Writing Lives: Ethnographic and Autoethnographic Narratives
About the Book Series
Writing Lives: Ethnographic and Autoethnographic Narratives publishes autoethnographic and narrative research projects across the disciplines of the human sciences—anthropology, communication, education, psychology, sociology, etc. The series editors seek manuscripts that blur the boundaries between humanities and social sciences. We encourage novel and evocative forms of expressing concrete lived experience, including literary, poetic, artistic, critical, visual, performative, multi-voiced, and co-constructed representations. We are interested in ethnographic and autoethnographic narratives that depict local stories; employ literary modes of scene setting, dialogue, character development, and unfolding action; and include the author's critical reflections on the research and writing process, such as research ethics, alternative modes of inquiry and representation, reflexivity, and evocative storytelling.
Prospective authors should submit a Routledge Book Proposal form, current CV, and a completed or nearly-completed manuscript to [email protected], [email protected], and [email protected].
Book proposal form: please download the 'Textbook' guidelines at https://www.routledge.com/resources/authors/how-to-publish-with-us
Good Divorces
1st Edition
Edited
By Reinekke Lengelle, Florene Ypma, Bob Fecho
February 09, 2027
“More than anything, I want readers to know that we are not confined to the stories we come from. We can move forward with dignity even from messy beginnings. Pain, though unwelcome, can shape unexpected beauty. Forgiveness can emerge from within, even when circumstances remain imperfect.” Serena ...
Women, Fieldwork, and the Making of Professional Selves: Sharing the Unsaid
1st Edition
Edited
By Rajashree Ghosh, Susan Thomson Tripathy
February 04, 2027
Fieldwork transforms researchers, but its personal impact is often left out of academic writing. Women, Fieldwork, and the Making of Professional Selves brings together autoethnographic narratives from eight women social scientists, offering candid accounts of how fieldwork shapes professional ...
Renegade: Postmodern Revolution and the Relational Imperative
1st Edition
By Kenneth J. Gergen
January 20, 2027
Renegade: Postmodern Revolution and the Relational Imperative explores a pivotal intellectual shift in the scholarly world, challenging the Western Enlightenment’s focus on individualism and advocating for the primacy of relationships. In the late 20th century, long-held beliefs in truth, ...
Evocative Autoethnographies of Loss, Grief and Death
1st Edition
Edited
By Ian R Lamond, Khyati Tripathi
November 23, 2026
This international collection of evocative autoethnographic essays explores loss, grief, and death through the lived experiences of professionals and individuals intimately connected to end-of-life events. The book offers powerful and evocative reflections on how one's encounters with death and ...
You Can Never Go Offline Again
1st Edition
By Brent Luvaas
September 01, 2026
In the era of ubiquitous computing and the Internet of things, is it still possible to go, or be, offline? Can we still find a more embedded, autonomous, and attentive way of being, away from the constant distraction of our phones and screens? Or is it time to reconcile ourselves to a future, where...
Touched: A Memoir of Child Sexual Abuse and Survival
1st Edition
By Ragan Fox
June 16, 2026
Touched: A Memoir of Child Sexual Abuse and Survival chronicles one man’s experience with sexual abuse and his lifelong journey toward healing and self-understanding. Blending memoir and critical theory, Fox invites readers to rethink how we understand harm, memory, childhood, and queerness. This ...
An Autoethnography of Queer Invisibility: On Shame, Passing, and Identity Suicide
1st Edition
By David Purnell
March 11, 2025
This book recounts a personal journey of self-acceptance, focusing on the author's creation and reliance of a persona (Paul D. Drevlin) as a defense mechanism against societal and familial pressures. Beginning with a childhood marked by traumatic events, the author begins his desire of invisibility...
Writing and Other Familiar Things: Autoethnographic Possibilities
1st Edition
By Ronald J. Pelias
March 11, 2025
Writing and Other Familiar Things: Autoethnographic Possibilities puts on display a number of distinct ways of structuring essays that can be used in qualitative research and creative writing. The book takes as its subject an assortment of things. Part 1 approaches writing from a variety of ...
Ngā Kūaha: Voices and Visions in Māori Healing and Psychiatry
1st Edition
By Wiremu NiaNia, Allister Bush, David Epston
August 30, 2024
Ngā Kūaha: Voices and Visions in Māori Healing and Psychiatry explores what it means to hear voices and see visions from the perspectives of Māori healer Wiremu NiaNia and psychiatrist Allister Bush. Wiremu explains Ngā Kūaha as referring to doorways and offers entranceways into Māori knowledge ...
White Folks: Race and Identity in Rural America
2nd Edition
By Timothy J. Lensmire
June 10, 2024
White Folks explores the experiences and stories of eight white people from a small farming community in northern Wisconsin. Drawing on in-depth interviews with Delores, Frank, William, Erin, Robert, Libby, and Stan, as well as on his own experiences growing up in this same rural community, ...
No One Can Arrest Our Dreams: Black Men Storying a Path Toward Educational Justice and Freedom
1st Edition
By Clarice O. Thomas
February 13, 2024
A narrative inquiry into the lives of three men, Robert, Raheem, and Warren, this book shares their stories about over-discipline in school, adverse teacher-student relationships, and violent community policing that proceeded and intersected with their involvement in the criminal justice system. ...
Unraveling: An Autoethnography of Suicide and Renewal
1st Edition
By M. F. Alvarez
October 09, 2023
Unraveling: An Autoethnography of Suicide and Renewal is an autoethnographic story that explores the intricate relationship among trauma, marginality, and mental health. It follows Mike Alvarez, a precocious gay teenager from an immigrant Filipino family, who loses his grip on reality as he ...