The Palgrave Handbook of Auto/Biography /
The Palgrave Handbook of Auto/Biography /
- Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, 2020.
- 692 pages : illustrations ;
Cover
Front Matter
1. A Case for Auto/Biography
Part I. Creativity and Collaboration
2. The Times Are a Changing: Culture(s) of Medicine
3. Seventeen Minutes and Thirty-One Seconds: An Auto/Biographical Account of Collaboratively Witnessing and Representing an Untold Life Story
4. Reflections on a Collaborative, Creative ‘Working’ Relationship
Part II. Families and Relationships: Auto/Biography and Family—A Natural Affinity?
5. Life Story and Narrative Approaches in the Study of Family Lives
6. The Research Methods for Discovering Housing Inequalities in Socio-Biographical Studies
7. Auto/Biographical Research and the Family
Part III. Epistolary Lives: Fragments, Sensibility, Assemblages in Auto/Biographical Research
8. Letter-Writing and the Actual Course of Things: Doing the Business, Helping the World Go Round
9. The Unforeseeable Narrative: Epistolary Lives in Nineteenth-Century Iceland
10. Auto/Pathographies in situ: ‘Dying of Melancholy’ in Nineteenth-Century Greece
Part IV. Geography Matters: Spatiality and Auto/Biography
11. ‘Trying to Keep Up’: Intersections of Identity, Space, Time and Rhythm in Women Student Carer Auto/Biographical Accounts
12. Spatiality and Auto/Biographical Narratives of Encounter in Social Housing
13. ‘I Thought… I Saw… I Heard…’: The Ethical and Moral Tensions of Auto/Biographically Opportunistic Research in Public Spaces
Part V. Madness, Dys-order and Autist/Biography: Auto/Biographical Challenges to Psychiatric Dominance
14. Autist/Biography
15. Reaching Beyond Auto? A Polyvocal Representation of Recovery from “Eating Dys-order”
16. [R]evolving Towards Mad: Spinning Away from the Psy/Spy-Complex Through Auto/Biography
Part VI. Prison Lives
17. Nelson Mandela: Courage and Conviction—The Making of a Leader
18. The ‘Other’ Prison of Antonio Gramsci and Giulia Schucht
19. Bobby Sands: Prison and the Formation of a Leader
Part VII. Professional Lives
20. Academic Lives in a Period of Transition in Higher Education: Bildung in Educational Auto/Biography
21. Narratives of Early Career Teachers in a Changing Professional Landscape
22. What Does It Mean to Be a Young Professional Graduate Working in the Private Sector?
Part VIII. ‘Race’ and Cultural Difference
23. Now You See Me, Now You Don’t! Making Sense of the Black and Minority Ethnic (BME) Experience of UK Higher Education: One Person’s Story
24. Raging Against the Dying of the Light
25. Black Young Men: Problematisation, Humanisation and Effective Engagement
Part IX. Social Justice and Disability: Voices from the Inside
26. Missing Data and Socio-Political Death: The Sociological Imagination Beyond the Crime
27. Co-constructed Auto/Biographies in Dwarfism Mothering Research: Imagining Opportunities for Social Justice
28. An Auto/Biographical Account of Managing Autism and a Hybrid Identity: ‘Covering’ for Eight Days Straight
Back Matter
In a neo-liberal era concerned with discourses of responsible individualism and the ‘selfie’, there is an increased interest in personal lives and experiences. In contemporary life, the personal is understood to be political and these ideas cut across both the social sciences and humanities.This handbook is specifically concerned with auto/biography, which sits within the field of narrative, complementing biographical and life history research. Some of the contributors emphasise the place of narrative in the construction of auto/biography, whilst others disrupt the perceived boundaries between the individual and the social, the self and the other. The collection has nine sections: creativity and collaboration; families and relationships; epistolary lives; geography; madness; prison lives; professional lives; ‘race’; and social justice and disability. They illustrate the inter- and multi-disciplinary nature of auto/biography as a field. Each section features an introduction from a section editor, many of whom are established researchers and/or members of the British Sociological Association (BSA) Auto/Biography study group. The handbook provides the reader with cutting-edge research from authors at different stages in their careers, and will appeal to those with an interest in auto/biography, auto-ethnography, epistolary traditions, lived experiences, narrative analysis, the arts, education, politics, philosophy, history, personal life, reflexivity, research in practice and the sociology of the everyday.
