Autoethnography: (Sage Benchmarks in Social Research Methods)

About the Book

From the 1980s onwards, there has been what has frequently been described as an auto/biographical turn in the social sciences and also in the arts and humanities. Changes in conceptions of self, society and identity, post-modern, post-structural and post-colonial influences and sensibilities to name but a few have all played their part in focusing attention on to, and valorising the perceptions and experiences of the individual. Now, at a time of exciting development for the subject, this new four-volume set seeks to capture the important articles that have come out of the field over the past decades.

Framed by a newly-written introductory chapter, the collection includes work that spans disciplinary boundaries, bringing together a comprehensive resource taht will prove invaluable to scholars in the field.

Table of Contents:
VOLUME ONE ORIGINS AND ANTECEDENTS Introduction in Reed-Danahay, D. (Ed) Auto/ethnography: Rewriting the Self and the Social - D Reed-Danahay What Do People Do?: Dani Auto-ethnography - Karl Heider Auto-Ethnography: Paradigms, Problems and Prospects - D Hayano From Participant Observation to the Observation of Participants: The Emergence of Narrative Ethnography - Barbara Tedlock On Auto/Biography in Sociology - Liz Stanley The Politics of Location: Where am I Now? - Laurel Richardson What′s in a Research Project: Some Thoughts on the Intersection of History, Social Structure and Biography - Thomas Popkewitz Writing to the Archive: Mass Observation as Autobiography - Dorothy Sheridan WHAT IT IS AND CRITIQUES AND WHAT IT CAN DO Autoethnography, Personal Narrative, Reflexivity: Researcher as Subject - Carolyn Ellis and Arthur Bochner Autoethnography: Self-Indugence or Something More? - Andrew Sparkes Reconsidering ′Table Talk′: Critical Thoughts on the Relationship Between Sociology, Autobiography and Self-Indulgence - Eric Mykhalovsky Narrative′s Virtues - Arthur Bochner Representation, Legitimation and Autoethnography: An Autoethnographic Writing Story - Nicholas Holt Judging the Quality of Qualitative Inquiry: Criteriology and Relativism in Action - Andrew Sparkes and Brett Smith ′On Auto-Ethnographic Authority′ - J Buzard The (Im)Possibilities of Writing the Self-Writing: French Poststructural Theory and Autoethnography - Susanne Gannon Experience and I in Autoethnography: A Deconstruction - Alecia Jackson and Lisa Mazzei Doing Autoethnography - Tessa Muncey Autoethnographic Mother Writing: Advocating Radical Specificity - Patty Sotirin VOLUME TWO Finding the Limits: Autoethnography and Being an Oxford University Proctor - Geoffrey Walford An Autoethnography on Learning About Autoethnography - Sarah Wall Accommodating the Autoethnographic PhD: The Tale of the Thesis, the Viva Voce and the Traditional Business School - Clair Doloriert and Sally Sambrook Analytic Autoethnography - Leon Anderson Rescuing Autoethnography - Paul Atkinson Arguments Against Auto-ethnography - Sara Delamont Truth Troubles - Jillian Owen et al Facts or Fictions? Aspects of the Use of Autobiographical Writing in Undergraduate Sociology - Jane Ribbens Autoethnography and Teacher Development - Jon Austin and Andrew Hickey Disability and (Auto)Ethnography: Riding (and Writing) The Bus With My Sister - G. Thomas Couser Becoming a Sadomasochist: Integrating Self and Other in Ethnographic Analysis - Staci Newmahr Death and Memory: From Santa Maria del Monte to Miami Beach - Ruth Behar Turning Toward Tincup: A Story of a Home Death - Joyce Hocker Autoethnography: An Overview - Carolyn Ellis, Tony Adams and Arthur Bochner VOLUME THREE ETHICAL CONCERNS AROUND AUTOETHNOGRAPHY A Note on Ethical Issues in Autobiography in Sociological Research - Barbara Harrison and E. Stina Lyon Telling Secrets, Revealing Lives: Relational Ethics in Research With Intimate Others - Carolyn Ellis A Review of Narrative Ethics - Tony Adams The Ethics of Writing Life Histories and Narratives in Educational Research - Pat Sikes Caught With a Fake ID: Ethical Questions About Slippage in Autoethnography - Kristina Medford A Critique of Current Practice: Ten Foundational Guidelines for Autoethnographers - Martin Tolich Handing IRB an Unloaded Gun - Carol Rambo With Mother/With Child: A True Story - Carolyn Ellis Sexual Involvement and Social