
Crafting Autoethnography
Processes and Practices of Making Self and Culture
Routledge (Publisher)
1st Edition
Published on 11. May 2023
Book
Paperback/Softback
242 pages
978-1-032-31333-7 (ISBN)
Description
This collection explores how autoethnography is made. Contributors from sociology, education, counselling, the visual arts, textiles, drama, music, and museum curation uncover and reflect on the processes and practices they engage in as they craft their autoethnographic artefacts. Each chapter explores a different material or media, together creating a rich and stimulating set of demonstrations, with the focus firmly on the practical accomplishment of texts/artefacts.
Theoretically, this book seeks to rectify the hierarchical separation of art and craft and of intellectual and practical cultural production, by collapsing distinctions between knowing and making. In relation to connections between personal experience and wider social and cultural phenomena, contributors address a variety of topics such as social class, family relationships and intergenerational transmission, loss, longing and grief, the neoliberal university, gender, sexuality, colonialism, race/ism, national identity, digital identities, indigenous ways of knowing/making and how these are 'storied', curated and presented to the public, and our relationship with the natural world. Contributors also offer insights into how the 'crafting space' is itself one of intellectual inquiry, debate, and reflection.
This is a core text for readers from both traditional and practice-based disciplines undertaking qualitative research methods/autoethnographic inquiry courses, as well as community-based practitioners and students. Readers interested in creative practice, practitioner-research and arts-based research in the social sciences and humanities will also benefit from this book.
Theoretically, this book seeks to rectify the hierarchical separation of art and craft and of intellectual and practical cultural production, by collapsing distinctions between knowing and making. In relation to connections between personal experience and wider social and cultural phenomena, contributors address a variety of topics such as social class, family relationships and intergenerational transmission, loss, longing and grief, the neoliberal university, gender, sexuality, colonialism, race/ism, national identity, digital identities, indigenous ways of knowing/making and how these are 'storied', curated and presented to the public, and our relationship with the natural world. Contributors also offer insights into how the 'crafting space' is itself one of intellectual inquiry, debate, and reflection.
This is a core text for readers from both traditional and practice-based disciplines undertaking qualitative research methods/autoethnographic inquiry courses, as well as community-based practitioners and students. Readers interested in creative practice, practitioner-research and arts-based research in the social sciences and humanities will also benefit from this book.
Reviews / Votes
"Practices and academic disciplines that are founded on skilled material engagement have lacked methods to bring to light what this engagement involves. From this perspective, the focus on the making of autoethnographies in Crafting Autoethnography provides an essential and welcome addition to the resources available for contemporary research and practice."Tom Fisher, Professor of Art and Design, Nottingham Trent University, UK
"This is a wonderful book! The go-to text on theorising, making/doing and reflecting on autoethnography in current times. A richly textured collection that is rooted in the history of the method and the importance of paying attention to the multifaceted ways we can work with personal and professional experience."
Maggie O'Neill, Professor in Sociology, University College Cork, Ireland
"This fascinating collection of intertwined and evocative autoethnographic creations is a welcome addition to a developing auto-methodological literature. In contrast to existing works, it offers readers grounded and rich insights into the art and crafting of autoethnographic making. It succeeds in drawing us in to the lifeworlds of autoethnographic creators."
Jacquelyn Allen-Collinson, Professor Emerita in Sociology & Physical Cultures, University of Lincoln, UK
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Postgraduate, Professional, Professional Reference, and Undergraduate Advanced
Illustrations
30 s/w Abbildungen, 29 s/w Photographien bzw. Rasterbilder, 1 s/w Zeichnung
1 Line drawings, black and white; 29 Halftones, black and white; 30 Illustrations, black and white
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 156 mm
Thickness: 14 mm
Weight
395 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-032-31333-7 (9781032313337)
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Processes and Practices of Making Self and Culture
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Crafting Autoethnography
Processes and Practices of Making Self and Culture
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Jackie Goode | Karen Lumsden | Jan Bradford
Crafting Autoethnography
Processes and Practices of Making Self and Culture
E-Book
05/2023
1st Edition
Routledge
€55.49
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Persons
Jackie Goode is a Visiting Fellow in Qualitative Research in the School of Social Sciences and Humanities, Loughborough University, UK.
Karen Lumsden is a Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Aberdeen, UK.
Jan Bradford completed her PhD at the University of Edinburgh, UK, and is an independent researcher.
Karen Lumsden is a Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Aberdeen, UK.
Jan Bradford completed her PhD at the University of Edinburgh, UK, and is an independent researcher.
Content
Introduction; Section I: This Writing Life 1. Shoring Up the Fragments 2. When the Slave Ships Came; Section II: Making a Drama Out of It Chapter 3. Reflections and Confessions on the Making of a Performative Autoethnography: University Professional Development Reviews and the Academic Self 4. Mi amigo Giovanni: A Digital Engagement of Friendship, Community and Queer Love Through a Zoom Performance; Section III: Crafting Selves 5. Thinking with our Hands while Becoming Autoethnographers 6. Putting Ourselves in the Picture: An Autoethnographic Approach to Photography Criticism 7. Digital Autoethnography: An Approach to Facilitate Reflective Practice in the Making and Performing of Visual Art 8. Stitching as Reflection and Resistance: The Use of a Stitch Journal During Doctoral Study 9. Making The Dreamer: Cut-ups, Decoupage and Narrative Assemblages of Interbeing and Becoming; Section IV: Creating Class 10. Hidden Time: An Autoethnographical Narrative on the Creation of Seven Working-Class Time Pieces 11: Coming Back to Class: The Remaking of an Academic Self; Section V: Place and Belonging 12. Walking as Knowing, Healing, and the (Re)making of Self 13. Where the River Flows Out to the Sea: A Story of Place-Making 14. Making Mistakes: Learning Through Embarrassment when Curating Indigenous Collections in UK Museums; Conclusion