Abstract
This article develops the term meta-autoethnography to describe self-transformative narratives of border-crossings between paradigms and cultures. It focuses on one formative experience, a field trip by a Brazilian-Australian sociologist on a Brazilian urban sustainability project, planned within a positivistic framework, which went badly wrong. But the 'failure' revealed the complicity of the positivistic paradigm with local issues of ideology and identity, and generated a new openness to the study of Brazilian creative use of informal practices and flexible identities.
| Original language | English |
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| Number of pages | 13 |
| Journal | Culture and Organization |
| Publication status | Published - 2007 |
Keywords
- Brazil
- culture
- paradigms
- autoethnography
- positivism
- informal practices