This series delves into the depths of human experience through compelling ethnographic and autoethnographic narratives. It explores the intricate connection between living and writing, offering intimate insights across various humanistic and social science disciplines. Each book is a masterful work that blurs the lines between theory and practice, presenting readers with innovative storytelling forms that capture authentic human stories.
This comprehensive text is the first to introduce evocative autoethnography as a methodology and a way of life in the human sciences.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.
Tataihono - Stories of Maori Healing and Psychiatry
Focusing on bicultural partnership frameworks, this book presents a collection of interviews and reflective meditations that explore their potential to enhance mental health treatment. It emphasizes the importance of integrating local cultural imperatives with effective psychiatric care, showcasing how this approach can lead to more holistic and effective mental health practices.
Exploring the profound themes of aging and mortality, this collection offers a poignant blend of poetry and narrative commentary. It reflects on the experiences of the elderly as they confront the realities of life’s conclusion. Through evocative verses, the author delves into the emotional landscape of aging and dying, providing insight and resonance for readers navigating similar journeys.
After suffering a severe stroke, acclaimed qualitative scholar Jane Speedy took to her iPad to write and draw as a way of making sense of her experience and to aid her recovery. The stunning fragmented poetic text and images comprising Staring at the Park depict the events of this difficult journey and an alternative model of evocative, artistic autoethnography.
Young, Gifted and Fat is an autoethnography of 'performing thin' - on the stage and in life. Sharrell Luckett's story of weight loss and gain and playing the (beautiful, desirable, thin) leading lady showcases an innovative and interdisciplinary approach to issues of weight and self-esteem, performance, race and gender.
Focusing on the ethical dimensions of autoethnographic research, the book combines philosophy and critical theory with personal reflections to advocate for integrity among qualitative researchers. It emphasizes the importance of evaluating the ethical quality of research and provides practical tools to help avoid self-indulgence and solipsism in first-person narratives.
Blending a history of the Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus Aureus (MRSA) bacterium with auto-ethnographic writing, Autobiography of a Disease documents, in experimental form, the experience of extended life-threatening illness in contemporary US hospitals and clinics.
Towards Creative-Relational Inquiry
Exploring the intersection of therapy and stand-up comedy, the book offers an autoethnographical perspective that highlights how these narratives inform and reflect one another. Through a theoretical lens rooted in Deleuze and Guattari, it delves into new materialisms and affect theory, providing a unique framework to understand the emotional and material dimensions of storytelling. This innovative approach invites readers to reconsider the therapeutic potential of humor and the expressive power of writing.