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
Evocative Autoethnographies of Loss, Grief and Death
1st Edition
Edited
By Ian R Lamond, Khyati Tripathi
September 30, 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
August 10, 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 ...
Writing Philosophical Autoethnography
1st Edition
Edited
By Alec Grant
September 15, 2023
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, ...
A Performative Autoethnography of Five Black American Men
1st Edition
By Stefan Battle
July 11, 2023
In this book, Stefan Battle weaves together autoethnographic narrative and ethnographic performance material from his own life and those of four other Black men, to show the untold impact of racial trauma on these everyday lives. By engaging readers with these experiences, stories, and pain, the ...
An Autoethnography of Letter Writing and Relationships Through Time: Finding our Perfect Moon
1st Edition
By Jennifer L. Adams
June 27, 2023
An Autoethnography of Letter Writing and Relationships Through Time: Finding Our Perfect Moon is about love letters, stories, and the ability of words to bring people together across time and physical space. Weaving together edited and annotated letters between a young couple in the 1930s with ...