Narrating Social Work Through Autoethnography
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Narrating Social Work Through Autoethnography

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eBook - ePub
Available until 27 Jan |Learn more

Narrating Social Work Through Autoethnography

About this book

Autoethnography is an innovative approach to inquiry located in the interstices between science and literature. Blending researcher and subject roles, autoethnographers use analytical strategies to explore the social and cultural contexts of meaningful life experiences and their implications for the present. Social issues are described from the inside out, producing narratives that reflect the messy, experiential encounters of everyday life. This collection illustrates the value of autoethnography as an inquiry approach for social work practice. Covering such topics as international adoption, cross-dressing, divorce, cultural competence, life-threatening illness, and transformative change, contributors showcase the ambiguities, doubts, contradictions, insights, tensions, and epiphanies that accompany their experiences. This anthology provides a readable and unique example of an exciting new trend in qualitative research.

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Table of contents

  1. CoverĀ 
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright
  4. ContentsĀ 
  5. Foreword
  6. Preface
  7. 1. Autoethnography: The Opening Act
  8. 2. Whereā€™s Beebee? The Orphan Crisis in Global Child Welfare
  9. 3. A Finn in India: From Cultural Encounters to Global Imagining
  10. 4. Being of Two Minds: Creating My Racialized Selves
  11. 5. Learning From and Researching (My Own) Experience: A Critical Reflection on the Experience of Social Difference
  12. 6. What Remains? Heroic Stories in Trace Materials
  13. 7. What Matters Most in Living and Dying: Pressing Through Detection, Trying to Connect
  14. 8. Will You Be with Me to the End? Personal Experiences of Cancer and Death
  15. 9. Holding on While Letting Go: An Autoethnographic Study of Divorce in Ireland
  16. 10. The Pretty Girl in the Mirror: A Gender Transientā€™s Tale
  17. 11. Reality Isnā€™t What It Used to Be: An Inquiry of Transformative Change
  18. 12. From Advising to Mentoring to Becoming Colleagues: An Autoethnography of a Growing Professional Relationship in Social Work Education
  19. List of Contributors
  20. Index