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- Explores the uses of autoethnography as an influential and radical tool in qualitative educational research and writing
- Argues that autoethnography enables an emotioned, embodied and ethical approach to issues of research and writing in education
- Uses autoethnography to critically examine the potential of autoethnography in education research
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Table of contents (11 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
About this book
Autoethnography is a unique discipline which steps inside and outside the self to experience, embody and express social and cultural meaning. At once a performative, political and poetic genre of research writing, it holds the potential to uncover the ‘heart of the world’, if only for a moment. The author uses theory as story and story as theory to explore her place in the world through painstaking and intimate self and social narratives to lay bare the unique challenges and rewards of autoethnography.
Framed around the metaphor of ‘heartlines’, the author explores autoethnographic practice as critical feminist and decolonial work and the power it holds for not only imagining a wise, ethical and loving world, but for making such a kind place possible. Through a performative journey of the heart, we travel with the author as she unearths the power of words, of writing and not-writing, evoking in particular the work of Hélène Cixous and Virginia Woolf. This reflective, passionate and pioneering volume will be of interest and value to all those interested in autoethnography and the ways in which it can be applied as critical, ethical and political work in the social sciences.
Authors and Affiliations
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School of Education, The University of Queensland, St Lucia, Australia
Elizabeth Mackinlay
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Critical Writing for Embodied Approaches
Book Subtitle: Autoethnography, Feminism and Decoloniality
Authors: Elizabeth Mackinlay
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-04669-9
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Education, Education (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-04668-2Published: 05 March 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-04669-9Published: 21 February 2019
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XV, 265
Number of Illustrations: 23 b/w illustrations
Topics: Sociology of Education, Research Methodology, Ethnography, Social Justice, Equality and Human Rights, Gender and Education