Review: An Autoethnography of Becoming a Qualitative Researcher: A Dialogic View of Academic Development, by Trude Klevan and Alec Grant

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Book Review| October 01 2023 Review: An Autoethnography of Becoming a Qualitative Researcher: A Dialogic View of Academic Development, by Trude Klevan and Alec Grant Trude Klevan and Alec Grant, An Autoethnography of Becoming a Qualitative Researcher: A Dialogic View of Academic Development. London: Routledge, 2022. 166 pages. 2 BW illustrations. $49.95 (paperback). ISBN 9780367425135 Rose Richards Rose Richards Stellenbosch University rr2@sun.ac.za Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar rr2@sun.ac.za Journal of Autoethnography (2023) 4 (4): 594–597. https://doi.org/10.1525/joae.2023.4.4.594 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Rose Richards; Review: An Autoethnography of Becoming a Qualitative Researcher: A Dialogic View of Academic Development, by Trude Klevan and Alec Grant. Journal of Autoethnography 1 October 2023; 4 (4): 594–597. doi: https://doi.org/10.1525/joae.2023.4.4.594 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All ContentJournal of Autoethnography Search One of the questions I’m often asked as an autoethnographer is, “But how do you do autoethnography?” When they ask this, people mean, “What’s the recipe?,” and they want to know about pragmatic things like how to analyze data. What always ends up being omitted from these conversations is a discussion about the philosophical underpinning of autoethnography. This is troubling because that underpinning is essential to how one actually does autoethnography. So, when the opportunity arose to review Klevan and Grant’s book, The Autoethnography of Becoming a Qualitative Researcher, I leapt at it. This slim volume contains an immense amount of information. The work starts with the premise that “qualitative inquiry knowledge development, acquisition, and collaboration are best mediated by the epistemic resource of friendship.”1 I like this for many reasons. One is that it emphasizes the “community” part of “academic community,” the half of the concept most... You do not currently have access to this content.