Over the past year, COVID-19 and the restrictions imposed in its wake have meant that a range of research methodologies involving social contact could no longer be pursued. Whilst this time has been challenging, this article aims to showcase how it nonetheless presents opportunities for methodological innovation that can be carried forward into the future. Drawing upon an autoethnographic dissertation that sought to conceptualize the researcher’s lived experience in Scotland’s lockdown as an assemblage that was situated within, and intersected with, the wider “lockdown cultural assemblage,” it proceeds chronologically from how the research began to inductively drawn findings on shifts to lived experience produced by the lockdown across five interrelated dimensions to lived experience: embodiment, spatiality, temporality, a changing vocabulary of sociality, and narratological environment and broader context. In recounting this journey, it demonstrates how assemblage theory can both benefit from, as well as transform, autoethnography as its primary methodological strategy.

在过去的一年里，COVID-19 和随之而来的限制意味着无法再追求一系列涉及社会接触的研究方法。虽然这段时间充满挑战，但本文旨在展示它如何为未来的方法创新提供机会。它借鉴了一篇试图将研究人员在苏格兰封锁期间的生活经历概念化为一个位于更广泛的“封锁文化集合”之内并与之相交的集合的自民族志论文，它从研究如何开始归纳得出关于转变的发现按时间顺序进行到生活体验的五个相互关联的维度上由封锁产生的生活体验：具身性、空间性、时间性、不断变化的社会性词汇、叙事环境和更广泛的语境。在讲述这一旅程时，它展示了组合理论如何既可以从作为其主要方法论策略的自我民族志中受益，也可以对其进行改造。