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Troubling Autoethnography: Critical, Creative, and Deconstructive Approaches to Writing

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This chapter explores the parameters of an ‘autoethnography to come’ that might be endlessly expansive, inventive, and creative. Autoethnography is approached as a troubling textual space where writer(s) and reader(s) meet and touch, momentarily, or are repelled, where affect moves and the material things and events of the world bump up against each other in unpredictable ways. The chapter samples six specific experiments in writing risky, relational, provisional subjectivities, and attuning to affective and material modalities.

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Notes

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    This chapter is based on the keynote address at the Critical Autoethnography Conference, Melbourne, 2015.

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    And later an actual glass dress, a short film and a component of a practice-based doctorate by participant and co-author Davina Kirkpatrick (https://vimeo.com/130265747).

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    Susanne Gannon

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Gannon, S. (2018). Troubling Autoethnography: Critical, Creative, and Deconstructive Approaches to Writing. In: Holman Jones, S., Pruyn, M. (eds) Creative Selves / Creative Cultures. Creativity, Education and the Arts. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-47527-1_2

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