Terrain, réflexivité et auto-ethnographie en géographie

Abstract

The goal of this text is to explore the role played by the « searching-subject » in the production of knowledge. In geography, such a reflexion brings up two intermingled questions: one is the nature fieldwork, as a source of information and of experience thus - of practices thereof ; the other is reflexivity, its nature and how it enlights the fieldwork and the researcher's positionning. Auto-ethnography is one sure way to deal with both. I focus here on what it is as a method and, more importantly, its narration. The fieldwork and geographic experience I am refering to is mine, that is North America, where I am from and through which I still tend to see the world.