Framed by a newly-written introductory chapter, the collection includes work which spans disciplinary boundaries, bringing together a comprehensive resource which will prove invaluable to scholars in the field.

VOLUME ONE ORIGINS AND ANTECEDENTS Introduction in Reed-Danahay, D. (Ed) Auto/ethnography: Rewriting the Self and the Social - D Reed-Danahay What Do People Do?: Dani Auto-ethnography - Karl Heider Auto-Ethnography: Paradigms, Problems and Prospects - D Hayano From Participant Observation to the Observation of Participants: The Emergence of Narrative Ethnography - Barbara Tedlock On Auto/Biography in Sociology - Liz Stanley The Politics of Location: Where am I Now? - Laurel Richardson What′s in a Research Project: Some Thoughts on the Intersection of History, Social Structure and Biography - Thomas Popkewitz Writing to the Archive: Mass Observation as Autobiography - Dorothy Sheridan WHAT IT IS AND CRITIQUES AND WHAT IT CAN DO Autoethnography, Personal Narrative, Reflexivity: Researcher as Subject - Carolyn Ellis and Arthur Bochner Autoethnography: Self-Indugence or Something More? - Andrew Sparkes Reconsidering ′Table Talk′: Critical Thoughts on the Relationship Between Sociology, Autobiography and Self-Indulgence - Eric Mykhalovsky Narrative′s Virtues - Arthur Bochner Representation, Legitimation and Autoethnography: An Autoethnographic Writing Story - Nicholas Holt Judging the Quality of Qualitative Inquiry: Criteriology and Relativism in Action - Andrew Sparkes and Brett Smith ′On Auto-Ethnographic Authority′ - J Buzard The (Im)Possibilities of Writing the Self-Writing: French Poststructural Theory and Autoethnography - Susanne Gannon Experience and I in Autoethnography: A Deconstruction - Alecia Jackson and Lisa Mazzei Doing Autoethnography - Tessa Muncey Autoethnographic Mother Writing: Advocating Radical Specificity - Patty Sotirin VOLUME TWO Finding the Limits: Autoethnography and Being an Oxford University Proctor - Geoffrey Walford An Autoethnography on Learning About Autoethnography - Sarah Wall Accommodating the Autoethnographic PhD: The Tale of the Thesis, the Viva Voce and the Traditional Business School - Clair Doloriert and Sally Sambrook Analytic Autoethnography - Leon Anderson Rescuing Autoethnography - Paul Atkinson Arguments Against Auto-ethnography - Sara Delamont Truth Troubles - Jillian Owen et al Facts or Fictions? Aspects of the Use of Autobiographical Writing in Undergraduate Sociology - Jane Ribbens Autoethnography and Teacher Development - Jon Austin and Andrew Hickey Disability and (Auto)Ethnography: Riding (and Writing) The Bus With My Sister - G. Thomas Couser Becoming a Sadomasochist: Integrating Self and Other in Ethnographic Analysis - Staci Newmahr Death and Memory: From Santa Maria del Monte to Miami Beach - Ruth Behar Turning Toward Tincup: A Story of a Home Death - Joyce Hocker Autoethnography: An Overview - Carolyn Ellis, Tony Adams and Arthur Bochner VOLUME THREE ETHICAL CONCERNS AROUND AUTOETHNOGRAPHY A Note on Ethical Issues in Autobiography in Sociological Research - Barbara Harrison and E. Stina Lyon Telling Secrets, Revealing Lives: Relational Ethics in Research With Intimate Others - Carolyn Ellis A Review of Narrative Ethics - Tony Adams The Ethics of Writing Life Histories and Narratives in Educational Research - Pat Sikes Caught With a Fake ID: Ethical Questions About Slippage in Autoethnography - Kristina Medford A Critique of Current Practice: Ten Foundational Guidelines for Autoethnographers - Martin Tolich Handing IRB an Unloaded Gun - Carol Rambo With Mother/With Child: A True Story - Carolyn Ellis Sexual Involvement and Social Research