Revision

Autoethnographic Reflections on Life and Work
1. Auflage 2020
ISBN: 978-0-367-20116-6
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 396 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 575 g

Reihe: Routledge Education Classic Edition

Carolyn Ellis is a prominent writer in the move toward personal, reflexive writing as an approach to academic research. In addition to her landmark books Final Negotiations and The Ethnographic I, she has authored numerous stories that demonstrate the emotional power and academic value of autoethnography.

Now issued as a Routledge Education Classic Edition, Revision: Autoethnographic Reflections on Life and Work collects a dozen of Ellis’s stories—about the loss of her husband, brother and mother; of growing up in small town Virginia; about the ethical work of the ethnographer; and about emotionally charged life issues such as abortion, caregiving, and love. Atop these captivating stories, she adds the component of meta-autoethography—a layering of new interpretations, reflections, and vignettes to her older work.

A new preface text by the author reflects on the subsequent developments in the author’s life and her vision for autoethnography since the book’s original publication. Demonstrating Carolyn’s extensive contribution to autoethnographic scholarship, this new edition offers compelling ideas and stories for qualitative researchers and a student-friendly text for courses.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Ellis, Carolyn

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein Empirische Sozialforschung, Statistik
• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Psychologie / Allgemeines & Theorie Psychologische Forschungsmethoden

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface to the Classic Edition

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Reflecting on Meta-Autoethnography

Part One: Growing Up in a Rural Community, Getting an Education, and Finding My Place in Community Ethnography

Chapter 1: Goin’ to the Store, Sittin’ on the Street, and Runnin’ the Roads: Growing Up in a Rural Southern Neighborhood

Chapter 2: Talking Across Fences: Race Matters

Chapter 3: Investigating the Fisher Folk and Coping with Ethical Quagmires

Part Two: Becoming an Autoethnographer

Chapter 4: Reliving Final Negotiations

Chapter 5: Renegotiating Final Negotiations: From Introspection to Emotional Sociology

Part Three: Surviving and Communicating Family Loss

Chapter 6: Surviving the Loss of My Brother

Chapter 7: Rereading "There Are Survivors": Cultural and Evocative Responses

Chapter 8: Rewriting and Re-Membering Mother

Chapter 9: Coconstructing and Reconstructing "The Constraints of Choice in Abortion"

Part Four: Doing Autoethnography as a Social Project

Chapter 10: Breaking Our Silences/Speaking with Others

Chapter 11: Learning to Be "With" in Personal and Collective Grief

Chapter 12: Connecting Autoethnographic Performance with Community Practice

Part Five: Reconsidering Writing Practices, Relational Ethics, and Rural Communities

Chapter 13: Writing Revision and Researching Ethically

Chapter 14: Returning Home and Revisioning My Story

Notes

References

Name Index by Judy Perry

Subject Index by Judy Perry

About the Author

Über Autor(innen)

Carolyn Ellis is Distinguished University Professor Emerita of Communication and Sociology at the University of South Florida. She has contributed to the narrative and autoethnographic study of human life through integrating ethnographic, literary, and evocative writing to portray and make sense of lived experience in cultural context. Her publications include Final Negotiations: A Story of Love, Loss, and Chronic Illness, Evocative Autoethnography: Writing Lives and Telling Stories (with Arthur Bochner), and Autoethnography: Understanding Qualitative Research and Handbook of Autoethnography, both with Tony E. Adams and Stacy Holman Jones. She co-edits the Routledge book series Writing Lives: Ethnographic Narratives.