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An Englishman Abroad

An Autoethnographic Tale

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Contemporary British Autoethnography

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

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Life’s trajectories are unpredictable despite our well-intended plans. It is only when we look back that life attracts an incremental, linear and chronological continuum. The anthropologist Anthony P Cohen (1995) says that who a person is at any given time depends upon who is being asked and who is doing the asking.

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  1. Nigel P. Short
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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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Short, N.P. (2013). An Englishman Abroad. 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_7

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