Creative Selves / Creative Cultures

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xiii

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2. Researching and Writing Creative Selves/Creative Cultures

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. Creative Selves/Creative Cultures: Critical Autoethnography, Performance, and Pedagogy

      • Stacy Holman Jones

      Pages 3-20

   3. Troubling Autoethnography: Critical, Creative, and Deconstructive Approaches to Writing

      • Susanne Gannon

      Pages 21-35

   4. Performing Teaching, Citizenship and Criticality

      • Marc Pruyn, Lisa Cary, Luis Huerta-Charles

      Pages 37-54

3. Mapping and Remembering Creative Selves/Creative Cultures

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 55-55

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   2. Six Sirens and a Broken Oud

      • Stefan Schutt

      Pages 57-77

   3. Writing Sensation: Critical Autoethnography in Posthumanism

      • Summer Dickinson

      Pages 79-92

   4. Mind and Matter: (Re)membering, Performing, and Being

      • Julianna Kirschner

      Pages 93-100

4. Embodying Creative Selves/Creative Cultures

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 101-101

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   2. Mother-Poems: Using the Confessional as Critique in Autoethnographic Poetry

      • Sandra L. Faulkner

      Pages 103-111

   3. I Am a Monument

      • Anne Harris, Stacy Holman Jones

      Pages 113-129

   4. The Last Days of Education? An Attempt to Reclaim Teaching through Socratic Dialogue

      • Craig Wood

      Pages 131-149

5. Rehearsing and Transforming Creative Selves/Creative Cultures

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 151-151

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   2. Inside Our Islands: Confronting the Colonized Muse in the Decolonizing Performance Space

      • Linden Wilkinson

      Pages 153-168

   3. Shrug Off the Old Lies: Writing Decoloniality in and Through Critical Autoethnograhy with Helene Cixous

      • Elizabeth Mackinlay

      Pages 169-182

   4. Transformer: More Than Meets the I/Eye

      • Fetaui Iosefo

      Pages 183-195

6. Tracing, Playing, and Improvising Creative Selves/Creative Cultures

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 197-197

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   2. Got Lost: Embodied Vocal Performance at the Junction of Autoethnography and Practice-Based Research

      • Jessica Aszodi

      Pages 199-215

   3. Creating Memories: A Cartography of Musical Learning

      • Phoebe Green

      Pages 217-227

This book addresses and demonstrates the importance of critical approaches to autoethnography, particularly the commitment that such approaches make to theorizing the personal and to creating work that embodies a social justice ethos. Arts-based and practice-led approaches to this work allow the explanatory power of critical theory to be linked with creative, aesthetically engaging, and personal examples of the ideas at work. By making use of personal stories, critical autoethnography also allows for commenting on, critiquing, and transforming damaging and unjust cultural beliefs and practices by questioning and problematizing the relationships of power that are bound up in these selves, cultures and practices. The essays in this volume provide readers with work that demonstrates how critical autoethnography offers researchers and scholars across multiple disciplines a method for creatively putting critical theory into action. The book will be vital reading for students, researchers and scholars working in the fields of education, communication studies, sociology and cultural anthropology, and the performing arts.

• Creativity
• Education
• Drama
• Theatre
• Teaching
• critical autoethnography
• performance and pedagogy
• learning and instruction

• Centre for Theatre and Performance, Monash University, Melbourne, VIC, Australia

  Stacy Holman Jones

• Faculty of Education, Monash University, Frankston, VIC, Australia

  Marc Pruyn

Stacy Holman Jones is Professor in the Centre for Theatre and Performance at Monash University, Australia. She specializes in critical qualitative methods, particularly critical autoethnography and critical and feminist theory.  
 
Marc Pruyn is Senior Lecturer in the Faculty of Education at Monash University, Australia. His research focuses on civics, citizenship, social education and multiculturalism.

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