MC-DIP

As outlined in the previous post performance ethnography and the drive for an autobiographical element is associated by Chistrians, 2000) with 3 criteria: Interpretive sufficiency, representational adequacy, and authentic adequacy. Just need to extend further on the latter.

Lincoln (1995) proposes that we should ask if research work in this area: (1) reflects the authors personality (criterion of positionality)  in words; (2) addresses the community in which the research was conducted with (community); (3) engages with the marginalised and/or silenced through giving a voice (voice); (4) explores the author's interpretation of the situation, during, before, and after the research experience (critical subjectivity); and (5) demonstrates openness between researchers and participants (reciprocity).

If appropriately conceptualised performance ethnography has the potential to be a civic, participatory, collaborative project. It creates a situation of coparticipation in a common research and development project. In loose terms you could also say this is a form of particpatory action research. performance ethnography clearly pulls from various perspectives including: feminist approach to ethnography, traditional eastern theology on epistomology, and neo-Marxist approaches to community development and post modern relative views. The feminist and post modern are the main  influences of this type of qualitative research and seem to dominate research methodology thinking and Denzin along with many others reflect this push.