Autoethnographic Insights into Circular Economy: Lived Experience, Addiction, and the Ethics of Restoration

Samenvatting

Academic research has traditionally privileged etic (external) perspectives over emic (internal) perspectives rooted in lived experience. In the context of decolonial and epistemic sensitivity, there is growing recognition of the value of knowledge generated through life itself. This study contributes to that shift by opening epistemic space through auto-ethnographic inquiry, examining how lived experience can inform and deepen understandings in the field of circular economics.