1st Edition

Reading Autoethnography Reflections on Justice and Love

By James M. Salvo Copyright 2020
154 Pages
by Routledge

154 Pages
by Routledge

154 Pages
by Routledge

Reading Autoethnography situates autoethnographic insights within the context of two fundamental concerns of critical qualitative inquiry: justice and love. Through philosophical engagement, it gives close readings of written passages taken from leading autoethnographers and frames the philosophical project of autoethnography as one that is both political and interpersonal. It does this to... Read more
Prefacing Through Acknowledgements

Introduction

Chapter 1. Reading Autoethnography as a Method of Justice

Chapter 2. Being-With, Home, Love

Chapter 3. Thirteen Poems

Chapter 4. The Discovery of Online Dating: A Happy Accident for Two Qualitative Researchers

Works Cited

Biography

James M. Salvo is a Lecturer at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and Wayne State University.

'Reading this book is an empowering process that has further encouraged me to pen personal stories, even in the “publish-or-perish” ethos of academia. This book will be of particular interest to those who have (a) story(ies) to share, but who are not quite sure how to present them in a scholarly manner. In reading this book, I also “feel connected to autoethnographers” (p. vii), who paved the way for me to create the possibilities of writing my own becoming.' - Dave Yan, Educational Review