"Handbook Of Autoethnography | Research Methods

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.|Handbook of Autoethnography | Research Methods