Biographical Methods and Professional Practice: An International Perspective

doi:10.46692/9781847425874

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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Frontmatter
pp i-ii
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Contents
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Notes on contributors
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one - Introduction
pp 1-16
- By Ursula Apitzsch, Joanna Bornat , Prue Chamberlayne
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Part One - Putting the subject into policy and practice
pp 17-18
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two - Biographical methods and social policy in European perspective
pp 19-38
- By Prue Chamberlayne
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three - Balancing precarious work, entrepreneurship and a new gendered professionalism in migrant self-employment
pp 39-56
- By Ursula Apitzsch
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four - Considerations on the biographical embeddedness of ethnic entrepreneurship
pp 57-72
- By Maria Kontos
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five - Ethnic entrepreneurship as innovation
pp 73-90
- By Feiwel Kupferberg
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Part Two - Subjectivity in context
pp 91-92
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six - The social subject in biographical interpretive methods: emotional, mute, creative, divided
pp 93-100
- By Andrew Cooper
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seven - A socially and historically contextualised psychoanalytic perspective: Holocaust survival and suffering
pp 101-114
- By Daniel Bar-On
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eight - Professional choices between private and state positions in Russia's transformation
pp 115-130
- By Victoria Semenova
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nine - Maintaining a sense of individual autonomy under conditions of constraint: a study of East German managers
pp 131-146
- By Ulrike Nagel
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Part Three - Self-awareness in research and practice
pp 147-148
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ten - Biographical reflections on the problem of changing violent men
pp 149-164
- By David Gadd
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eleven - The biographical turn in health studies
pp 165-180
- By Wendy Rickard
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twelve - Ethical aspects of biographical interviewing and analysis
pp 181-192
- By Kaja Kazmierska
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thirteen - Ghost writers: using biographical methods across languages
pp 193-202
- By Bogusia Temple
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Part Four - Recognising trajectories of disempowerment
pp 203-204
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fourteen - ‘Bucking and kicking’: race, gender and embodied resistance in healthcare
pp 205-220
- By Yasmin Gunaratnam
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fifteen - Biography as empowering practice: lessons from research
pp 221-236
- By Joanna Bornat, Jan Walmsley
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sixteen - ‘It's in the way that you use it’: biography as a tool in professional social work
pp 237-250
- By Riitta Kyllönen
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seventeen - Interpreting the needs of homeless men: interviewing in context
pp 251-262
- By Karin Schlücker
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Part Five - Biographical resources in education and training
pp 263-264
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eighteen - In quest of teachers’ professional identity: the life story as a methodological tool
pp 265-284
- By Marie-Françoise Chanfrault-Duchet
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nineteen - Narratives, community organisations and pedagogy
pp 285-298
- By Rosemary Du Plessis, Jane Higgins, Belinda Mortlock
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twenty - Doctors on an edge: a cultural psychology of learning and health
pp 299-312
- By Linden West
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twenty-one - Intercultural perspectives and professional practice in the university: what’s new in Germany
pp 313-330
- By Lena Inowlocki, Maria Teresa Herrera Vivar, Felicia Herrschaft
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Index
pp 331-340
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