1. Chapter One: Introduction to Autoethnography
2. Chapter Two: Can’t We All Just Get Along? On the Bifurcation of Evocative and Analytical Autoethnography
3. Chapter Three: Self-Obsession Masquerading as Scholarship? On the Claim that Autoethnography is Narcissistic
4. Chapter Four: Unreliable Narrators: On the Claim that Autoethnography Lacks Validity and Reliability
5. Chapter Five: It’s Not Rocket Science: On the Claim that Autoethnography is not Scientific
6. Chapter Six: This Might Get Personal: On the Claim that Autoethnography is an Emotional, Rather than Analytical, Framework
7. Chapter Seven: The Art of Snore: On the Claim that Autoethnography is Uninteresting
8. Chapter Eight: Sharing is Not Caring: On the Claim that Autoethnography is Not Ethical
9. Chapter Nine: Blurred Lines? On the Claim that Autoethnography Blurs the Genres of Creative Writing and Critical Inquiry.
10. Chapter Ten: Nuance to Nonsense: On the Claim that Autoethnography Oversimplifies Complex Social Phenomena
11. Chapter Eleven: Truth Hurts? On the Claim that Autoethnography Further Entrenches Marginalisation
12. Chapter Twelve: I Rest my Case: Conclusions in the Defence of Autoethnography
Biography
Dane Morace-Court is a senior lecturer in Education at Southampton Solent University. Having used autoethnography as a methodological approach in his own doctoral thesis, Dr. Morace-Court brings a first-hand understanding of the challenges, ethical considerations and potential rewards of such an approach.
