Biographical Methods and Professional Practice

by Bornat, Joanna

• ISBN13: 9781861344922
• ISBN10: 1861344929
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2004-04-01
• Publisher: Policy Pr

Table of Contents

Notes on contributors	v
one Introduction	1	(16)
Ursula Apitzsch, Joanna Bornat and Prue Chamberlayne
Part One: Putting the subject into policy and practice	17	(74)
two Biographical methods and social policy in European perspective	19	(20)
Prue Chamberlayne
three Balancing precarious work, entrepreneurship and a new gendered professionalism in migrant self-employment	39	(18)
Ursula Apitzsch
four Considerations on the biographical embeddedness of ethnic entrepreneurship	57	(16)
Maria Kontos
five Ethnic entrepreneurship as innovation	73	(18)
Feiwel Kupferberg
Part Two: Subjectivity in context	91	(56)
six The social subject in biographical interpretive methods: emotional, mute, creative, divided	93	(8)
Andrew Cooper
seven A socially and historically contextualised psychoanalytic perspective: Holocaust survival and suffering	101	(14)
Daniel Bar-On
eight Professional choices between private and state positions in Russia's transformation	115	(16)
Victoria Semenova
nine Maintaining a sense of individual autonomy under conditions of constraint: a study of East German managers	131	(16)
Ulrike Nagel
Part Three: Self-awareness in research and practice	147	(56)
ten Biographical reflections on the problem of changing violent 149 men
David Gadd
eleven The biographical turn in health studies	165	(16)
Wendy Rickard
twelve Ethical aspects of biographical interviewing and analysis	181	(12)
Kaja Kazmierska
thirteen Ghost writers: using biographical methods across languages	193	(10)
Bogusia Temple
Part Four: Recognising trajectories of disempowerment	203	(60)
fourteen 'Bucking and kicking': race, gender and embodied resistance in healthcare	205	(16)
Yasmin Gunaratnam
fifteen Biography as empowering practice: lessons from research	221	(16)
Joanna Bornat and Jan Walmsley
sixteen 'It's in the way that you use it': biography as a tool in professional social work	237	(14)
Riitta Kyllönen
seventeen Interpreting the needs of homeless men: interviewing in context	251	(12)
Karin Schlücker
Part Five: Biographical resources in education and training	263	(68)
eighteen In quest of teachers' professional identity: the life story as a methodological tool	265	(20)
Marie-Françoise Chanfrault-Duchet
nineteen Narratives, community organisations and pedagogy	285	(14)
Rosemary Du Plessis, Jane Higgins and Belinda Mortlock
twenty Doctors on an edge: a cultural psychology of learning and health	299	(14)
Linden West
twenty-one Intercultural perspectives and professional practice in the university: what's new in Germany	313	(18)
Lena Inowlocki, Maria Teresa Herrera Vivar and Felicia Herrschaft
Index	331