Meaningful Journeys
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Meaningful Journeys

Autoethnographies of Quest and Identity Transformation

  1. 248 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Meaningful Journeys

Autoethnographies of Quest and Identity Transformation

About this book

Meaningful Journeys is an edited collection of autoethnographies underpinned by the conceptual, philosophical, and etymological origins of 'journeying, ' 'questing, ' and traditional and modern understandings of 'pilgrimage.'

The volume contains chapters on the ways in which all these concepts intersect with identity and identity transformation. These range across narratives of sport; adventure; preferred identity; curative religion; revered location; nostalgia; grief resolution; 'out of suitcase' travels; and pilgrimage journeys understood in more traditional senses. The collection showcases and promotes the identity transformational quest as an important conceptual nuance of narrative autoethnography. Readers will engage with the ways in which contributing authors craft their emerging selves into preferred identities, which showcase personal and relational change in action.

This book is essential reading for students and practitioners of autoethnography and qualitative research internationally and others interested in identity transformation in narrative inquiry.

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Information

Publisher
Routledge
Year
2024
Print ISBN
9781032484761
eBook ISBN
9781040015278
Edition
1
Topic
Psychology
Subtopic
Developmental Psychology
Index
Psychology

Table of contents

  1. Cover Page
  2. Half-Title Page
  3. Endorsements Page
  4. Title Page
  5. Copyright Page
  6. Dedication Page
  7. Contents
  8. Foreword
  9. Foreword
  10. Acknowledgements
  11. Editor Biography
  12. Contributors
  13. 1 Meaningful Journeys, Identity Transformation, and Autoethnographic Selfhood
  14. 2 Running Towards Death: A tale of an old man in trainers
  15. 3 The Red Carpet Quest: An ironman competitor’s transformational journey
  16. 4 A Motorcycle Pilgrimage on Icelandic F-Roads
  17. 5 Solo Trails/Trials for this Unlikely Hiker: Purpose, purity, and quest
  18. 6 The Pilgrimage to Manhood: An autoethnographic account of transition from female to male as a journey of self-discovery
  19. 7 A Scot an’ a Sassenach Scrieve Aboot Leid: A three pairt Scotoethnography (A Scot and an English person write about language: A Scotoethnography in three parts)
  20. 8 Curative Encounters: Representations of the transformational journey of the pilgrim to Lourdes
  21. 9 Welsh Pilgrimage: A quest for a reaffirmed national identity and a secular journey to a spiritual locus
  22. 10 A Journey Through Prolonged Grief: Transforming identity to heal and reconcile loss
  23. 11 Professor Out of a Suitcase (or Ferris Bueller’s Year Off)
  24. 12 Paying Respects to the Greatest: Ziyarat in Louisville, Kentucky
  25. 13 Pilgrimage to a Shared Site: A Buddhist scholar and Muslim scholar visit Borobudur
  26. Index