ABSTRACT
This introduction presents an overview of key concepts covered in the subsequent chapters of this book. The book moves through a series of contexts in which autoethnography is queering contemporary global culture/s, and in turn how autoethnography is being queered. It expands a number of "complex and uncertain" theoretical concepts that "fascinate because they literally hit us or exert a pull on us": memorializing and mourning, readiness potential, public assembly, apocalypsis and precarity, transcoding, animacy and aliveness, intelligibility and queer futurities. Autoethnography has emerged as a methodology of interest to qualitative scholars in fields including communication, education, performance studies, creative writing, psychology, sociology, social work, political science, anthropology cultural studies and more. More than writing the experience of queer lives and relationships, in the book the authors take up the call to queer experience as a politics of writing lives and research, including autoethnography.
