Handbook of autoethnography

Table of Contents
Preface

Autoethnography in the Time of Uncertainty: Finding Hope and Purpose

Carolyn Ellis

Introduction

Making Sense and Taking Action: Creating a Caring Community of Autoethnographers

Tony E. Adams, Stacy Holman Jones, and Carolyn Ellis

SECTION 1: DOING AUTOETHNOGRAPHY

Section Introduction

Doing Autoethnography

Pat Sikes

1. Mediations on the Story I Cannot Write: Reflexivity, Autoethnography, and the Possibilities of Maybe

Keith Berry

2. Sketching Subjectivities

Susanne Gannon

3. Individual and Collaborative Autoethnography for Social Science Research

Heewon Chang

4. Autoethnography as Acts of Love

Andrew F. Herrmann

5. Frank and the Gift, or the Untold Told: Provocations for Autoethnography and Therapy

Jonathan Wyatt

6. Border Smugglers: Betweener Bodies Making Knowledge and Expanding the Circle of Us

Claudio Moreira and Marcelo Diversi

7. Self and Others: Ethics in Autoethnographic Research

Jillian A. Tullis

SECTION 2: REPRESENTING AUTOETHNOGRAPHY

Section Introduction

Nepantleric Traveling: Writing and Reading Autoethnographies as a Mode of Inquiry

Kakali Bhattacharya

8. Writing Autoethnography: The Personal, Poetic, and Performative as Compositional Strategies

Ronald J. Pelias

9. Artistic Autoethnography: Exploring the Interface Between Autoethnography and Artistic Research

Brydie-Leigh Bartleet

10. How Intersectional Autoethnography Saved my Life: A Plea for Intersectional Inquiry

Amber Johnson

11. Collaborative Autoethnography: From Rhythm and Harmony to Shared Stories and Truths

David Carless and Kitrina Douglas

12. The Matter of Performative Autoethnography

Tami Spry

13. Exo-autoethnography as Method for Research on Intergenerational Trauma Transmission

Anna Denejkina

14. Doing Digital and Visual Autoethnography

Kate Coleman

SECTION 3: TEACHING, EVALUATING, AND PUBLISHING AUTOETHNOGRAPHY

Section Introduction

Purposes, Perspectives, and Possibilities: Enlivening Debates about Autoethnography

Laura L. Ellingson

15. Autoethnography as/in Higher Education

Kathleen Pithouse-Morgan, Daisy Pillay, and Inbanathan Naicker

16. Embracing Autoethnographic Anxiety: The Joyous Potential of Teaching and Advising Relationships

Sandra L. Pensoneau-Conway and Darren J. Valenta

17. Thinking Through Rejection: Reflections on Writing and Publishing Autoethnography

James Salvo

18. Publishing Autoethnography: A Thrice-Told Tale

Alec Grant, Nigel Patrick Short, and Lydia Turner

19. When Judgment Calls: Making Sense of Criteria for Evaluating Different Forms of Autoethnography

Andrew C. Sparkes

20. Failing Autoethnography

Sophie Tamas

SECTION 4: CHALLENGES AND FUTURES OF AUTOETHNOGRAPHY

Section Introduction

Challenges and Futures of Autoethnography

Norman K. Denzin

21. Translation and Tango: Decolonizing Autoethnography

Ahmet Atay

22. Naming and Reclaiming Decolonial, Feminist, Performative, and Other Approaches to Critical Autoethnography

Caleb Green and Bernadette Calafell

23. Autoethnography Crosses Cultural Borders

Gresilda A. Tilley-Lubbs

24. Textual Experience: A Relational Reading of Culture

Aisha Durham

25. Writing Feminist Autoethnography: A Memo/ry to the Personal-is-Political

Elizabeth Mackinlay

26. Girl, Disrupted: Trauma, Narrative Disruptions, and Autoethnography

Donna F. Henson

27. Posthumanist Autoethnography

Travis Brisini and Jake Simmons

SECTION 5: AUTOETHNOGRAPHIC EXEMPLARS

Section Introduction

Poking Around the Neighborhood: Autoethnography and the Search for…

Christopher N. Poulos

28. "Sit with Your Legs Closed!" And Other Sayin’s from My Childhood

Robin M. Boylorn

29, Risk and Reward in Autoethnography: Revisiting "Chronicling an Academic Depression"

Barbara J. Jago

30. On Evocative Autoethnography: Talking Over Bird on the Wire

Csaba Osvath and Arthur P. Bochner

31. Remixing/Reliving/Revisioning "My Mother is Mentally Retarded"

Carol Rambo

32. I AM (Still) an Angry Black Woman: Black Feminist Autoethnography, Voice, and Resistance

Rachel Alicia Griffin

33. Staying I(ra)n: Negotiating Queer Identity through Narrative Trespass from within the Iranian American Closet

Shadee Abdi

34. Revisiting "Body and Bulimia Revisited"

Lisa M. Tillmann

35. That Baby will Cost You (REDUX): A Story of an Intended Ambivalent Pregnancy (and Motherhood)

Sandra L. Faulkner

36. Revisiting "Bobcat" on the Eve of My 25-Year High School Reunion

Ragan Fox

37. A Year of Encounters with Privilege

Esther Fitzpatrick

38. The American Dental Dream: Sinking My Teeth Back In

Nathan Hodges

39. Wayfinding the "Tapu" in Critical Autoethnography

Fetuai Iosefo, Dave Fa’avae, and Haami Hawkins

40. Researching the Taboo: Reflections on an Ethno-autography

Fiona Murray

41. Using "Auto-Ethnography" to Write about Racism

Yassir Morsi

42. Walk, Walking, Talking Home

Devika Chawla

43. An Autoethnography of What Happens

Kathleen Stewart

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.