ABSTRACT
In its initial development, exo-autoethnography was established for the purpose of researching intergenerational trauma transmission in military families. Exo-autoethnography analyzes the impact of trauma transmission from parents to children through research participants’ experiences (and the experiences of the researcher who is an insider to the event being studied) of an upbringing influenced by parental trauma. This chapter examines and defines the exo-autoethnographic method for intergenerational trauma transmission research, using examples of the author’s research into the impact of the Soviet-Afghan War (1979–1989) on the first post-Soviet generation. Though the current focus of the method is on war-related trauma transmission, there is opportunity to adapt the methodology to other research areas, such as collective trauma analyses, family and community history, family migration, disability studies, and state-sanctioned violence.
