{"product_id":"the-palgrave-handbook-of-autobiography-julie-m-parsons-9783030319762","title":"The Palgrave Handbook of Auto\/Biography","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn 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.\u003c\/p\u003eThis 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 froma section editor, many of whom are established researchers and\/or members of the British Sociological Association (BSA) Auto\/Biography study group.\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe handbook provides 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 1: A Case for Auto\/Biography; Julie Parsons and Anne Chappell.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSection One: Creativity and Collaboration; edited by Gayle Letherby. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 2: The Times are a Changing: Culture(s) of Medicine; Theresa Compton. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 3: Seventeen Minutes and Thirty-One Seconds: An Auto\/Biographical Account of Collaboratively Witnessing and Representing an Untold Life Story; Kitrina Douglas andDavid Carless. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 4: Reflections on a Collaborative, Creative 'Working' Relationship; Deborah Davidson and Gayle Letherby. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSection Two: Families and Relationships: Auto\/Biography and Family, A Natural Affinity?; edited by David Morgan. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 5: Life Story and Narrative Approaches in the Study of Family Lives; Julia Brannen. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 6: The Research Methods for Discovering Housing Inequalities in Socio-Biographical Studies; Elizaveta Polukhina.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 7: Auto\/Biographical Research and The Family; Aidan Seery and Karin Bacon. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSection Three: Epistolary Lives: Fragments, Sensibility, Assemblages in Auto\/Biographical Research; edited by Maria Tamboukou. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 8: Letter-Writing and the Actual Course of Things: Doing the Business, Helping the World Go Round; Liz Stanley. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 9: The Unforeseeable Narrative: Epistolary Lives in Nineteenth Century Iceland; Erla Hulda Halldórsdóttir. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 10: Auto\/Pathographies In Situ: 'Dying of Melancholy' in Nineteenth Century Greece; Dimitra Vassiliadou. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSection Four: Geography Matters: Spatiality and Auto\/Biography; edited by John Barker and Emma Wainwright. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 11: \"Trying to Keep Up\" Intersections of Identity, Space, Time and Rhythm in Women Student Carer Auto\/Biographical Accounts; Fin Cullen, John Barker and Pam Alldred. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 12: Spatiality and Auto\/Biographical Narratives of Encounter in Social Housing; Emma Wainwright, Elodie Marandet and Ellen McHugh.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 13: \"I Thought... I Saw... I Heard...\" The Ethical and Moral Tensions of Auto\/Biographically Opportunistic Research in Public Spaces; Tracy Ann Hayes. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSection Five: Madness, Dys-order and Autist\/Biography: Auto\/Biographical Challenges to Psychiatric Dominance; edited by Kay Inckle. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 14: Autist\/Biography; Alyssa Hillary. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 15: Reaching Beyond Auto? A Polyvocal Representation of Recovery From \"Eating Dys-order\"; Bríd O'Farrell. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 16: [R]evolving Towards Mad: Spinning Away from the Psy\/Spy-Complex Through Auto\/Biography; Phil Smith. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSection Six: Prison Lives; edited by Dennis Smith. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 17: Nelson Mandela: Courage and Conviction - The Making of a Leader; Dennis Smith. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 18: The \"Other\" Prison of Antonio Gramsci and Giulia Schucht; Jeni Nicholson. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 19: Bobby Sands: Prison and the Formation of a Leader; Denis O'Hearn. - Section Seven: Professional Lives; edited by Jenny Byrne. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 20: Academic Lives in a Period of Transition in Higher Education: Bildung in Educational Auto\/Biography; Irene Selway, Jenny Byrne and Anne Chappell. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 21: Narratives of Early Career Teachers in a Changing Professional Landscape; Glenn Stone. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 22: What Does it Mean to be a Young Professional Graduate Working in the Private Sector?; Jenny Byrne. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSection Eight: 'Race' and Cultural Difference; edited by Geraldine Brown. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 23: Now You See Me, Now You Don't! Making Sense of the Black and Minority Ethnic (BME) Experience of UK Higher Education: One Person's Story; Gurnam Singh. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 24: Raging Against the Dying of the Light; Paul Grant.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 25: Black Young Men: Problematisation, Humanisation and Effective Engagement; Carver Anderson. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSection Nine: Social Justice and Disability: Voices From the Inside; by Chrissie Rogers. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 26: Missing Data and Socio-Political Death: The Sociological Imagination Beyond the Crime; Chrissie Roger. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 27: Co-Constructed Auto\/Biographies in Dwarfism Mothering Research: Imagining Opportunities for Social Justice; Kelly-Mae Saville. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 28: An Auto\/Biographical Account of Managing Autism and a Hybrid Identity: 'Covering' for Eight Days Straight; Amy Simmons. \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Julie M. 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