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July 4, 2026Journal of Organizational Ethnography

The good, the bad and the ugly of comparative ethnographies: a junior ethnographer’s autoethnography

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HNHussein Nasser

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Analytic autoethnography explores method and ethics in comparative ethnography, highlighting implications for junior scholars.

Key Points

  • The aim is to examine the implications of comparative ethnography on method, ethics, and researcher identity from a junior scholar's viewpoint.
  • Utilized analytic autoethnography drawing on years of participant observation across two French migration-support associations.
  • Organized insights into a triadic heuristic categorizing opportunities, burdens, and ethical issues.
  • Focus on simultaneous fieldwork engagement.
  • Identified unique analytical advantages of comparative ethnography, such as enhanced data breadth and personal growth.
  • Revealed significant emotional and logistical costs, including cognitive overload and observer–participant entanglement.
  • Highlighted the disproportionate impact of these challenges on junior and multilingual researchers.

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Hussein Nasser (2026) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a48a57289561a0c2d78e1ebhttps://doi.org/10.1108/joe-08-2025-0108
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