ABSTRACT
This final chapter brings the book to closure, while speaking to two key issues: Alec’s perception of autoethnography being absorbed into mainstream qualitative inquiry, and thus having its critical potential undermined, and Trude’s concerns about the rhetorical moral authority and responsibility of the ‘author’ role. From this discussion, an important question emerges that remains open for her and Alec and for readers of their book. This is how can they, as autoethnographic authors, be simultaneously critical and inviting, avoiding coming across as dictatorial and monologic in their eagerness to trouble themselves, each other, and the world?
