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Is there Anything Better than Working-Class?

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Auto-ethnography builds on personal experience. Whether it can provide anything more than self-referential narratives about the situated experience of the (narcissistic) author remains contested. Evocative auto-ethnographers focus on ‘caring and empathizing’. These scholars ‘want to dwell in the flux of lived experience’.

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  1. Faculty of Education and Arts, Federation University Australia, Australia

    Georgina Tsolidis

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  1. University of Adelaide, Australia

    Dee Michell

  2. Federation University, Australia

    Jacqueline Z. Wilson

  3. Federation University, Australia

    Verity Archer

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Tsolidis, G. (2015). Is there Anything Better than Working-Class?. In: Michell, D., Wilson, J.Z., Archer, V. (eds) Bread and Roses. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6300-127-4_13

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