9783030319731
Auto/biography
Narrative studies
Life history research
920.02 / PAR
Cover
Front Matter
1. A Case for Auto/Biography
Part I. Creativity and Collaboration
2. The Times Are a Changing: Culture(s) of Medicine
3. Seventeen Minutes and Thirty-One Seconds: An Auto/Biographical Account of Collaboratively Witnessing and Representing an Untold Life Story
4. Reflections on a Collaborative, Creative ‘Working’ Relationship
Part II. Families and Relationships: Auto/Biography and Family—A Natural Affinity?
5. Life Story and Narrative Approaches in the Study of Family Lives
6. The Research Methods for Discovering Housing Inequalities in Socio-Biographical Studies
7. Auto/Biographical Research and the Family
Part III. Epistolary Lives: Fragments, Sensibility, Assemblages in Auto/Biographical Research
8. Letter-Writing and the Actual Course of Things: Doing the Business, Helping the World Go Round
9. The Unforeseeable Narrative: Epistolary Lives in Nineteenth-Century Iceland
10. Auto/Pathographies in situ: ‘Dying of Melancholy’ in Nineteenth-Century Greece
Part IV. Geography Matters: Spatiality and Auto/Biography
11. ‘Trying to Keep Up’: Intersections of Identity, Space, Time and Rhythm in Women Student Carer Auto/Biographical Accounts
12. Spatiality and Auto/Biographical Narratives of Encounter in Social Housing
13. ‘I Thought… I Saw… I Heard…’: The Ethical and Moral Tensions of Auto/Biographically Opportunistic Research in Public Spaces
Part V. Madness, Dys-order and Autist/Biography: Auto/Biographical Challenges to Psychiatric Dominance
14. Autist/Biography
15. Reaching Beyond Auto? A Polyvocal Representation of Recovery from “Eating Dys-order”
16. [R]evolving Towards Mad: Spinning Away from the Psy/Spy-Complex Through Auto/Biography
Part VI. Prison Lives
17. Nelson Mandela: Courage and Conviction—The Making of a Leader
18. The ‘Other’ Prison of Antonio Gramsci and Giulia Schucht
19. Bobby Sands: Prison and the Formation of a Leader
Part VII. Professional Lives
20. Academic Lives in a Period of Transition in Higher Education: Bildung in Educational Auto/Biography
21. Narratives of Early Career Teachers in a Changing Professional Landscape
22. What Does It Mean to Be a Young Professional Graduate Working in the Private Sector?
Part VIII. ‘Race’ and Cultural Difference
23. Now You See Me, Now You Don’t! Making Sense of the Black and Minority Ethnic (BME) Experience of UK Higher Education: One Person’s Story
24. Raging Against the Dying of the Light
25. Black Young Men: Problematisation, Humanisation and Effective Engagement
Part IX. Social Justice and Disability: Voices from the Inside
26. Missing Data and Socio-Political Death: The Sociological Imagination Beyond the Crime
27. Co-constructed Auto/Biographies in Dwarfism Mothering Research: Imagining Opportunities for Social Justice
28. An Auto/Biographical Account of Managing Autism and a Hybrid Identity: ‘Covering’ for Eight Days Straight
Back Matter
In a neo-liberal era concerned with discourses of responsible individualism and the ‘selfie’, there is an increased interest in personal lives and experiences. In contemporary life, the personal is understood to be political and these ideas cut across both the social sciences and humanities.This handbook is specifically concerned with auto/biography, which sits within the field of narrative, complementing biographical and life history research. Some of the contributors emphasise the place of narrative in the construction of auto/biography, whilst others disrupt the perceived boundaries between the individual and the social, the self and the other. The collection has nine sections: creativity and collaboration; families and relationships; epistolary lives; geography; madness; prison lives; professional lives; ‘race’; and social justice and disability. They illustrate the inter- and multi-disciplinary nature of auto/biography as a field. Each section features an introduction from a section editor, many of whom are established researchers and/or members of the British Sociological Association (BSA) Auto/Biography study group. The handbook provides the reader with cutting-edge research from authors at different stages in their careers, and will appeal to those with an interest in auto/biography, auto-ethnography, epistolary traditions, lived experiences, narrative analysis, the arts, education, politics, philosophy, history, personal life, reflexivity, research in practice and the sociology of the everyday.
9783030319731
Auto/biography
Narrative studies
Life history research
920.02 / PAR