Staring at the Park

A Poetic Autoethnographic Inquiry

Jane Speedy, Ken Gale, Jonathan Wyatt

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English

Left Coast Press Inc
15 May 2015

Research methods: general; Communication studies; Disability: social aspects; Social & cultural anthropology

Series: Writing Lives: Ethnographic Narratives

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—an 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.

By: Jane Speedy
Foreword by: Ken Gale, Jonathan Wyatt
Imprint: Left Coast Press Inc
Country of Publication: United States
Edition: 1
Volume: 16
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm, Spine: 15mm
Weight: 453g
ISBN: 9781629581224
ISBN 10: 1629581224
Series: Writing Lives: Ethnographic Narratives
Pages: 184
Publication Date: 15 May 2015
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

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 .

Reviews for Staring at the Park: A Poetic Autoethnographic Inquiry

We invite you to take flight on Jane's beautiful, ruptured, suturing words, across the landscape of her stroke and its aftermath. --Ken Gale, Plymouth University, and Jonathan Wyatt, University of Edinburgh ...A beautiful, unique, and courageous book written with passion, eloquence, and wisdom. Professor Speedy provides a precious exemplar of the use of poetic and aesthetic modes of inquiry in drawing sense and coherence out of the chaos that interruptions in the course of one's life can impose. ... --Arthur P. Bochner, University of South Florida [This book] encourages us to focus, watch, and stare in order to curb the hustle of everyday life and attend to the mundane objects and relationships that surround us; a text infused with passion and insight, homage and gratitude. --Tony E. Adams, Forum: Qualitative Social Research