Handbook of Autoethnography / Edition 1

by Tony E. Adams, Stacy Holman Jones, Carolyn Ellis

Overview

In this definitive reference volume, almost fifty leading thinkers and practitioners of autoethnographic research-from four continents and a dozen disciplines-comprehensively cover its vision, opportunities and challenges. Chapters address the theory, history, and ethics of autoethnographic practice, representational and writing issues, the personal and relational concerns of the autoethnographer, and the link between researcher and social justice. A set of 13 exemplars show the use of these principles in action. Autoethnography is one of the most popularly practiced forms of qualitative research over the past 20 years, and this volume captures all its essential elements for graduate students and practicing researchers.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781598746013
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	02/28/2015
Edition description:	Reprint
Pages:	736
Product dimensions:	7.00(w) x 9.90(h) x 1.80(d)

About the Author

Stacy Holman Jones is Associate Professor, Graduate Coordinator, and Co-Director of the Performance Ensemble at California State University, Northridge. Her research focuses broadly on how performance constitutes socially, culturally, and politically resistive and transformative activity; how gender and desirous identities are created, made known, and negotiated; and how the work of feminism gets done in and though interpretive methods, especially cultural critique, critical autoethnography, and performative writing. She is the author of Kaleidoscope Notes: Writing Women’s Music and Organizational Culture (1998) and Torch Singing: Performing Resistance and Desire from Edith Piaf to Billie Holiday (2007). Stacy is the recipient of several research and teaching/mentoring awards, including the Janice Hocker Rushing Early Career Research Award and the Organization for the Study of Communication, Language, and Gender’s Feminist Teacher/Mentor Award. She teaches graduate courses in performance, feminist studies and qualitative methods, including performing ethnography and autoethnography.

Tony E. Adams is Assistant Professor in the Department of Communication, Media and Theatre at Northeastern Illinois University. Currently, he studies and teaches about interpersonal and family communication, qualitative research, communication theory, and sex, gender, and sexuality; he has published more than 30 articles, book chapters, and reviews in these areas. His book, Narrating the Closet: An Autoethnography of Same Sex Desire (2011), received the 2012 National Communication Association Ethnography Division Best Book Award and the 2012 Organization for the Study of Communication, Language, and Gender Outstanding Book Award.

Carolyn Ellis is ?Distinguished? ?P?rofessor of communication and sociology at the University of South Florida. She is honored to have received the 2012 Lifetime Achievement Award in Qualitative Inquiry from The International Center for Qualitative Inquiry. Her books are foundational to the study of autoethnography and include The Ethnographic I: A Methodological Novel about Autoethnography; Revision: Autoethnographic Reflections on Life and Work; and Music Autoethnographies: Making Autoethnography Sing/Making Music Personal.

