1st Edition

Artistic Applications through Critical Autoethnography A Therapeutic Approach

Edited By Bryant Keith Alexander Copyright 2027
200 Pages 36 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

200 Pages 36 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

This book promotes a 'therapeutic' aspect of autoethnographic inquiry, performance, presentation, and exhibition. The edited collection engages art, artistic expression, and artistic reflections on lived experience as performative artistic interventions and therapeutics in coping. It is structured around a series of textual autoethnographic performances, position statements by expressive art... Read more

Table of Contents

 

Introduction                                                                                                   Bryant Keith Alexander

Section I: “Performative Applications through Critical Autoethnography”

(Section Frame)                                                                        Bryant Keith Alexander

1.       “Breath, Breathe, Breathing With: Critical Autoethnography as

Coordinated Public Response (CPR)”                                             Bryant Keith Alexander

 

2.       “Shadows Behind the Mattering”                                                              Donna F. Henson

 

3.       “Our bodies remember: On breathing, boxing, and overcoming                                 childhood sexual abuse”                                                           Elisabeth Hanscombe

                                                                               

4.        “Dancing with the Trouble Towards Intra-active Imagination and ‘Also’Ethnography”                                                                                                                        Deborah Green

 

5.       “Space within the Body, Body within Space”                                               Zoe Bauer

 

 

6.       “Breathing History”                                                                       Cymbeline Buhler King

 

7.       “Speaking of We: Poetry as A/r/tographic Inquiry”                                      Angie Hostetler

Section II. “Invoking the Art of the Personal: Perspective of/on Autoethnogrpahy Through Expressive Art Practices”

(Section Frame)                                                                                     Bryant Keith Alexander

8.       Weaving Hybridity: Flow, Diasporic Return and the Cultural In-Between”                                                                                                                                      Joyce Yip Green

 

9.        “Performed Auto-Ethnography and Drama Therapy: Belonging and Not Belonging”                                                                                                      Myriam (Mimi) Savage 

               Jessica Bleuer

10.  “‘I screamed through my art’: An art therapist’s autoethnographic exploration

of protest (art),”                                                                                        Kristyn Stickley

 

             11. “BE(COM)ING Integrating art, therapy, and life”                                        Girija Kaimal                              

12.  AATA panel

STORYTELLING FORMAT - HISTORY OF AHI                                                                                           Ping Ho

Section III: “Applications through Art Therapists (in Training) Artistic Exhibition                                                                                                                                     

(Section Frame)                                                                                   Bryant Keith Alexander

 

13. “Sacred Webs: Exploring the Connection between Nature, Art and Self

Josie Bennett

14. “Birth and Death and Those of Us Left in Between: Using Art to Release Inner Pain”

                                                                                                                Jenna Rose Newman

15. “Landscape”                                                                                              Jacqueline Tardie

             16. “Love is Never Gone to Waste: Heartbreak Externalized Through Art Installation

                                                                                                                                         Renee O’Connor

17. Speaking in Visuals: Healing, Connection, and Sanctuary Through Artistic Dialogue”

                                                                                                                                   Kelly Sheridan

             18. “Blessed is the Peach”, “Comfort Blanket,” and “My Sweet Strawberry”   Jane F. Tse

Section IV: “Critical and Reflective Essays on Autoethnography in/as Therapy and Recuperation” 

(Section Frame)                                                                                   Bryant Keith Alexander

19. “Falling in love with writing: How autoethnography can foster reparative, creative           and collaborative relationships”                          

   Stacy Holman Jones & Daniel X. Harris

20. “Transform, transform, and transform again: Some therapeutic and recuperative possibilities through multimedia autoethnography”                                                     David Carless                                                                       

21. “Wayfinding the Vā: Healing Through Samoan Indigenous Autoethnography and the Sacred Art of Aiga                                                                                                  Fetaui Iosefo

22. “Aesthetic Inquiry into Movement: Attending to Consequences of Physical Immersion in the Natural World and competitive sport"                                                           Kitrina Douglas                                                                                 

 

Section V: “Explorations with/out Conclusions: Helpful Engagements”

(Section Frame)                                                                                 Bryant Keith Alexander

23. Explorations and Speculations on Autoethnographic Fieldwork.     Bryant Keith Alexander

24. Study Questions, Prompts, and Probes for Reflection                       Bryant Keith Alexander

 

 

Biography

Bryant Keith Alexander is Professor and Dean of College of Communication and Fine Arts at Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles.