Creative arts and critical autobiography : challenges of blending the deeply personal and the academic in qualitative research

Yuki Itani-Adams

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    Abstract

    In 2002 I completed my doctoral thesis Daughters of Persephone: legacies of maternal 'madness' (Catherine Camden Pratt 2002) which used creative arts and critical auto-biography as auto-ethnographic method. In this chapter I discuss these as research method and as a way of representing research in critical social sciences. In it I focus on aspects of writing, painting, collage and symbol use. I highlight the political challenges of these cross-disciplinary and messy ways of researching within the academy.
    Original languageEnglish
    Title of host publicationBeing Critical and Creative in Qualitative Research
    EditorsJoy Higgs, Angie Titchen, Debbie Horsfall, Hilary Armstrong
    Place of PublicationSydney, N.S.W
    PublisherHampden Press
    Pages248-260
    Number of pages13
    ISBN (Print)9781875648191
    Publication statusPublished - 2007

    Keywords

    • research
    • social sciences
    • arts
    • methodology
    • autobiography

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