Table of Contents

Preface: Carrying the Torch for Autoethnography, Carolyn Ellis Introduction: Coming to Know Autoethnography as More than a Method, Stacy Holman Jones, Tony Adams, and Carolyn EllisPART I: REFLECTING AND ENGAGINGPutting Meanings into Motion: Autoethnography’s Existential Calling, Art BochnerChapter 1. I Learn By Going: Modes of Inquiry, Leon Anderson and Bonne Glass-CoffinChapter 2. A History of Autoethographic Inquiry, Kitrina Douglas and David CarlessChapter 3. Autoethnography as a Mode of Inquiry: Connecting the Self to Society, Heewon ChangChapter 4. Interpretive Autoethnography, Norman DenzinChapter 5. Negotiating Our Postcolonial Selves: From The Ground To The Ivory Tower, Ambar Basu and Mohan DuttaExemplarsChapter 6. Walk, Walking, Talking Home, Devika ChawlaChapter 7. Sit With Your Legs Closed! And Other Sayins from My Childhood, Robin BoylornChapter 8. A Week Subject, Sophie TamasPART II: MAKING AND RELATINGCool Kids on the Quad, H. L. Goodall, Jr.Chapter 9. Spinning Autoethnographic Reflexivity, Cultural Critique, and Negotiating Selves, Keith BerryChapter 10. Sketching Subjectivities, Susanne Gannon Chapter 11. Self and Others: Ethics in Autoethnographic Research, Jillian TullisChapter 12. Relationships and Communities in Autoethnography, Faith Ngunjiri and Kathy-Ann HernandezChapter 13. Autoethnography as the Engagement of Self/Other, Self/Culture, Self/Politics, Selves/Futures, Jacquelyn Allen-CollinsonExemplarsChapter 14. Getting out of selves: An Assemblage/Ethnography, Jonathan Wyatt and Ken Gale Chapter 15. Fire: A Year in Poems, Mary WeemsChapter 16. How Global Is Queer? A Co-Autoethnography of Politics, Pedagogy and Theory in Drag,Sara Crawley and Nadzeya Husakouskaya Chapter 17. Sentimental Journey, Laurel RichardsonPART III: REPRESENTING, BREAKING, AND REMAKINGBraiding Evocative with Analytic Autoethnography, Barbara TedlockChapter 18. Reflections on Writing, Julia ColyarChapter 19. Writing Autoethnography: The Personal, Poetic, and Performative as Compositional Strategies, Ron PeliasChapter 20. Reflections on Writing Through Memory in Autoethnography, Grace GiorgioChapter 21. Mindful Autoethnography, Local Knowledges: Lessons from Family, Jeanine MingéChapter 22. Artful and Embodied Methods, Modes of Inquiry, and Forms of Representation,Brydie-Leigh BartleetExemplarsChapter 23. Writing My Way Through: Autoethnography, Identity, Hope, Chris Poulos Chapter 24. Wedding Album: An Anti-Heterosexist Performance Text, Lisa Tillmann Chapter 24. Putting the Body on the Line: Embodied Recovery Through Domestic Violence, Marilyn MettaPART IV: MOVING AND CHANGINGAutoethnography as a Mode of Knowing and a Way of Being,Andrew SparkesChapter 26. Autoethnographic Journeys: Performing Possibilities/Utopias/Futures,Deanna ShoemakerChapter 27. Teaching Autoethnography and Autoethnographic Pedagogy, Bryant AlexanderChapter 28. Autoethography as Praxis of Social Justice: Three Ontological Contexts,Satoshi Toyosaki and Sandy Pensoneau-ConwayChapter 29. Personal and Political Interventions via Autoethnography: Dualisms, Knowledge, Power, and Performativity in Research Relations, Keyan Tomaselli, Lauren Dyll-Myklebust, and Sjoerd van GrootheestChapter 30. Musings on Postcolonial Autoethnography: Telling the Tale of/through My Life, Archana PathakChapter 31. Evaluating (Evaluations of) Autoethnography, Craig Gingrich-PhilbrookExemplarsChapter 32 Twitch: A Performance of Chronic Liminality, Carol RamboChapter 33. A Glossary of Haunting, Eve Tuck and Christine ReeChapter 34. An Autoethnography of What Happens, Kathleen StewartConclusion: Storying our Future, Tony Adams, Stacy Holman Jones, and Carolyn Ellis

Editorial Reviews

The Handbook of Autoethnography provides the first comprehensive collection of autoethnographic scholarship illustrating the depth and breadth of autoethnographic praxis.  The authors offer clear and substantive pedagogic methodology as well as challenge the assumptions and scholarly parameters of autoethnography.  A must-read for the numerous disciplinary practitioners interested in the liberatory work of autoethnography.”

—Tami Spry, author of Body, Paper, Stage: Writing and Performing Autoethnography


“This dream-team of editors and authors do not disappoint. Handbook of Autoethnography is a beautiful, significant and inspiring collection that both synthesizes the field and expands it.”

—Patricia Leavy, independent researcher and novelist


“The Handbook of Autoethnography offers an invigorating set of ideas to the history, practice, and interpretation of lived experience. The serious treatment and strong focus on writing and reflection make this collection essential for emerging and experienced narrative scholars. I will certainly use this book in my Oral history, Life History and Biography Methods course.”

—Valerie J. Janesick, Professor, University of South Florida


“In this handbook, we not only learn about the personal stories of contributors but also the social world in which we are all situated. A text for all researchers and students across the humanities, social sciences, communication, education, social work, and health.”

—Pranee Liamputtong, La Trobe University



“This evocative volume reinforces the importance of storytelling and personal narrative in the social sciences.  It brings new insights to the applications of autoethnography in the twenty-first century and provides a valuable resource for practitioners of self-reflexive approaches.”

—Deborah Reed-Danahay, University at Buffalo, SUNY



“This is an excellent collection - my much-used hard cover copy is showing signs of wear (but no tear!) from doctoral student use and chapters in the book underpinned a number of revisions I recommended in a recent thesis examination. Highly recommended!”
—Jon Austin, University of Southern Queensland

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