Crafting Autoethnography

<p>This collection explores <i>how</i> 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. </p><p>Theoretically 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 national identity digital identities indigenous ways of knowing/making and how these are ‘storied’ curated and presented to the public and our relationship with the natural world. Contributors also offer insights into how the ‘crafting space’ is itself one of intellectual inquiry debate and reflection.</p><p>This is a core text for readers from both traditional and practice-based disciplines undertaking qualitative research methods/autoethnographic inquiry courses as well as community-based practitioners and students. Readers interested in creative practice practitioner-research and arts-based research in the social sciences and humanities will also benefit from this book.</p>