Crafting Autoethnography: Processes and Practices of Making Self and Culture

This collection explores the processes and practices of autoethnography, focusing on the practical accomplishment of texts/artefacts. It seeks to rectify the hierarchical separation of art and craft and intellectual and practical cultural production, addressing topics such as social class, family relationships, loss, longing, 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.

Format: Hardback
Length: 242 pages
Publication date: 11 May 2023
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd

This comprehensive collection delves into the intricate processes and practices involved in the creation of autoethnographic artefacts. Contributors from diverse fields such as sociology, education, counselling, the visual arts, textiles, drama, music, and museum curation come together to unveil and contemplate their own practices as they craft their unique autoethnographic narratives.

Each chapter in this book explores a different material or media, resulting in a rich and stimulating set of demonstrations. The focus is firmly on the practical accomplishment of texts and artefacts, providing valuable insights and techniques for those engaged in autoethnographic research.

Theoretically, this book aims to bridge the hierarchical divide between art and craft, as well as between intellectual and practical cultural production. By collapsing distinctions between knowing and making, it seeks to rectify the separation between these realms. Contributors address a wide range of topics, including social class, family relationships, intergenerational transmission, loss, longing, grief, the neoliberal university, gender, sexuality, colonialism, race/ism, national identity, digital identities, indigenous ways of knowing/making, and the ways in which these experiences are storied, curated, and presented to the public.

Furthermore, the contributors offer valuable insights into the crafting space itself, recognizing it as a realm of intellectual inquiry, debate, and reflection. This book serves as a core text for readers from both traditional and practice-based disciplines, including qualitative research methods/autoethnographic inquiry courses, as well as community-based practitioners and students. Those interested in creative practice, practitioner-research, and arts-based research in the social sciences and humanities will also find this book to be of great value.

Weight: 630g
Dimension: 234 x 156 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781032313320