Handbook of Autoethnography

Awards 2023 H.L. “Bud” Goodall, Jr. and Nick Trujillo “It’s a Way of Life” Award in Narrative Ethnography from the International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry. “Meditations on the Story I Cannot Write: Reflexivity, Autoethnography, and the Possibilities of Maybe,” received the 2023 National Communication Association's Ethnography Division Best Book Chapter Award. The second edition of the award-winning Handbook of Autoethnography is a thematically organized volume that contextualizes contemporary practices of autoethnography and examines how the field has developed since the publication of the first edition in 2013. Throughout, contributors identify key autoethnographic themes and commitments and offer examples of diverse, thoughtful, effective, applied, and innovative autoethnography. The second edition is organized into five sections: In Section 1, Doing Autoethnography, contributors explore definitions of autoethnography, identify and demonstrate key features of autoethnography, and engage philosophical, relational, cultural, and ethical foundations of autoethnographic practice. In Section 2, Representing Autoethnography, contributors discuss forms and techniques for the process and craft of creating autoethnographic projects, using various media in/as autoethnography, and marking and making visible particular identities, knowledges, and voices. In Section 3, Teaching, Evaluating, and Publishing Autoethnography, contributors focus on supporting and supervising autoethnographic projects. They also offer perspectives on publishing and evaluating autoethnography. In Section 4, Challenges and Futures of Autoethnography, contributors consider contemporary challenges for autoethnography, including understanding autoethnography as a feminist, posthumanist, and decolonialist practice, as well as a method for studying texts, translations, and traumas. The volume concludes with Section 5, Autoethnographic Exemplars, a collection of sixteen classic and contemporary texts that can serve as models of autoethnographic scholarship. With contributions from more than 50 authors representing more than a dozen disciplines and writing from various locations around the world, the handbook develops, refines, and expands autoethnographic inquiry and qualitative research. This text will be a primary resource for novice and advanced researchers alike in a wide range of social science disciplines.

Table of Contents:
Preface Autoethnography in the Time of Uncertainty: Finding Hope and Purpose; Introduction. Making Sense and Taking Action: Creating a Caring Community of Autoethnographers; SECTION 1: DOING AUTOETHNOGRAPHY Section Introduction. Doing Autoethnography 1. Mediations on the Story I Cannot Write: Reflexivity, Autoethnography, and the Possibilities of Maybe 2. Sketching Subjectivities 3. Individual and Collaborative Autoethnography for Social Science Research 4. Autoethnography as Acts of Love 5. Frank and the Gift, or the Untold Told: Provocations for Autoethnography and Therapy 6. Border Smugglers: Betweener Bodies Making Knowledge and Expanding the Circle of Us 7. Self and Others: Ethics in Autoethnographic Research; SECTION 2: REPRESENTING AUTOETHNOGRAPHY Section Introduction. Nepantleric Traveling: Writing and Reading Autoethnographies as a Mode of Inquiry 8. Writing Autoethnography: The Personal, Poetic, and Performative as Compositional Strategies 9. Artistic Autoethnography: Exploring the Interface Between Autoethnography and Artistic Research 10. How Intersectional Autoethnography Saved my Life: A Plea for Intersectional Inquiry 11. Collaborative Autoethnography: From Rhythm and Harmony to Shared Stories and Truths 12. The Matter of Performative Autoethnography 13. Exo-autoethnography as Method for Research on Intergenerational Trauma Transmission 14. Doing Digital and Visual Autoethnography; SECTION 3: TEACHING, EVALUATING, AND PUBLISHING AUTOETHNOGRAPHY Section Introduction. Purposes, Perspectives, and Possibilities: Enlivening Debates about Autoethnography 15. Autoethnography as/in Higher Education 16. Embracing Autoethnographic Anxiety: The Joyous Potential of Teaching and Advising Relationships 17. Thinking Through Rejection: Reflections on Writing and Publishing Autoethnography 18. Publishing Autoethnography: A Thrice-Told Tale 19. When Judgment Calls: Making Sense of Criteria for Evaluating Different Forms of Autoethnography 20. Failing Autoethnography; SECTION 4: CHALLENGES AND FUTURES OF AUTOETHNOGRAPHY Section Introduction. Challenges and Futures of Autoethnography 21. Translation and Tango: Decolonizing Autoethnography 22. Naming and Reclaiming Decolonial, Feminist, Performative, and Other Approaches to Critical Autoethnography 23. Autoethnography Crosses Cultural Borders 24. Textual Experience: A Relational Reading of Culture 25. Writing Feminist Autoethnography: A Memo/ry to the Personal-is-Political 26. Girl, Disrupted: Trauma, Narrative Disruptions, and Autoethnography 27. Posthumanist Autoethnography; SECTION 5: AUTOETHNOGRAPHIC EXEMPLARS Section Introduction. Poking Around the Neighborhood: Autoethnography and the Search for… 28. "Sit with Your Legs Closed!" And Other Sayin’s from My Childhood 29, Risk and Reward in Autoethnography: Revisiting "Chronicling an Academic Depression" 30. On Evocative Autoethnography: Talking Over Bird on the Wire 31. Remixing/Reliving/Revisioning "My Mother is Mentally Retarded" 32. I AM (Still) an Angry Black Woman: Black Feminist Autoethnography, Voice, and Resistance 33. Staying I(ra)n: Negotiating Queer Identity through Narrative Trespass from within the Iranian American Closet 34. Revisiting "Body and Bulimia Revisited" 35. That Baby will Cost You (REDUX): A Story of an Intended Ambivalent Pregnancy (and Motherhood) 36. Revisiting "Bobcat" on the Eve of My 25-Year High School Reunion 37. A Year of Encounters with Privilege 38. The American Dental Dream: Sinking My Teeth Back In 39. Wayfinding the "Tapu" in Critical Autoethnography 40. Researching the Taboo: Reflections on an Ethno-autography 41. Using "Auto-Ethnography" to Write about Racism 42. Walk, Walking, Talking Home 43. An Autoethnography of What Happens