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The Evocative Autoethnographic I

The Relational Ethics of Writing about Oneself

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Contemporary British Autoethnography

Part of the book series: Studies in Professional Life and Work ((SPLW))

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Autoethnographic writing has often encompassed the kinds of experience we might not ordinarily talk about publicly. Autoethnography has been a vehicle for sharing thoughts, feelings and experience, which might only be witnessed by those close to us, or perhaps kept to ourselves.

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  1. Lydia Turner
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  1. Informal Associate, School of Psychology, University of Sussex, UK

    Nigel P. Short

  2. School of Psychology, University of Sussex, UK

    Lydia Turner

  3. Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust, UK

    Lydia Turner

  4. SNM, Faculty of Health and Social Science, University of Brighton, East Sussex, UK

    Alec Grant

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Turner, L. (2013). The Evocative Autoethnographic I. In: Short, N.P., Turner, L., Grant, A. (eds) Contemporary British Autoethnography. Studies in Professional Life and Work. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6209-410-9_14

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