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I want to tell a story with no real beginning or end, as I’m kind of always in the middle of it. It’s a story about stories, or is it a story with stories in it – something that’s autoethnographic with traces of meta-autoethnography about it? At one level it’s about a trickster self interrogating and troubling culture/s, if ‘self’ is understood in poststructural terms and ‘culture’ as co-performativity and production of meaning with no essential self behind it.
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Grant, A. (2013). Writing Teaching and Survival in Mental Health. In: Short, N.P., Turner, L., Grant, A. (eds) Contemporary British Autoethnography. Studies in Professional Life and Work. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6209-410-9_3
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