Creative Selves / Creative Cultures: Critical Autoethnography, Performance, and Pedagogy (Creativity, Education and the Arts) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 3319475266 ISBN 13: 9783319475264

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017

Synopsis

This book addresses and demonstrates the importance of critical approaches to autoethnography, particularly the commitment that such approaches make to theorizing the personal and to creating work that embodies a social justice ethos. Arts-based and practice-led approaches to this work allow the explanatory power of critical theory to be linked with creative, aesthetically engaging, and personal examples of the ideas at work. By making use of personal stories, critical autoethnography also allows for commenting on, critiquing, and transforming damaging and unjust cultural beliefs and practices by questioning and problematizing the relationships of power that are bound up in these selves, cultures and practices. The essays in this volume provide readers with work that demonstrates how critical autoethnography offers researchers and scholars across multiple disciplines a method for creatively putting critical theory into action. The book will be vital reading for students, researchers and scholars working in the fields of education, communication studies, sociology and cultural anthropology, and the performing arts.

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About the Author

Stacy Holman Jones is Professor in the Centre for Theatre and Performance at Monash University, Australia. She specializes in critical qualitative methods, particularly critical autoethnography and critical and feminist theory.  

 

Marc Pruyn is Senior Lecturer in the Faculty of Education at Monash University, Australia. His research focuses on civics, citizenship, social education and multiculturalism.

Edition details

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication date: 2017
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3319475266
• ISBN 13: 9783319475264
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 268
• Editor: Holman Jones Stacy, Pruyn Marc