Evocative Autoethnography
Writing Lives and Telling Stories
Published on 21. March 2016
332 pages
978-1-134-81587-6 (ISBN)
Description
This comprehensive text is the first to introduce evocative autoethnography as a methodology and a way of life in the human sciences. Using numerous examples from their work and others, world-renowned scholars Arthur Bochner and Carolyn Ellis, originators of the method, emphasize how to connect intellectually and emotionally to the lives of readers throughout the challenging process of representing lived experiences. Written as the story of a fictional workshop, based on many similar sessions led by the authors, it incorporates group discussions, common questions, and workshop handouts. The book:
describes the history, development, and purposes of evocative storytelling;
provides detailed instruction on becoming a story-writer and living a writing life;
examines fundamental ethical issues, dilemmas, and responsibilities;
illustrates ways ethnography intersects with autoethnography;
calls attention to how truth and memory figure into the works and lives of evocative autoethnographers.
describes the history, development, and purposes of evocative storytelling;
provides detailed instruction on becoming a story-writer and living a writing life;
examines fundamental ethical issues, dilemmas, and responsibilities;
illustrates ways ethnography intersects with autoethnography;
calls attention to how truth and memory figure into the works and lives of evocative autoethnographers.
Reviews / Votes
I have been engaged, as a teacher and researcher, with autoethnography for over a decade.Reading this book has me wish that I had encountered it back at the start; perhaps I could have
bypassed much of the confusion I experienced about issues such as paradigm wars, research
genres, the place of the "I" in research inquiry and such like.David Mc Cormack, Maynooth University, British Journal of Guidance & Counselling
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
File size
9,16 MB
ISBN-13
978-1-134-81587-6 (9781134815876)
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Persons
Arthur P. Bochner
Content
Part 1 Origins and History; session1 Coming to Autoethnography; session2 The Rise of Autoethnography; Part 2 Composing Evocative Stories; session3 Crafting Evocative Autoethnography; session4 Thinking with "Maternal Connections"; Part 3 Ethical Dilemmas and Ethnographic Choices; session5 Ethical Challenges; session6 Ethnographic Alternatives; Part 4 Narrative Truth: Meanings in Motion; session7 Thinking with "Bird on the Wire"; session8 Reflecting on Truth and Memory Work; Chapter 9 Coda: Restoring Harmony;
