Hi Ailsa, thanks for posting the link to Agar’s article – it is a brilliant one and it provides something of a historicity (to borrow from Jean-Paul Sartre) or that makes me wonder to what extent researchers are actually aware of the politics of academic discourses they are part of, engaging in and subjected to? Agar provides us with a view that is very valuable, I believe, as he questions the methodological aspects as well as the institutional without ignoring the socio-political dimensions which shape the flow of resources available to researchers. I know you are critical of the the multiple layers of consciousness, Jeffrey, but after having read this, I see indeed more than one layer of consciousness that would need to inform autoethnographic work. Stuart Hall’s concept of the national unconscious could be useful in this regard.