ABSTRACT

International Perspectives on Autoethnographic Research and Practice is the first volume of international scholarship on autoethnography. This culturally and academically diverse collection combines perspectives on contemporary autoethnographic thinking from scholars working within a variety of disciplines, contexts, and formats. The first section provides an introduction and demonstration of the different types and uses of autoethnography, the second explores the potential issues and questions associated with its practice, and the third offers perspectives on evaluation and assessment. Concluding with a reflective discussion between the editors, this is the premier resource for researchers and students interested in autoethnography, life writing, and qualitative research.

chapter |11 pages

Introduction

A Place to Start

section 1|92 pages

Understanding Autoethnography

chapter |6 pages

Introduction

Outside, Walking In

chapter 2|9 pages

Telling and Not Telling

Sharing Stories in Therapeutic Spaces from the Other Side of the Room

chapter 5|12 pages

Working More and Communicating Less in Information Technology

Reframing the EVLN via Relational Dialectics

chapter 6|9 pages

Confession

section 2|94 pages

Doing and Representing Autoethnography

chapter |18 pages

Introduction

Voice, Ethics, and the Best of Autoethnographic Intentions (Or Writers, Readers, and the Spaces In-Between)

chapter 7|10 pages

Three Seconds Flat

Autoethnography within Commissioned Research and Evaluation Projects

chapter 8|15 pages

Metis-Body-Stage

Autoethnographical Explorations of Cunning Resistance in Intimate Abuse and Domestic Violence Narratives through Feminist Performance-Making

chapter 9|9 pages

Getting It Out There

(Un)comfortable Truths about Voice, Authorial Intent, and Audience Response in Autoethnography

chapter 11|10 pages

Where Does My Body Belong?

chapter 12|10 pages

For the Birds

Autoethnographic Entanglements

section 3|69 pages

Supervising, Sharing, and Evaluating Autoethnography

chapter |12 pages

Introduction

Supervising, Sharing, and Evaluating Autoethnography

chapter 14|7 pages

The Writing Group

chapter 15|10 pages

You Never Dance Alone

Supervising Autoethnography

chapter 16|6 pages

Writing Lesson(s)

chapter 18|11 pages

Happy Ways

The Writing Subject

chapter |11 pages

Assemblages

The Editors