Contemporary British Autoethnography -- TABLE OF CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- INTRODUCTION: STORYING LIFE AND LIVES -- DEFINING AUTOETHNOGRAPHY -- HISTORICAL ROOTS AND CONTEXTS WITHIN QUALITATIVE RESEARCH -- AUTOETHNOGRAPHY AND THE PERSONAL AS POLITICAL -- THE POLITICS OF SUBJECTIVISM -- FUNCTIONS -- VOICE -- INSTITUTIONAL RESISTANCE TO AUTOETHNOGRAPHIC PRACTICE -- RISKS OF AUTOETHNOGRAPHY -- ORGANISATION OF THE BOOK -- THE CHAPTERS -- REFERENCES -- WHEN WE GOT TO THE TOP OF ELM GROVE -- SATURDAY MORNING 7.08 AM, 9TH NOVEMBER 2002 -- IT STARTED LIKE THIS: -- MY TELLING TALE -- AND IT ENDED LIKE THIS -- SHARING -- MEETING SUZANNE -- MOVING STORIES -- REFERENCES -- WRITING TEACHING AND SURVIVAL IN MENTAL HEALTH: A Discordant Quintet for One -- CONSERVING FRUIT -- WHO'S PLATO? -- THE REFLEXIVITY KOAN -- 'IT'S TOO DIFFICULT FOR THEM' -- OUR ENCOUNTERS WITH MADNESS -- SHORT IS AN INPATIENT IN AN ACUTE WARD -- GRANT IS AN INPATIENT IN AN ACUTE WARD -- LEIGH-PHIPPARD IS AN INPATIENT IN AN ACUTE WARD -- THE PERFORMANCE OF TIME-SPACE -- SHORT IS AN INPATIENT IN AN ACUTE WARD -- GRANT IS AN INPATIENT IN AN ACUTE WARD -- LEIGH-PHIPPARD IS AN INPATIENT IN AN ACUTE WARD -- REFERENCES -- CULTURAL CONSTRAINTS: EXPERIENCING SAME-SEX ATTRACTION IN SPORT AND DANCE -- THE FIRST TEAM -- YOU ARE FAMILY -- REFERENCES -- LEAVING THE BLOOD IN: EXPERIENCES WITH AN AUTOETHNOGRAPHIC DOCTORAL THESIS -- JUMPING IN -- IMPACT - SCENE 1 -- Jess is in her early thirties -- WHEN REAL LIFE GETS IN THE WAY -- SMALL BANG -- THE POWER OF DRAMA IN DOCTORAL WORK -- IMPACT - SCENE 2 -- MY BEAUTIFUL GIRL, MY BEAUTIFUL BOY -- IMPACT - SCENE 3 -- MY DARK MATERIAL -- NOTE FROM THE AUTHOR -- REFERENCES -- A TRUTH WAITING FOR A TELLING -- PRELUDE: VOICE -- MR PREDICTABLE -- JAMES -- THE COFFIN -- NOTE -- REFERENCES -- AN ENGLISHMAN ABROAD: AN AUTOETHNOGRAPHIC TALE -- January 2000-Hospital.

Thursday 6th January 2000 -- Sunday 3rd October 2010 -- January 2000-London. Hospital -- February 2000-London. Hospital -- March 2000 -- Tuesday 18th January 2011 -- Hospital -- 6th January 2000 -- 6th January 2000 -- June 2010 -- 7th January 2000 -- March 2000-Hospital -- My first breakfast in the hotel. -- CODA -- REFERENCES -- ASH WEDNESDAYS: AN AUTOETHNOGRAPHY OF (NOT) COUNSELLING -- ONE WEDNESDAY, NOW: APPROACHING THE COUNSELLING ROOM -- ONE WEDNESDAY, NOW: WRITING AT MY DESK -- ONE WEDNESDAY, THEN: MY COUNSELLING ROOM AT THE MEDICAL CENTRE -- ONE WEDNESDAY, NOW: THE LIVING ROOM AT MY HOUSE -- ONE WEDNESDAY, THEN: MY COUNSELLING ROOM AT THE MEDICAL CENTRE -- ONE WEDNESDAY, NOW: THE COUNSELLING ROOM AT MY HOUSE -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- ASSEMBLAGE/ETHNOGRAPHY: TROUBLING CONSTRUCTIONS OF SELF IN THE PLAY OF MATERIALITY AND REPRESENTATION -- INTRODUCTION -- THINKING (NOT) OF SELF -- Sleep-writing -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- WRITING FORMS OF FICTION: GLIMPSES ON THE ESSENCE OF SELF -- INTRODUCTION -- LANDSCAPES AND LIVES -- TWO BANKS OF FOUR AND A SPOT-FACED ROCK DRUMMER -- LITTLE THINGS -- LITTLE THINGS -- FINAL THOUGHTS -- DIDN'T YOU USED TO BE ...? -- SPRING 2010 -- 1ST MARCH 2012 -- IT'S DECEMBER 1979. BRIGHTON -- JANUARY 1980 -- SEPTEMBER 1980 -- SEPTEMBER 1983 -- SEPTEMBER 1984 -- FEBRUARY 2011 -- 31ST OCTOBER 2011 -- TUESDAY 15TH NOVEMBER 2011 -- DECEMBER 2011 -- JULY 2012 -- OCTOBER 2011 -- SEPTEMBER 1986-JUNE 1991 -- SEPTEMBER 1992 -- DECEMBER 1992 -- DECEMBER 2011 -- I THINK IT IS THE SUMMER OF 2000 -- LATER THAT MONTH -- MAY 1996 -- 18TH JANUARY 2011 -- 22ND JANUARY 2011 -- JULY 2011 -- MARCH 5TH 2012 -- JULY 2005 -- FEBRUARY 2009 -- JANUARY 2011-MARCH 2012 -- MARCH 11TH 2012 -- 11TH OCTOBER 2010 -- CODA -- REFERENCES -- ARTIFICIAL PERSONS AND THE ACADEMY: A STORY -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- NOTES -- REFERENCES.

AUTOETHNOGRAPHY AT THE WILL OF THE BODY: REFLECTIONS ON A FAILURE TO PRODUCE ON TIME -- INTRODUCTION -- FEELING ETHICAL DILEMMAS IN THE BODY -- REFLECTIONS -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- REFERENCES -- THE EVOCATIVE AUTOETHNOGRAPHIC I: THE RELATIONAL ETHICS OF WRITING ABOUT ONESELF -- REFERENCES -- CODA -- TEA BREAK -- OUR REFLECTIONS ON THE WORKINGS........ -- Another tea break -- EDITORIAL TEAM/CONTRIBUTING AUTHORS -- CONTRIBUTING AUTHORS.