Research in a Fat Civil Rights Organisation - Erich Goode WRITING AND RE-PRESENTING AUTOETHNOGRAPHIC RESEARCH C Writing: A Method of Inquiry - L Richardson A Gentle Going?: An Autoethnographic Short - Jonathan Wyatt Psychic Distance, Consent and Other Ethical issues: Reflecting on the Writing of A Gentle Going? - Jonathan Wyatt Goin′ to the Store, Sittin′ on the Street, and Runnin′ the Roads: Growing up in a Rural Southern Neighbourhood - Carolyn Ellis Writing Like a Guy in Textville: A Personal Reflection on Narrative Seduction - H.L. Goodall, Jr. Revealing and Concealing Secrets in Research: The Potential for the Absent - Brian Rappert Easier Said Than Done: Writing an Autoethnography - Sarah Wall The Academic Tourist: An Autoethnography - Ronald Pelias Narrative and the Re/Production of transsexual: The Foreclosure of an Endured Emergence of Gender Multiplicity - Jodi Kaufmann Multiple Reflections of Child Sex Abuse: An Argument for a Layered Account - Carol Rambo Ronai Autoethnographic Layering: Recollections of Family Tales and Dreams - Jean Rath Performative Autoethnography: Critical Embodiments and Possibilities - Tami Spry Indians in the Park - Norman Denzin Mothers Talk About Their Children With Schizophrenia: A Performance Autoethnography - B Schneider Postcards From Pigtown - Michael Silk The Accusing Body - Tami Spry Standing Centre: Autoethnography, Writing and Solo Dance Performance - Karen Nicole Barbour VOLUME FOUR SPEAKING FOR OURSELVES The Fatal Flaw: A Narrative of the Fragile Body-Self - Andrew Sparkes "Then You Know How I Feel": Empathy, Identification and reflexivity in Fieldwork - Laura Ellingson Chronicling an Academic Depression - Barbara Jago Writing the Othered Self: Autoethnography and the Problem of Objectification in Writing about Illness and Disability - Rose Richards An Autoethnography on Shifting Relationships Between a Daughter, Her Mother and Altzheimer′s Dementia (in any order) - Marina Malthouse The Secret of Time and Immortality at the End of July - Bud Goodall The Consumer Diaries or Autoethnography in the Inverted World - Elizabeth Chin Dreams of my Daughter: An Ectopic Pregnancy - Maria Lahman Waltzing Matilda: An Autoethnography of a Father′s StillBirth - Marcus Weaver-Hightower Opening My Voice Claiming My Space: Theorizing the Possibility of Postcolonial Approaches to Autoethnography - Alice Terry My Journey in grief: A Mother′s Experience Following the Death of Her Daughter Archana Pathak ′′What′s the Footballer Doing Here?′ Racialized Performativity, Reflexivity and Identity - Ben Carrington Native Among Natives: Physician Anthropologist Doing Hospital Ethnography at Home - Shahaduz Zaman Trying to Return Home: A Trinidadian′s Experience of Becoming a ′Native′ Ethnographer - Janice Fournillier Personal Narratives and Cosmopolitan Identities: An Autobiographical Approach - Maria Daskalaki Narrative Inheritance: A Nuclear Family With Toxic Secrets - H.L. Goodall Whose Collection is it Anyway? An Autoethnographic Account of ′Dividing the Spoils′ Upon Divorce - Jackie Goode Becoming a Doctor - Pat Sikes And Robyn Sikes-Sheard Becoming a Leader: A Co-Produced Autoethnographic Exploration of Situated Learning of Leadership Practice - Steve Kempster and James Stewart Situating the Greenham Archaeology: An Autoethnography of a Feminist Project - Yvonne Marshall, Sasha Roseneil and Kayt Armstrong Embodiment, Academics and the Audit Culture: a story seeking consideration - Andrew Sparkes Ethics, Agency and Desire in Two Strip Clubs: A View From Both Sides of the Gaze - Amy Pinney How to Look Good (Nearly) Naked: The Performative Regulation of the Swimmer′s Body - Susie Scott

About the Author :
Pat Sikes is a professor of qualitative inquiry in the School of Education, University of Sheffield. She became interested in narrative auto/biographical approaches in the late 1970s and throughout her career has undertaken research which has used them to investigate topics around teachers’ lives and careers and, from 2014, the perceptions and experiences of children and young people who have a parent with a young onset dementia. Research ethics are another key concern and focus of Pat’s work. In 2018, the British Educational Research Association awarded her the John Nisbet Fellowship for an outstanding contribution to educational research over a career.