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‘Put that in your fucking research’: reflexivity, ethnography and disability sport coaching

Abstract
Reflexivity is continually called for as a marker of quality ethnographic research. In this paper we put reflexivity to ‘work’, providing a critical commentary on data generated through ethnographic fieldwork in high-performance disability sport. Drawing on Bourdieu’s reflexive sociology, we situate the ethnographer in the field of disability sport, turning a reflexive lens onto the practices that are associated with occupying the role of coach and researcher simultaneously. We illustrate the centrality of researcher subjectivity – through the reflexive device of ‘crossing fields’ – as a productive resource for examining the social and intellectual unconscious embedded in the process of doing ethnographic research. In so doing, we provide a unique example of how reflexive practice can offer a rigorous, power-conscious reading of an ethnography of high-performance coaching in disability sport.
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Townsend, R. C., & Cushion, C. J. (2020). ‘Put that in your fucking research’: reflexivity, ethnography and disability sport coaching. Qualitative Research, 146879412093134–146879412093134. https://doi.org/10.1177/1468794120931349
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2020
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SAGE Publications
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This is an author’s accepted version of an article published in the journal: Qualitative Research. © 2020 the authors.