ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses the embodied elements of the researcher’s reflexive and autoethnographic accounts to become both ‘audible’ and ‘visible’ through the expression of a ‘performed story’. It focuses on some of the practical considerations regarding performing ‘autoethnography’ and ‘reflexivity’. Reflexivity and autoethnography become an act of self-referral designed to generate some level of accountability between the researcher and the subjects of the inquiry. The chapter aims to give researchers an insight into Martin glynn's journey in relation to presenting his subjective experiences as a researcher by using case examples of his approach using methods such as: ethnodrama, spontaneous poetics, spoken word, and data verbalization. E. Goffman’s 1959 notion of ‘the presentation of self’ similarly acts as a ‘researcher’s metaphor’ when presenting embodied experiences through performance. The future for researching communities should involve listening and hearing the researcher’s counter-narrative/s that must address itself to the process of both social and political change.
