg 110: a list of male authoethnographical writers

* I still see Ellis' writing as amateurish, which distracts me at times. Perspectives shift, the dialogue is unnatural (long). Yet I know this is a simulation of a class, and perhaps this is the best way to tell this story. But why the writing bothers me is a good question. Maybe it's important to me to be able to write my stories without such distractions.

pg 110: "Like analysis, autoethnography often centers on pain."

pg 110: "Sometimes [the impetus for writing autoethonography] come from desire to remember and honor the past."