Storying the Self

Performance and Communities

Author: Jess Moriarty and Ross Adamson Series: Performance and Communities

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Autoethnographic and autobiographical explorations of social identities and relationships, (un)belonging, and how practitioners and academics do their work. They show the ongoing need to rethink and re-examine how to do critical and engaging scholarly work. Life stories are necessarily, messy, complex and personal experiences. 34 b/w illus.

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Using writing and narrative to make sociopolitical meaning from autobiography.

Through a wide array of texts and methodologies, Storying the Self spotlights autoethnographic research—and pushes the discipline in new directions. This edited volume aims to explore critical and creative approaches to understanding the self in relation to vital social, cultural, and political spheres. Chapters touch on memory and nostalgia, voluntourism in Malawi, the importance of intersectionality, documentary filmmaking, epilepsy, and other experiences to examine the role of the self, as both researcher and storyteller.

Storying the Self features contributions by Ross Adamson, Suzy Bamblett, Emily Bell, Jenni Cresswell, Hannah Davita Ludikhuijze, Sandra Lyndon, Vanessa Marr, Éva Mikuska, Jess Moriarty, Deirdre Russell, Louise Spiers, Holly Stewart, and Lucianna Whittle. It is the first book in Intellect’s innovative new series Performance and Communities, which celebrates, challenges, and researches performance in the real world.

About the Author

Ross Adamson is a researcher/practitioner in documentary filmmaking and digital storytelling. He has completed a doctorate in education at Bournemouth University on practical knowledge and documentary filmmaking and collaborated on several digital storytelling projects (AHRC and EU funding). He publishes narrative hermeneutic research in auto/biography, and documentary filmmaking and digital storytelling practices.

Dr Jess Moriarty is a principal lecturer at the University of Brighton where she is course leader on the creative writing masters degree. She has published widely on autoethnography and pedagogy in writing practice. Jess works on engaging students in community projects and using innovative and personal writing to challenge traditional academic discourse. She focuses on developing her student’s confidence with their creativity and writing.