The Palgrave Handbook of Auto/Biography (eBook)

Julie M. Parsons, Anne Chappell (Herausgeber)

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2020 | 1st ed. 2020
XLIII, 692 Seiten
Springer International Publishing (Verlag)
978-3-030-31974-8 (ISBN)

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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 provided 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.

Julie M. Parsons is Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Plymouth, UK.

Anne Chappell is Senior Lecturer and Divisional Lead in the Department of Education at Brunel University London, UK. 

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 28.4.2020
• Zusatzinfo: XLIII, 692 p. 18 illus., 8 illus. in color.
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Empirische Sozialforschung
• Schlagworte: Autoethnography • Collaboration • Creativity • Disability • Epistolary • epistolary lives • families and relationships • Geography • Historical Writing • Life history • Madness • narrative analysis • Narrative research • Past Lives • Personal life • prison lives • professional lives • Race • Social Justice • sociology of the everyday
• ISBN-10: 3-030-31974-1 / 3030319741
• ISBN-13: 978-3-030-31974-8 / 9783030319748