“Intertwangerlings”: A Multiple (Auto) Ethnography of Journeys, Gentle Collisions-Hard Boundaries, Statues, and Tilt and Turn Gate/Bridges at the 13th International Congress of Qualitative Research

The article introduces the concept of the “intertwangle,” a concept grounded within the gentle collisions of delegates at the 13th International Congress for Qualitative Inquiry at the University of Illinois and the simultaneous retelling of multiple autoethnographies of such encounters. Through suc...

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Published in:Qualitative inquiry 2021-02, Vol.27 (2), p.292-302
Main Authors: Hodkinson, Alan, Houston, Ella, Denzin, Norman, Adams, Heather, Kirkpatrick, Davina, Kandemir, Asli, Maslen, Joseph, Mendus, Alys, Rhodes, Paul, Stronach, Ian
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Autoethnography
Collisions
Ethnography
Qualitative research
Storytelling
Uncertainty
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Summary:The article introduces the concept of the “intertwangle,” a concept grounded within the gentle collisions of delegates at the 13th International Congress for Qualitative Inquiry at the University of Illinois and the simultaneous retelling of multiple autoethnographies of such encounters. Through such encounters and “retellings,” perhaps a different way of thinking about autoethnography is developed. The article presents a story of a journey to and through the 13th Congress. A journey of no answers and no certainty—this journey is not a collaborative sharing of data but more of the gentle collisions and the recounting of different stories located within shared experiences. It is a simple journey bounded by way-markers of uncertainty, at times self-deprecation, loss, and death. It is a journey of new beginnings, of no ends—of uncertainty rather than certainty, revealing rather than obscuring and expanding rather than reducing.
ISSN:1077-8004
1552-7565
DOI:10.1177/1077800420911616