Postethnography and cultural (sport) geography

In this article I reflect on my three years working as a lecturer in the Fiji Islands and conducting ethnography on soccer history at the same time. With this period in my life fading in my memory since it took place a decade ago, I then reflect on postethnography including short visits back to Fiji in 2017 and 2019. I recall various stories from my time in Fiji (2013-15) and then from my later two trips. I compare and contrast the time when I was fully committed to living and working in the island nation, integrating myself into the society, and blessing others through my research and charity (for want of a better word) and my time back on short visits when I had been “relegated” in my own and others’ minds to “just a tourist”. I explore the guilt, sense of loss and sense of disorientation on meeting old research participants now that my life had “moved on” (as had theirs) and we were no longer sharing life experiences.