Crafting Autoethnography

Jackie Goode is a Visiting Fellow in Qualitative Research in the School of Social Sciences and Humanities, Loughborough University, UK.

This collection explores how autoethnography is made. Contributors reflect on the processes they engage in as they craft their autoethnographic artefacts. Each chapter explores a different material or media, together creating a rich and stimulating set of demonstrations, with focus on the practical accomplishment of texts/artefacts.

Introduction; Section I: This Writing Life 1. Shoring Up the Fragments 2. When the Slave Ships Came; Section II: Making a Drama Out of It Chapter 3. Reflections and Confessions on the Making of a Performative Autoethnography: University Professional Development Reviews and the Academic Self 4. Mi amigo Giovanni: A Digital Engagement of Friendship, Community and Queer Love Through a Zoom Performance; Section III: Crafting Selves 5. Thinking with our Hands while Becoming Autoethnographers 6. Putting Ourselves in the Picture: An Autoethnographic Approach to Photography Criticism 7. Digital Autoethnography: An Approach to Facilitate Reflective Practice in the Making and Performing of Visual Art 8. Stitching as Reflection and Resistance: The Use of a Stitch Journal During Doctoral Study 9. Making The Dreamer: Cut-ups, Découpage and Narrative Assemblages of Interbeing and Becoming; Section IV: Creating Class 10. Hidden Time: An Autoethnographical Narrative on the Creation of Seven Working-Class Time Pieces 11: Coming Back to Class: The Remaking of an Academic Self; Section V: Place and Belonging 12. Walking as Knowing, Healing, and the (Re)making of Self 13. Where the River Flows Out to the Sea: A Story of Place-Making 14. Making Mistakes: Learning Through Embarrassment when Curating Indigenous Collections in UK Museums; Conclusion