From Birmingham, with Love: Understanding Personal and Professional Performances during Ethnographic Fieldwork

Using key matches as markers to examine the trajectory of these love affairs, I explore my experience balancing my roles?-and performances'-as researcher and fan over almost a decade of Villa fandom, a time period characterized by tremendous change both in my life and the team's fortunes....

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Published inLiminalities Vol. 14; no. 4; pp. 1 - 15
Main Author Coombs, Danielle Sarver
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Tampa Liminalities 01.01.2018
Subjects
Collaboration
Ethnography
Field study
Qualitative research
Researchers
Sports management
Writing
Birmingham England
United Kingdom > UK
England
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Summary:Using key matches as markers to examine the trajectory of these love affairs, I explore my experience balancing my roles?-and performances'-as researcher and fan over almost a decade of Villa fandom, a time period characterized by tremendous change both in my life and the team's fortunes. Recognizing that these stories are not just mine to tell, I followed the advice of other scholars to avoid writing as if my family and friends-'the other 'characters' in my narrative -'will never see what I have published; instead, I have imagined us with this manuscript in a pub, reading my recounting of memories together (Medford 2006; Tolich 2010) in order to ensure I "treat all persons mentioned in the text as vulnerable, including the researcher" (Tolich 2010, 1605). [...]relegated after years of flirting with the bottom three, I now have to follow Championship League news to find out about my Villa. [...]of the depth and breadth of these investigations, I was high in both Caring and Knowing.
ISSN:1557-2935