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The Philosophy of The Story: Self-Disclosure and Ethical Codes in Autoethnography

Mehmet Ali Sevgi1
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1 Iğdır Üniversitesi, İlahiyat Fakültesi, Felsefe ve Din Bilimleri Bölümü 76000, Iğdır, Türkiye
BIJP 2024, 14(3), 835–854; https://doi.org/10.29228/beytulhikme.78057
Received: 24 August 2024 | Published online: 26 September 2024
© 2024 by the Authors. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution -Noncommercial 4.0 International License (CC-by the license) ( https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ )
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Abstract

Autoethnography is a method based on the instrumentalization of the researcher's own subjectivity. The fact that the researcher places his/her own experiences and emotions at the center of the research is emphasized as the most prominent feature that distinguishes autoethnography from traditional ethnographies. This study aims to discuss the theoretical, methodological, and ethical aspects of autoethnography, its potential in social sciences, and how texts that can be written with this method can be evaluated. In this context, this study aims to contribute to the debates on the politicization of representation in social sciences, to draw a general framework for the approaches of researchers who will use this method, and to discuss the ethical issues they should observe. Theoretical, formal, and ethical discussions of autoethnography, which is considered as an effective method in making cultural groups that are considered marginal, coded as the other and whose voices are lost among the strict rules of academic texts more visible, will contribute to the discussions that may arise on the use of the method in social sciences.

Keywords
Autoethnography
ethnography
privacy
representation
storytelling
personal experiences.
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