A Different Perspective: Using Duoethnography to Examine Friendship

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Heather Bell
Heather Gibson

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Paper

Start Date

January 2012

End Date

January 2012

Abstract

Duoethnography is an extension of autobiography that is collaborative, and includes a dialogic conversation between two people who share experience with a particular phenomenon. This paper recounts our struggles and experiences in adapting a less well-known research technique to a new topic and context. The duoethnographic discussions were supplemented with participant photographs to help generate memories and stories. Data will be shared from a study examining the role of women-only leisure travel - „girlfriend getaways‟- in a long-term friendship between two women.

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A Different Perspective: Using Duoethnography to Examine Friendship

Duoethnography is an extension of autobiography that is collaborative, and includes a dialogic conversation between two people who share experience with a particular phenomenon. This paper recounts our struggles and experiences in adapting a less well-known research technique to a new topic and context. The duoethnographic discussions were supplemented with participant photographs to help generate memories and stories. Data will be shared from a study examining the role of women-only leisure travel - „girlfriend getaways‟- in a long-term friendship between two women.