in a Fat Civil Rights Organisation - Erich Goode WRITING AND RE-PRESENTING AUTOETHNOGRAPHIC RESEARCH C Writing: A Method of Inquiry - L Richardson A Gentle Going?: An Autoethnographic Short - Jonathan Wyatt Psychic Distance, Consent and Other Ethical issues: Reflecting on the Writing of A Gentle Going? - Jonathan Wyatt Goin′ to the Store, Sittin′ on the Street, and Runnin′ the Roads: Growing up in a Rural Southern Neighbourhood - Carolyn Ellis Writing Like a Guy in Textville: A Personal Reflection on Narrative Seduction - H.L. Goodall, Jr. Revealing and Concealing Secrets in Research: The Potential for the Absent - Brian Rappert Easier Said Than Done: Writing an Autoethnography - Sarah Wall The Academic Tourist: An Autoethnography - Ronald Pelias Narrative and the Re/Production of transsexual: The Foreclosure of an Endured Emergence of Gender Multiplicity - Jodi Kaufmann Multiple Reflections of Child Sex Abuse: An Argument for a Layered Account - Carol Rambo Ronai Autoethnographic Layering: Recollections of Family Tales and Dreams - Jean Rath Performative Autoethnography: Critical Embodiments and Possibilities - Tami Spry Indians in the Park - Norman Denzin Mothers Talk About Their Children With Schizophrenia: A Performance Autoethnography - B Schneider Postcards From Pigtown - Michael Silk The Accusing Body - Tami Spry Standing Centre: Autoethnography, Writing and Solo Dance Performance - Karen Nicole Barbour VOLUME FOUR SPEAKING FOR OURSELVES The Fatal Flaw: A Narrative of the Fragile Body-Self - Andrew Sparkes "Then You Know How I Feel": Empathy, Identification and reflexivity in Fieldwork - Laura Ellingson Chronicling an Academic Depression - Barbara Jago Writing the Othered Self: Autoethnography and the Problem of Objectification in Writing about Illness and Disability - Rose Richards An Autoethnography on Shifting Relationships Between a Daughter, Her Mother and Altzheimer′s Dementia (in any order) - Marina Malthouse The Secret of Time and Immortality at the End of July - Bud Goodall The Consumer Diaries or Autoethnography in the Inverted World - Elizabeth Chin Dreams of my Daughter: An Ectopic Pregnancy - Maria Lahman Waltzing Matilda: An Autoethnography of a Father′s StillBirth - Marcus Weaver-Hightower Opening My Voice Claiming My Space: Theorizing the Possibility of Postcolonial Approaches to Autoethnography - Alice Terry My Journey in grief: A Mother′s Experience Following the Death of Her Daughter Archana Pathak ′′What′s the Footballer Doing Here?′ Racialized Performativity, Reflexivity and Identity - Ben Carrington Native Among Natives: Physician Anthropologist Doing Hospital Ethnography at Home - Shahaduz Zaman Trying to Return Home: A Trinidadian′s Experience of Becoming a ′Native′ Ethnographer - Janice Fournillier Personal Narratives and Cosmopolitan Identities: An Autobiographical Approach - Maria Daskalaki Narrative Inheritance: A Nuclear Family With Toxic Secrets - H.L. Goodall Whose Collection is it Anyway? An Autoethnographic Account of ′Dividing the Spoils′ Upon Divorce - Jackie Goode Becoming a Doctor - Pat Sikes And Robyn Sikes-Sheard Becoming a Leader: A Co-Produced Autoethnographic Exploration of Situated Learning of Leadership Practice - Steve Kempster and James Stewart Situating the Greenham Archaeology: An Autoethnography of a Feminist Project - Yvonne Marshall, Sasha Roseneil and Kayt Armstrong Embodiment, Academics and the Audit Culture: a story seeking consideration - Andrew Sparkes Ethics, Agency and Desire in Two Strip Clubs: A View From Both Sides of the Gaze - Amy Pinney How to Look Good (Nearly) Naked: The Performative Regulation of the Swimmer′s Body - Susie Scott