Doing duoethnography: addressing essential methodological questions
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Date
2022
Authors
Burleigh, Dawn
Burm, Sarah
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Sage
Abstract
Duoethnography is a collaborative research methodology that invites researchers to serve as sites of inquiry. Through
juxtaposition, the voices of each researcher are made explicit, working in tandem to untangle and disrupt meanings about a
particular social phenomenon. We gravitate to duoethnography for its evocative power and the opportunity this methodology
provides to engage in meaningful self-study in the presence of another. Yet, we grapple with methodological issues related to the
unseen and unspoken enactments of the methodology. This article makes transparent the process of engaging in duoethnography
by modeling its polyvocal dialogic nature while simultaneously addressing five essential questions about this
collaborative research methodology. In this article, we retrace our collective journey engaging in duoethnography over the past
10 years, reflecting upon how our understanding and engagement with the methodology has shifted and expanded with each
new inquiry.We make visible what is often invisible in the process of doing duoethnography, explicitly discussing our process
for beginning and concluding a duoethnography, addressing what constitutes duoethnographic data, and the importance of
cultivating a trustworthy and safe dialogical space. This article contributes to the existing methodological literature on duoethnography
and further substantiates and generates transparency and teachability of this collaborative research approach.
Description
Open access article. Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International license (CC BY-NC 4.0) applies
Keywords
Duoethnography , Autoethnography , Ethnography , Focused ethnography , Methods in qualitative inquiry , Collaborative research , Narrative
Citation
Burleigh, D., & Burm, S. (2022). Doing duoethnography: Addressing essential methodological questions. International Journal of Qualitative Methods, 21. https://doi.org/10.1177/16094069221140876