Biographical Methods and Professional Practice: An International Perspective

doi:10.46692/9781847425874

Biographical Methods and Professional Practice

An International Perspective

The turn to biographical methods in social science is invigorating the relationship between policy and practice. This book shows how biographical methods can improve theoretical understanding of professional practice, as well as enrich the development of professionals, and promote more meaningful practitioner–service user relationships.

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An International Perspective

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Frontmatter
pp i-ii

Contents
pp iii-iv

Notes on contributors
pp v-x

one - Introduction
pp 1-16

Part One - Putting the subject into policy and practice
pp 17-18

two - Biographical methods and social policy in European perspective
pp 19-38

three - Balancing precarious work, entrepreneurship and a new gendered professionalism in migrant self-employment
pp 39-56

four - Considerations on the biographical embeddedness of ethnic entrepreneurship
pp 57-72

five - Ethnic entrepreneurship as innovation
pp 73-90

Part Two - Subjectivity in context
pp 91-92

six - The social subject in biographical interpretive methods: emotional, mute, creative, divided
pp 93-100

seven - A socially and historically contextualised psychoanalytic perspective: Holocaust survival and suffering
pp 101-114

eight - Professional choices between private and state positions in Russia's transformation
pp 115-130

nine - Maintaining a sense of individual autonomy under conditions of constraint: a study of East German managers
pp 131-146

Part Three - Self-awareness in research and practice
pp 147-148

ten - Biographical reflections on the problem of changing violent men
pp 149-164

eleven - The biographical turn in health studies
pp 165-180

twelve - Ethical aspects of biographical interviewing and analysis
pp 181-192

thirteen - Ghost writers: using biographical methods across languages
pp 193-202

Part Four - Recognising trajectories of disempowerment
pp 203-204

fourteen - ‘Bucking and kicking’: race, gender and embodied resistance in healthcare
pp 205-220

fifteen - Biography as empowering practice: lessons from research
pp 221-236

sixteen - ‘It's in the way that you use it’: biography as a tool in professional social work
pp 237-250

seventeen - Interpreting the needs of homeless men: interviewing in context
pp 251-262

Part Five - Biographical resources in education and training
pp 263-264

eighteen - In quest of teachers’ professional identity: the life story as a methodological tool
pp 265-284

nineteen - Narratives, community organisations and pedagogy
pp 285-298

twenty - Doctors on an edge: a cultural psychology of learning and health
pp 299-312

twenty-one - Intercultural perspectives and professional practice in the university: what’s new in Germany
pp 313-330

Index
pp 331-340

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