Parsons Julie, Chappell Anne (eds.). The Palgrave Handbook of Auto/Biography

New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2020. — 735 p. — ISBN-10: 3030319733; ISBN-13: 978-3030319731.This handbook is specifically concerned with auto/biography, which sits within the field of narrative, complementing biographical and life history research. Some of the contributors emphasise the place of narrative in the construction of auto/biography, whilst others disrupt the perceived boundaries between the individual and the social, the self and the other. The collection has nine sections: creativity and collaboration; families and relationships; epistolary lives; geography; madness; prison lives; professional lives; ‘race’; and social justice and disability. They illustrate the inter- and multi-disciplinary nature of auto/biography as a field. Each section features an introduction from a section editor, many of whom are established researchers and/or members of the British Sociological Association (BSA) Auto/Biography study group. The handbook provides the reader with cutting-edge research from authors at different stages in their careers, and will appeal to those with an interest in auto/biography, auto-ethnography, epistolary traditions, lived experiences, narrative analysis, the arts, education, politics, philosophy, history, personal life, reflexivity, research in practice and the sociology of the everyday.A Case for Auto/Biography; Julie Parsons and Anne ChappellCreativity and Collaboration; edited by Gayle LetherbyThe Times are a Changing: Culture(s) of Medicine; Theresa Compton
Seventeen Minutes and Thirty-One Seconds: An Auto/Biographical Account of Collaboratively Witnessing and Representing an Untold Life Story; Kitrina Douglas and David Carless
Reflections on a Collaborative, Creative 'Working' Relationship; Deborah Davidson and Gayle LetherbyFamilies and Relationships: Auto/Biography and Family, A Natural Affinity?; edited by David MorganLife Story and Narrative Approaches in the Study of Family Lives; Julia Brannen
The Research Methods for Discovering Housing Inequalities in Socio-Biographical Studies; Elizaveta Polukhina
Auto/Biographical Research and The Family; Aidan Seery and Karin BaconEpistolary Lives: Fragments, Sensibility, Assemblages in Auto/Biographical Research; edited by Maria TamboukouLetter-Writing and the Actual Course of Things: Doing the Business, Helping the World Go Round; Liz Stanley
The Unforeseeable Narrative: Epistolary Lives in Nineteenth Century Iceland; Erla Hulda Halldórsdóttir
Auto/Pathographies In Situ: 'Dying of Melancholy' in Nineteenth Century Greece; Dimitra VassiliadouGeography Matters: Spatiality and Auto/Biography; edited by John Barker and Emma Wainwright"Trying to Keep Up": Intersections of Identity, Space, Time and Rhythm in Women Student Carer Auto/Biographical Accounts; Fin Cullen, John Barker and Pam Alldred
Spatiality and Auto/Biographical Narratives of Encounter in Social Housing; Emma Wainwright, Elodie Marandet and Ellen McHugh
“I Thought… I Saw… I Heard…”: The Ethical and Moral Tensions of Auto/Biographically Opportunistic Research in Public Spaces; Tracy Ann HayesMadness, Dys-order and Autist/Biography: Auto/Biographical Challenges to Psychiatric Dominance; edited by Kay InckleAutist/Biography; Alyssa Hillary
Reaching Beyond Auto? A Polyvocal Representation of Recovery From “Eating Dys-order”; Bríd O’Farrell
[R]evolving Towards Mad: Spinning Away from the Psy/Spy-Complex Through Auto/Biography; Phil SmithPrison Lives; edited by Dennis SmithNelson Mandela: Courage and Conviction – The Making of a Leader; Dennis Smith
The “Other” Prison of Antonio Gramsci and Giulia Schucht; Jeni Nicholson
Bobby Sands: Prison and the Formation of a Leader; Denis O’HearnProfessional Lives; edited by Jenny ByrneAcademic Lives in a Period of Transition in Higher Education: Bildung in Educational Auto/Biography; Irene Selway, Jenny Byrne and Anne Chappell
Narratives of Early Career Teachers in a Changing Professional Landscape; Glenn Stone
What Does it Mean to be a Young Professional Graduate Working in the Private Sector?; Jenny Byrne'Race' and Cultural Difference; edited by Geraldine BrownNow You See Me, Now You Don’t! Making Sense of the Black and Minority Ethnic (BME) Experience of UK Higher Education: One Person’s Story; Gurnam Singh
Raging Against the Dying of the Light; Paul Grant
Black Young Men: Problematisation, Humanisation and Effective Engagement; Carver AndersonSocial Justice and Disability: Voices From the Inside; by Chrissie RogersMissing Data and Socio-Political Death: The Sociological Imagination Beyond the Crime; Chrissie Roger
Co-Constructed Auto/Biographies in Dwarfism Mothering Research: Imagining Opportunities for Social Justice; Kelly-Mae Saville
An Auto/Biographical Account of Managing Autism and a Hybrid Identity: 'Covering' for Eight Days Straight; Amy Simmons