Writing Philosophical Autoethnography (Writing Lives: Ethnographic Narratives) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1032229128 ISBN 13: 9781032229126

Publisher: Routledge, 2023

Synopsis

Writing Philosophical Autoethnography is the result of Alec Grant’s vision of bringing the disciplines of philosophy and autoethnography together. This is the first volume of narrative autoethnographic work in which invited contributing authors were charged with exploring their issues, concerns, and topics about human society, culture, and the material world through an explicitly philosophical lens.

Each chapter, while written autoethnographically, showcases sustained engagement with philosophical arguments, ideas, concepts, theories, and corresponding ethical positions. Unlike much other autoethnographic work, within which philosophical ideas often appear to be "grafted on" or supplementary, the philosophical basis of the work in this volume is fundamental to its shifting content, focus, and context. The narratives in this book, from scholars working in a range of disciplines in the humanities and human sciences, function as narrative, conceptual, and analytical exemplars to act as a guide for autoethnographers in their own writing, and suggest future directions for making autoethnography more philosophically rigorous.

This book is suitable for students and scholars of autoethnography and qualitative methods in a range of disciplines, including the humanities, social and human sciences, communication studies, and education.

About this title

About the Author

Alec Grant, PhD, is Visiting Professor in the Department of Psychology and Education, Faculty of Professional Studies, University of Bolton, UK.

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2023
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1032229128
• ISBN 13: 9781032229126
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 314
• Editor: Grant Alec