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