How to Craft Autoethnography 1st Edition

How to Craft Autoethnography, 1st Edition by Marcus B. Weaver-Hightower (Routledge) is an accessible, methodical guide for scholars, graduate students, and reflective writers aiming to merge personal narrative with rigorous social inquiry. Weaver-Hightower demystifies autoethnography by offering clear conceptual frameworks, practical writing strategies, and a principled approach to reflexivity and ethical representation.

Key features:
– Step-by-step methodology: Concrete guidance on designing projects, gathering autoethnographic data, and structuring analytic narratives.
– Balance of craft and theory: Integrates methodological foundations with hands-on techniques for storytelling, interpretation, and theorizing from the self.
– Reflexivity and ethics: Practical advice for negotiating positionality, consent, and the responsibilities of representation.
– Readable examples: Model excerpts and illustrative cases demonstrate how to transform lived experience into persuasive scholarship.
– Pedagogical utility: Ideal for classroom use, workshops, or independent study—helps readers build confidence in both research and prose.

Concise, engaging, and professionally oriented, this volume is an essential resource for anyone seeking to produce autoethnography that is both emotionally resonant and academically robust.

Note: eBooks do not include supplementary materials such as CDs, access codes, etc.