Staring at the Park

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A Poetic Autoethnographic Inquiry

By Jane Speedy

Series: Writing Lives: Ethnographic Narratives

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Staring at the Park recounts acclaimed qualitative scholar Jane Speedy’s profound journey after a severe stroke in her late 50s. Using her iPad, she crafts a fragmented, poetic combination of text and images that explore her recovery and altered reality. The book employs the seemingly ordinary park opposite her home as a catalyst for an inventive autoethnography, blending imagined crime narratives, realist ethnography, and personal life story to offer a unique artistic inquiry into illness and resilience.
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Ideal for readers interested in qualitative research, autoethnography, and personal narratives of illness and recovery. Also suited to those drawn to innovative, poetic approaches to scholarship in education and reference fields.

The stunning fragmented poetic text and images comprising Staring at the Park depict the events of this difficult journey and an alternative model of evocative, artistic autoethnography.

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Winner of the 2016 ICQI Outstanding Qualitative Book Award

Acclaimed qualitative scholar Jane Speedy’s world was upended completely after suffering a severe stroke when only in her late 50s. After returning home from the hospital, Speedy took to her iPad to write and draw as a way of making sense of her experience and to aid her recovery. The stunning, fragmented, poetic text and images comprising Staring at the Park depict the events of this difficult journey. It provides an alternative model of engaging the self in a research project in an evocative and artistic way.

This highly original book:

Uses the seemingly ordinary motif of the park opposite the author’s house as the catalyst for a wildly creative autoethnography.
Includes three narratives of the author’s experience of staring at the park—a imagined murder mystery in the park, a realist ethnography of the park, and the life story (both imagined and real) of her facing her illness and recovery.
Offers readers a poetic and performative inquiry into the author’s new reality.

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ISBN: 9781629581224

Publisher: Left Coast Press Inc

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 15 May 2015

Country: United States

Imprint: Left Coast Press Inc

Audience: Professional and scholarly

DIMENSIONS

Width: 152.0mm

Height: 229.0mm

Weight: 500g

Pages: 184

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Education & Reference Jane Speedy Non-Fiction Science & Nature Series: Writing Lives: Ethnographic Narratives

About the Author

Prolific scholar Jane Speedy maintains an international reputation for developing innovative interdisciplinary qualitative research methodologies. Professor Emeritus in the Department of Education at the University of Bristol, UK she teaches narrative inquiry and other research methods at the intersection of arts and social sciences. Her current focus is on collaborative writing and various forms of collaborative text production, including collective biography, writing as inquiry, and juxtapositions of various visual and written textual forms. She has a particular interest in web 2.0 technologies, such as blogs, wikis, and Twitter as sites for radical collaborations. Jane was also the coordinator of the Narrative Inquiry Centre in the School of Education at the University of Bristol, UK. She is author of Narrative Inquiry and Psychotherapy and coauthor of Collaborative Writing as Inquiry .

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