In a neo-liberal era concerned with discourses of responsible
individualism and the 'selfie', there is an increased interest in
personal lives and experiences. In contemporary life, the personal
is understood to be political and these ideas cut across both the
social sciences and humanities. This handbook is specifically
concerned with auto/biography, which sits within the field of
narrative, complementing biographical and life history research.
Some of the contributors emphasise the place of narrative in the
construction of auto/biography, whilst others disrupt the perceived
boundaries between the individual and the social, the self and the
other. The collection has nine sections: creativity and
collaboration; families and relationships; epistolary lives;
geography; madness; prison lives; professional lives; 'race'; and
social justice and disability. They illustrate the inter- and
multi-disciplinary nature of auto/biography as a field. Each
section features an introduction from a section editor, many of
whom are established researchers and/or members of the British
Sociological Association (BSA) Auto/Biography study group. The
handbook provides the reader with cutting-edge research from
authors at different stages in their careers, and will appeal to
those with an interest in auto/biography, auto-ethnography,
epistolary traditions, lived experiences, narrative analysis, the
arts, education, politics, philosophy, history, personal life,
reflexivity, research in practice and the sociology of the
everyday. Chapter 1: A Case for Auto/Biography; Julie Parsons and
Anne Chappell. Section One: Creativity and Collaboration; edited by
Gayle Letherby. Chapter 2: The Times are a Changing: Culture(s) of
Medicine; Theresa Compton. Chapter 3: Seventeen Minutes and
Thirty-One Seconds: An Auto/Biographical Account of Collaboratively
Witnessing and Representing an Untold Life Story; Kitrina Douglas
and David Carless. Chapter 4: Reflections on a Collaborative,
Creative 'Working' Relationship; Deborah Davidson and Gayle
Letherby. Section Two: Families and Relationships: Auto/Biography
and Family, A Natural Affinity?; edited by David Morgan. Chapter 5:
Life Story and Narrative Approaches in the Study of Family Lives;
Julia Brannen. Chapter 6: The Research Methods for Discovering
Housing Inequalities in Socio-Biographical Studies; Elizaveta
Polukhina. Chapter 7: Auto/Biographical Research and The Family;
Aidan Seery and Karin Bacon. Section Three: Epistolary Lives:
Fragments, Sensibility, Assemblages in Auto/Biographical Research;
edited by Maria Tamboukou. Chapter 8: Letter-Writing and the Actual
Course of Things: Doing the Business, Helping the World Go Round;
Liz Stanley. Chapter 9: The Unforeseeable Narrative: Epistolary
Lives in Nineteenth Century Iceland; Erla Hulda Halldorsdottir.
Chapter 10: Auto/Pathographies In Situ: 'Dying of Melancholy' in
Nineteenth Century Greece; Dimitra Vassiliadou. Section Four:
Geography Matters: Spatiality and Auto/Biography; edited by John
Barker and Emma Wainwright. Chapter 11: "Trying to Keep Up":
Intersections of Identity, Space, Time and Rhythm in Women Student
Carer Auto/Biographical Accounts; Fin Cullen, John Barker and Pam
Alldred. Chapter 12: Spatiality and Auto/Biographical Narratives of
Encounter in Social Housing; Emma Wainwright, Elodie Marandet and
Ellen McHugh. Chapter 13: "I Thought... I Saw... I Heard...": The
Ethical and Moral Tensions of Auto/Biographically Opportunistic
Research in Public Spaces; Tracy Ann Hayes. Section Five: Madness,
Dys-order and Autist/Biography: Auto/Biographical Challenges to
Psychiatric Dominance; edited by Kay Inckle. Chapter 14:
Autist/Biography; Alyssa Hillary. Chapter 15: Reaching Beyond Auto?
A Polyvocal Representation of Recovery From "Eating Dys-order";
Brid O'Farrell. Chapter 16: [R]evolving Towards Mad: Spinning Away
from the Psy/Spy-Complex Through Auto/Biography; Phil Smith.
Section Six: Prison Lives; edited by Dennis Smith. Chapter 17:
Nelson Mandela: Courage and Conviction - The Making of a Leader;
Dennis Smith. Chapter 18: The "Other" Prison of Antonio Gramsci and
Giulia Schucht; Jeni Nicholson. Chapter 19: Bobby Sands: Prison and
the Formation of a Leader; Denis O'Hearn. - Section Seven:
Professional Lives; edited by Jenny Byrne. Chapter 20: Academic
Lives in a Period of Transition in Higher Education: Bildung in
Educational Auto/Biography; Irene Selway, Jenny Byrne and Anne
Chappell. Chapter 21: Narratives of Early Career Teachers in a
Changing Professional Landscape; Glenn Stone. Chapter 22: What Does
it Mean to be a Young Professional Graduate Working in the Private
Sector?; Jenny Byrne. Section Eight: 'Race' and Cultural
Difference; edited by Geraldine Brown. Chapter 23: Now You See Me,
Now You Don't! Making Sense of the Black and Minority Ethnic (BME)
Experience of UK Higher Education: One Person's Story; Gurnam
Singh. Chapter 24: Raging Against the Dying of the Light; Paul
Grant. Chapter 25: Black Young Men: Problematisation, Humanisation
and Effective Engagement; Carver Anderson. Section Nine: Social
Justice and Disability: Voices From the Inside; by Chrissie Rogers.
Chapter 26: Missing Data and Socio-Political Death: The
Sociological Imagination Beyond the Crime; Chrissie Roger. Chapter
27: Co-Constructed Auto/Biographies in Dwarfism Mothering Research:
Imagining Opportunities for Social Justice; Kelly-Mae Saville.
Chapter 28: An Auto/Biographical Account of Managing Autism and a
Hybrid Identity: 'Covering' for Eight Days Straight; Amy Simmons.
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