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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

40 Series Titles


Trickster in Tweed The Quest for Quality in a Faculty Life

Trickster in Tweed: The Quest for Quality in a Faculty Life

1st Edition

By Thomas S Frentz
May 15, 2008

How do academics survive the bureaucracy, the petty jealousies, the absurdities of operating in the university? More important, how do they, as humans, cope with the darker shadows that enter professional lives-- illness, sorrow, death? Coyote, The Trickster, a well known figure in the American ...

Last Writes A Daybook for a Dying Friend

Last Writes: A Daybook for a Dying Friend

1st Edition

By Laurel Richardson
August 31, 2007

Betty Frankel Kirschner succumbed to emphysema one day in June. She had been a long-term professor at Kent State University, founding member of the feminist caucus in sociology, a political activist, a chain smoker. Close friend Laurel Richardson, a key figure in literary turn in ethnographic ...

Intimate Colonialism Head, Heart, and Body in West African Development Work

Intimate Colonialism: Head, Heart, and Body in West African Development Work

1st Edition

By Laurie L Charlés
May 15, 2007

Laurie Charlés finished her Ph.D., then took off to West Africa as a Peace Corps volunteer. Asked to create programs to help adolescent girls stay in school, she found herself enmeshed in the politics and cultural barriers that prevent these girls from creating a better life. But that was not all ...

Erotic Mentoring Women's Transformations in the University

Erotic Mentoring: Women's Transformations in the University

1st Edition

By Janice Hocker Rushing
December 15, 2005

They’re everywhere in the academy: young, bright women mentored by older scholars, usually men, who attempt to mold them into their own masculine ideals. Janice Hocker Rushing’s study of over 200 women and their life transformations is the subject of this eloquent book. Using the tropes of ...

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