World-renowned autoethnographers Arthur P. Bochner and Carolyn Ellis present the first comprehensive text to introduce evocative autoethnography as a methodology and a way of life in the human sciences. Written as the story of a fictional workshop, they address key issues in a literary and pedagogical fashion and use numerous examples from their own work and other evocative autoethnographers.
This book takes a new pedagogy approach to teaching and learning in contemporary narrative therapy, based in autoethnography and storytelling. The individual client stories aim to paint each therapeutic meeting in such detail that the reader will come to feel as though they actually know the two or more people in the room.
This book takes a new pedagogy approach to teaching and learning in contemporary narrative therapy, based in autoethnography and storytelling. The individual client stories aim to paint each therapeutic meeting in such detail that the reader will come to feel as though they actually know the two or more people in the room.
The stories in Narrating Estrangement: Autoethnographies of Writing Of(f) Family demonstrate the pain, anguish, and even relief felt by those who contemplate estranging or who are estranged, whether by choice or circumstance.
The stories in Narrating Estrangement: Autoethnographies of Writing Of(f) Family demonstrate the pain, anguish, and even relief felt by those who contemplate estranging or who are estranged, whether by choice or circumstance.
This "book presents a collection of poems about life's end accompanied with narrative commentary. Organized as seventy-three lessons, they can be read as personal curiosities, momentary realizations, farcical departures, embarrassing fears, therapeutic encounters, experiential truths, hopeful conjectures, and inevitable destinations"--
Critical Autoethnography: Intersecting Cultural Identities in Everyday Life, Second Edition, examines the development of the field of critical autoethnography through the lens of social identity. Contributors situate interpersonal and intercultural experiences of gender, race, ethnicity, ability, citizenship, sexuality and spirituality.
Critical Autoethnography: Intersecting Cultural Identities in Everyday Life, Second Edition, examines the development of the field of critical autoethnography through the lens of social identity. Contributors situate interpersonal and intercultural experiences of gender, race, ethnicity, ability, citizenship, sexuality and spirituality.
Compelling personal stories of five diverse young women, plus the author s own autoethnographic narratives and analysis, vividly convey the lived experience of bullying to help understand how this form of violence shapes identity, relationships, interactions, and the construction of meaning among youth."
Weaving autoethnography, theoretical exposition, and a close examination of social trends, distinguished scholar Arthur P. Bochner shows how the theoretical paradigms in the human sciences have developed and changed over the past four decades.
Motivated by the death of his partner, the author seeks to redefine the closet as a relational construct between all people and all sexualities. The closet is explored at each stage--entering it, inhabiting it, and coming out of it--and strategies are offered for reframing difficult closet experiences.
How do academics survive the bureaucracy, the petty jealousies, the absurdities of operating in the university? More important, how do they, as humans, cope with the darker shadows that enter professional lives - illness, sorrow, death? This work shows you the survival strategies of The Trickster.
Narrates the life histories of members of the Red Thread Development Corporation, a group of women activists in the Caribbean. This book explores the impact of their work on these women's lives and, in the process, discovers differences of class and nation that overshadow the gender and race.
Laurie Charles finished her PhD, then took off to West Africa as a Peace Corps volunteer. Asked to create programs to help adolescent girls stay in school, she found herself enmeshed in the politics and cultural barriers that prevent these girls from creating a better life. This book presents her experiences as a volunteer in West Africa.
Both personal and theoretical, autoethnographic and analytical, this book offers a performative, arts-based narrative about the aftermath of abusive marriages, using the stories, drawings, songs of other women to compare with Tamas's own lived experience.
Explore with Ronald Pelias the physical space between people, and learn the metaphorical importance of leaning, in this personal, performative narrative about relationships.
Presents a unique exploration of the origins of performative social science and provides an intellectually rich overview of its significance in the field, as well as its evolving potential. The authors envision a broadening of the social sciences, making it more accessible to non-experts and opening up new dialogues between society and science.
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