Contents
A Cartographic Prelude
Preface—Intentionality vs. Accidentalism
Acknowledgements
Chapter 1: Introduction(s) and the Search for an Autoethnographic Ethic
An Autoethnographic Introduction
Autoethnography Introduced Through the Literature
Autoethnographic Ethics
Relational Ethics
Ethical Guidelines
Contextuality and Reflexivity in Ethics
The Ethics of Revelation and Healing
Dis-em-bodied Ethics
An Ethical Direction
Chapter 2: Engaging the Literature
Three Key Ideas of Autoethnography
Aspect 1: The Ethics of Story Creation
Aspect 2: The Ethics of Story Telling
Aspect 3: Strengths and Limitations of the Researcher and the Method
A Possible Way Forward
Intuitionism as a Philosophical Basis for Ethical Autoethnography
Chapter 3: The Grids: Three Worked Examples of Applying Ethical Grids to Autoethnographic Text
An Introduction to the Grids
Ethical Eyes
Exposure Grid
Ideas and Duties Grid
Chapter 4: Worked Example 1: "An Epistemology of Love"
Autoethnographic Essay: "An Epistemology of Love"
Worked Example 1—"An Epistemology of Love"
Ethical Eyes
Exposure Grid
Ideas and Duties Grid
Discussion of Grids
Chapter 5: Worked Example 2: "Fire Reflections"
Autoethnographic Essay: "Fire Reflections"
Worked Example 2—"Fire Reflections"
Ethical Eyes
Exposure Grid
Ideas and Duties Grid
Discussion of Grids
Chapter 6: Worked Example 3: "What Happened?"
Autoethnographic Essay: "What Happened?"
Worked Example 3—"What Happened?"
Ethical Eyes
Exposure Grid
Ideas and Duties Grid
Discussion of Grids
Chapter 7: Making Sense in Retrospect
Implications for Psychotherapists, Teachers, Memoirists, and Other Writers
An Acceptable Approximate
Appendix
References
Biography
Stephen Andrew has taught counselling and psychology at La Trobe, Swinburne and Monash universities and at the Melbourne Institute for Creative Arts Therapy and Phoenix Institute. He is currently a senior lecturer at the Cairnmillar Institute in Melbourne and sees individuals, couples and supervisees in his private practice.
"The book concludes with an invitation for others to join the journey, suggesting the utility of this ethical approach outside autoethnography—for teachers, journalists, biographers and memoirists. Andrew’s approach to ethics could benefit anyone conducting social science research and has practical applications for novice and seasoned researchers. As a novice qualitative researcher, I appreciate a text devoted to the “how to” of autoethnographic ethics…although this book is much more than that, as most pursuits usually are."
--Janie Copple is a first-year doctoral student in the Qualitative Research and Evaluation Methodologies program at the University of Georgia.
"Searching for an Autoethnographic Ethic is accessible for novice researchers and provides useful, practical advice and techniques to better understand the ethical issues that confront us all."
--ROSE RICHARDS, Stellenbosch University, South Africa
"Stephen Andrew weaves vulnerably written, self-narrative prose and poetry into a guided framework for novice and seasoned autoethnographers on ways to methodically approach ethics. This book chronicles a series of personal, and at times unsettling experiences that have shaped his autobiographical journey and his pursuit towards autoethnographic ethics, realizing along the way that these were always, in parts, pieces of the same puzzle."
--Janie Copple, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, USA
