Living autoethnography with Carolyn Ellis: honoring care and compassion in the academy

Carolyn Ellis, S. L. Crawley and Margarethe Kusenbach

Chapter 36 in Handbook of Interpretive Research Methods in the Social Sciences, 2025, pp 551-561 from Edward Elgar Publishing

Abstract: It is no stretch to assert that without Carolyn Ellis, there would be no autoethnography as we know it today in the academy: a groundbreaking, compassionate style of conducting ethnographic research while engaging in reflexive interpretation and writing. Over the past decades, autoethnography has blossomed into a transdisciplinary, international field and community, even a movement. In this conversational interview, Ellis reflects on the beginnings of autoethnography in her own life and career and how it has grown, prospered, and changed since then, besides sharing ideas on theorizing, teaching, and writing (with) autoethnography. Thoughts on her legacy round out the interview.

Keywords: Autoethnography; Lived experience; Introspection; Compassion; Creativity; Social change (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025
ISBN: 9781803926384
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