ABSTRACT
Awards
2023 H.L. “Bud” Goodall, Jr. and Nick Trujillo “It’s a Way of Life” Award in Narrative Ethnography from the International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry.
“Meditations on the Story I Cannot Write: Reflexivity, Autoethnography, and the Possibilities of Maybe,” received the 2023 National Communication Association's Ethnography Division Best Book Chapter Award.
The second edition of the award-winning Handbook of Autoethnography is a thematically organized volume that contextualizes contemporary practices of autoethnography and examines how the field has developed since the publication of the first edition in 2013. Throughout, contributors identify key autoethnographic themes and commitments and offer examples of diverse, thoughtful, effective, applied, and innovative autoethnography.
The second edition is organized into five sections:
- In Section 1, Doing Autoethnography, contributors explore definitions of autoethnography, identify and demonstrate key features of autoethnography, and engage philosophical, relational, cultural, and ethical foundations of autoethnographic practice.
- In Section 2, Representing Autoethnography, contributors discuss forms and techniques for the process and craft of creating autoethnographic projects, using various media in/as autoethnography, and marking and making visible particular identities, knowledges, and voices.
- In Section 3, Teaching, Evaluating, and Publishing Autoethnography, contributors focus on supporting and supervising autoethnographic projects. They also offer perspectives on publishing and evaluating autoethnography.
- In Section 4, Challenges and Futures of Autoethnography, contributors consider contemporary challenges for autoethnography, including understanding autoethnography as a feminist, posthumanist, and decolonialist practice, as well as a method for studying texts, translations, and traumas.
- The volume concludes with Section 5, Autoethnographic Exemplars, a collection of sixteen classic and contemporary texts that can serve as models of autoethnographic scholarship.
With contributions from more than 50 authors representing more than a dozen disciplines and writing from various locations around the world, the handbook develops, refines, and expands autoethnographic inquiry and qualitative research. This text will be a primary resource for novice and advanced researchers alike in a wide range of social science disciplines.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
chapter |19 pages
Introduction
part Section 1|93 pages
Doing Autoethnography
chapter Chapter one|12 pages
Meditations on the Story I Cannot Write
chapter Chapter three|13 pages
Individual and Collaborative Autoethnography for Social Science Research
chapter Chapter five|10 pages
Frank and the Gift, or the Untold Told
chapter Chapter six|11 pages
Border Smugglers
part Section 2|93 pages
Representing Autoethnography
chapter |4 pages
Section Introduction
chapter Chapter eight|12 pages
Writing Autoethnography
chapter Chapter nine|13 pages
Artistic Autoethnography
chapter Chapter ten|7 pages
How Intersectional Autoethnography Saved My Life
chapter Chapter eleven|11 pages
Collaborative Autoethnography
chapter Chapter thirteen|9 pages
Exo-Autoethnography as Method for Research on Intergenerational Trauma Transmission
part Section 3|79 pages
Teaching, Evaluating, and Publishing Autoethnography
chapter |3 pages
Section Introduction
chapter Chapter sixteen|11 pages
Embracing Autoethnographic Anxiety
chapter Chapter seventeen|8 pages
Thinking Through Rejection
chapter Chapter nineteen|14 pages
When Judgment Calls
part Section 4|78 pages
Challenges and Futures of Autoethnography
chapter Chapter twenty two|8 pages
Naming and Reclaiming Decolonial, Feminist, Performative, and Other Approaches to Critical Autoethnography
chapter Chapter twenty five|13 pages
Writing Feminist Autoethnography
chapter Chapter twenty six|12 pages
Girl, Disrupted
part Section 5|160 pages
Autoethnographic Exemplars