Critical Autoethnography

A qualitative research method that combines personal narrative with critical analysis of systems of power, privilege, and oppression. Unlike traditional autoethnography, the critical variant explicitly interrogates how institutional, political, and cultural structures shape individual experiences of marginalization. In accessibility research, critical autoethnography provides a rigorous way for disabled and neurodivergent individuals to contribute first-person knowledge that is often excluded from conventional academic methods, making theoretical frameworks like Critical Disability Studies accessible through embodied storytelling.