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
At Home with Grief: Continued Bonds with the Deceased
1st Edition
By Blake Paxton
February 06, 2018
What would you say to a deceased loved one if they could come back for one day? What if you can’t just ‘move on’ from grief? At Home with Grief: Continued Bonds with the Deceased chronicles Blake Paxton’s autoethnographic study of his continued relationship with his deceased mother. In the 90s, ...
YoungGiftedandFat: An Autoethnography of Size, Sexuality, and Privilege
1st Edition
By Sharrell D. Luckett
November 16, 2017
YoungGiftedandFat is a critical autoethnography of "performing thin"– on the stage and in life. Sharrell D. Luckett’s story of weight loss and gain and playing the (beautiful, desirable, thin) leading lady showcases an innovative and interdisciplinary approach to issues of weight and self-esteem, ...
Autobiography of a Disease
1st Edition
By Patrick Anderson
June 09, 2017
Autobiography of a Disease documents, in experimental form, the experience of extended life-threatening illness in contemporary US hospitals and clinics. The narrative is based primarily on the author’s sudden and catastrophic collapse into a coma and long hospitalization thirteen years ago; but it...
Collaborative and Indigenous Mental Health Therapy: Tātaihono – Stories of Māori Healing and Psychiatry
1st Edition
By Wiremu NiaNia, Allister Bush, David Epston
December 12, 2016
This book examines a collaboration between traditional Māori healing and clinical psychiatry. Comprised of transcribed interviews and detailed meditations on practice, it demonstrates how bicultural partnership frameworks can augment mental health treatment by balancing local imperatives with sound...
Bullied: Tales of Torment, Identity, and Youth
1st Edition
By Keith Berry
April 22, 2016
In this examination of the ubiquitous practice of bullying among youth, compelling first person stories vividly convey the lived experience of peer torment and how it impacted the lives of five diverse young women. Author Keith Berry’s own autoethnographic narratives and analysis add important ...
Evocative Autoethnography: Writing Lives and Telling Stories
1st Edition
By Arthur Bochner, Carolyn Ellis
March 21, 2016
This comprehensive text is the first to introduce evocative autoethnography as a methodology and a way of life in the human sciences. Using numerous examples from their work and others, world-renowned scholars Arthur Bochner and Carolyn Ellis, originators of the method, emphasize how to connect ...
Transcribing Silence: Culture, Relationships, and Communication
1st Edition
By Kristine L Muñoz
September 15, 2014
Kristine Muñoz’s volume of short narrative works-- autoethnographies and fictional stories—explore many dimensions of silence, a crucial but often overlooked communication phenomenon, one that drives much of everyday talk and relationships. Framed by an introductory essay that synthesizes research ...
Coming to Narrative: A Personal History of Paradigm Change in the Human Sciences
1st Edition
By Arthur P Bochner
April 15, 2014
Reflecting on a 50 year university career, Distinguished Professor Arthur Bochner, former President of the National Communication Association, discloses a lived history, both academic and personal, that has paralleled many of the paradigm shifts in the human sciences inspired by the turn toward ...
Playing with Purpose: Adventures in Performative Social Science
1st Edition
By Mary M Gergen, Kenneth J Gergen
April 30, 2012
Distilling decades of work spanning their prestigious careers, Mary M. and Kenneth J. Gergen make a strong case for enriching the social sciences through performative work. They present a unique exploration of the origins of performative social science and provide an intellectually rich overview of...
Life After Leaving: The Remains of Spousal Abuse
1st Edition
By Sophie Tamas
July 01, 2011
After leaving her twelve-year marriage, Sophie Tamas went to the local women's shelter to ask if she had been abused. The result is Life after Leaving, a performative, arts-based journey into the aftermath of spousal abuse and the endless struggle to make sense of loss. We see Sophie's world—the ...
Leaning: A Poetics of Personal Relations
1st Edition
By Ronald J Pelias
March 01, 2011
Ronald J Pelias explores leaning as a metaphor for analyzing interpersonal interaction. Bodies leaning toward one another are engaged, developing the potential for long-lasting, meaningful relationships. But this ideal is not often realized. Pelias makes use of a wide variety of tools such as ...
Narrating the Closet: An Autoethnography of Same-Sex Attraction
1st Edition
By Tony E Adams
February 28, 2011
Motivated by the death of his partner, Adams seeks to redefine the closet as a relational construct between all people and all sexualities. The closet is explored at each stage—entering it, inhabiting it, and coming out of it—and strategies are offered for reframing difficult closet experiences. ...