ABSTRACT
In this chapter, I draw on my own experiences of conducting educational research in Vietnam and use Deleuze and Guattari’s concept of the assemblage to present a mode of thinking about an autoethnographic Self that is understood as an event: non-essential and constantly becoming in ways that are irreducible to the subjective and personal. I argue that the autoethnographic Self is a product of autoethnographic research; the deed rather than doer. Not pre-existing, the autoethnographic Self is actualised within the complex of cultural, social, and historical encounters between the researcher and the researched, existing in a form of radical alliance from which both researcher and researched are constantly produced and reproduced, constantly becoming in ways that remain resistant to epresentation, meaning, and understanding.
