ABSTRACT
Autoethnographic work can and should be transformative, and using text and images has helped the authors map their physical journey and also plot the coordinates for a personal and creative recovery. If cartography is: “the drawing of charts or maps”, they regard autoethnographic cartography as a method for drawing their narratives that have shaped their experience of cancer and its impact on how they see themselves, their creativity. The authors new practice is a form of cartography, a map of our own making. The glorious East Sussex landscape is their terrain, but walking, talking, reflection and writing are their coordinates, and so this is some new path. The process of walking and talking has helped the author reflect on the effects of cancer and neoliberalism on who she is, how she works and how she lives.
