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	Kritisk autoetnografi	Kritisk etnografi
Ämnesområde	Kvalitativa metoder	Kvalitativa metoder
Familj	Process / pipeline	Process / pipeline
Ursprungsår	2000s–2010s (crystallised as named approach ~2012)	Late 20th century (~1980s–1993 systematisation)
Upphovsperson	Robin M. Boylorn, Mark P. Orbe (editors of foundational volume); D. Soyini Madison (critical ethnography lineage)	Jim Thomas (systematised); rooted in Frankfurt School critical theory (Adorno, Horkheimer) and feminist/postcolonial traditions
Typ	Qualitative research design	Qualitative research method
Ursprungskälla	Madison, D. S. (2005). Critical Ethnography: Method, Ethics, and Performance. Sage. ISBN: 978-0761929505	Thomas, J. (1993). Doing Critical Ethnography. Sage Publications.
Alias	CAE, critical auto-ethnography, critical self-ethnography, critical performative autoethnography	critical ethnographic research, critical qualitative ethnography, advocacy ethnography, emancipatory ethnography
Närliggande	6	6
Sammanfattning	Critical autoethnography combines the self-reflective personal narrative of autoethnography with the social-justice orientation of critical theory. The researcher uses their own lived experience as primary data to interrogate power structures, systemic inequalities, and cultural norms — treating the personal not merely as testimony but as a site for political and theoretical critique. It is widely used to center the voices of marginalized groups and challenge dominant social narratives.	Critical ethnography is a qualitative research approach that combines sustained fieldwork immersion with explicit critical theory to examine how power, inequality, and ideology shape the lived experiences of marginalised communities. Unlike conventional ethnography, which aims to describe a culture as it is, critical ethnography commits the researcher to questioning what is taken for granted and to producing knowledge that can serve as a resource for social change. Rooted in Frankfurt School critical theory and expanded through feminist, postcolonial, and race-critical traditions, it treats the research process itself as a political act.