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Crossing Paradigms: A Meta‐Autoethnography of a Fieldwork Trip to Brazil

This article develops the term meta‐autoethnography to describe self‐transformative narratives of border‐crossings between paradigms and cultures. It focuses on one formative experience, a field trip by a Brazilian‐Australian sociologist on a Brazilian urban sustainability project, planned within a positivistic framework, which went badly wrong. But the ‘failure’ revealed the complicity of the positivistic paradigm with local issues of ideology and identity, and generated a new openness to the study of Brazilian creative use of informal practices and flexible identities.