{"product_id":"crafting-autoethnography-9781032313337","title":"Crafting Autoethnography","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis collection explores \u003ci\u003ehow\u003c\/i\u003e autoethnography is made. Contributors from sociology, education, counselling, the visual arts, textiles, drama, music, and museum curation uncover and reflect on the processes and practices they engage in as they craft their autoethnographic artefacts. Each chapter explores a different material or media, together creating a rich and stimulating set of demonstrations, with the focus firmly on the practical accomplishment of texts\/artefacts. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTheoretically, this book seeks to rectify the hierarchical separation of art and craft and of intellectual and practical cultural production, by collapsing distinctions between knowing and making. In relation to connections between personal experience and wider social and cultural phenomena, contributors address a variety of topics such as social class, family relationships and intergenerational transmission, loss, longing and grief, the neoliberal university, gender, sexuality, colonialism, race\/ism, nat\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Practices and academic disciplines that are founded on skilled material engagement have lacked methods to bring to light what this engagement involves. From this perspective, the focus on the making of autoethnographies in \u003ci\u003eCrafting Autoethnography\u003c\/i\u003e provides an essential and welcome addition to the resources available for contemporary research and practice.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTom Fisher, \u003ci\u003eProfessor of Art and Design, Nottingham Trent University, UK\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"This is a wonderful book! The go-to text on theorising, making\/doing and reflecting on autoethnography in current times. A richly textured collection that is rooted in the history of the method and the importance of paying attention to the multifaceted ways we can work with personal and professional experience.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMaggie O’Neill, \u003ci\u003eProfessor in Sociology, University College Cork, Ireland\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"This fascinating collection of intertwined and evocative autoethnographic creations is a welcome addition to a developing auto-methodological literature. In contrast to existing works, it offers readers grounded and rich insights into the art and crafting of autoethnographic making. It succeeds in drawing us in to the lifeworlds of autoethnographic creators.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJacquelyn Allen-Collinson, \u003ci\u003eProfessor Emerita in Sociology \u0026amp; Physical Cultures, University of Lincoln, UK\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction; \u003cb\u003eSection I: This Writing Life \u003c\/b\u003e1. Shoring Up the Fragments 2. When the Slave Ships Came; \u003cb\u003eSection II: Making a Drama Out of It \u003c\/b\u003eChapter 3. Reflections and Confessions on the Making of a Performative Autoethnography: University Professional Development Reviews and the Academic Self 4. \u003cem\u003eMi amigo Giovanni\u003c\/em\u003e: A Digital Engagement of Friendship, Community and Queer Love Through a Zoom Performance; \u003cb\u003eSection III: Crafting Selves \u003c\/b\u003e5. Thinking with our Hands while Becoming Autoethnographers 6. Putting Ourselves in the Picture: An Autoethnographic Approach to Photography Criticism 7. Digital Autoethnography: An Approach to Facilitate Reflective Practice in the Making and Performing of Visual Art 8. Stitching as Reflection and Resistance: The Use of a Stitch Journal During Doctoral Study 9. Making \u003cem\u003eThe Dreamer\u003c\/em\u003e: Cut-ups, Découpage and Narrative Assemblages of Interbeing and Becoming; \u003cb\u003eSection IV: Creating Class \u003c\/b\u003e10. Hidden Time: An Autoethnographical Narrative on the Creation of \u003ci\u003eSeven Working-Class Time Pieces\u003c\/i\u003e 11: Coming Back to Class: The Remaking of an Academic Self; \u003cb\u003eSection V: Place and Belonging \u003c\/b\u003e12. Walking as Knowing, Healing, and the (Re)making of Self 13. Where the River Flows Out to the Sea: A Story of Place-Making 14. Making Mistakes: Learning Through Embarrassment when Curating Indigenous Collections in UK Museums; Conclusion \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Taylor \u0026 Francis Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51018968301911,"sku":"9781032313337","price":37.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781032313337.jpg?v=1750778849","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/crafting-autoethnography-9781032313337","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}