Ethnography Book Announcements

Two new books from Routledge  in Writing Lives: Ethnographic Narratives
Series, edited by Bochner and Ellis

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Bullied: Tales of Torment, Identity, and Youth.  Author:  Keith Berry
(to be published in early May, 2016)

In this examination of the ubiquitous practice of bullying among youth,
compelling first person stories vividly convey the lived experience of
peer torment and how it impacted the lives of five diverse young women.
Author Keith Berry's own autoethnographic narratives and analysis add
important relational communication, methodological, and ethical
dimensions to their accounts. The personal stories create an opening to
understand how this form of physical and verbal violence shapes
identities, relationships, communication, and the construction of
meaning among a variety of youth. The layered narrative

* describes the practices constituting bullying and how youth work to
cope with peer torment and its aftermath, largely focusing on identity
construction and well being;

* addresses contemporary cyberbullying as well as other forms of
relational aggression in many social contexts across race, gender, and
sexual orientations;

* is written in a compelling way to be accessible to students in
communication, education, psychology, social welfare, and other fields.
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Evocative Autoethnography: Writing Lives and Telling Stories. Authors:
Arthur P. Bochner and Carolyn Ellis (published April 2016)

This comprehensive text introduces evocative autoethnography as a
methodology and a way of life in the human sciences. Using numerous
examples from their work and others, scholars Arthur Bochner and Carolyn
Ellis, originators of the method, emphasize how to connect
intellectually and emotionally to the lives of readers throughout the
challenging process of representing lived experiences. Written as the
story of a fictional workshop, based on many similar sessions led by the
authors, it incorporates group discussions, common questions, and
workshop handouts. The book:

* describes the history, development, and purposes of evocative
storytelling;

* provides detailed instruction on becoming a story-writer and living a
writing life;

* examines fundamental ethical issues, dilemmas, and responsibilities;
illustrates ways ethnography intersects with autoethnography;

* calls attention to how truth and memory figure into the works and
lives of evocative autoethnographers.