BIOGRAPHICAL METHODS AND PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE

Contents

Notes on contributors

1. Introduction

2. Biographical methods and social policy in European perspective

3. Balancing precarious work, entrepreneurship and a new gendered professionalism in migrant self-employment

4. Considerations on the biographical embeddedness of ethnic entrepreneurship

5. Ethnic entrepreneurship asinnovation

6. The social subject in biographical interpretive methods: emotional, mute, creative, divided

7. A socially and historically contextualised psychoanalytic perspective: Holocaust survival and suffering

8. Professional choices between private and state positions in Russia’s transformation

9. Maintaining a sense of individual autonomy under conditions of constraint: a study of East German managers

10. Biographical reflections on the problem of changing violent men

11. The biographical turn in health studies

12. Ethical aspects of biographical interviewing and analysis

13. Ghost writers: using biographical methods across languages

14. ‘Bucking and kicking’: race, gender and embodied resistance in healthcare

15. Biography as empowering practice: lessons from research

16. ‘It’s in the way that you use it’: biography as a tool in professional social work

17. Interpreting the needs of homeless men: interviewing in context

18. In quest of teachers’ professional identity: the life story as a methodological tool

19. Narratives, community organisations and pedagogy

20. Doctors on an edge: a cultural psychology of learning and health

21. Intercultural perspectives and professional practice in the university: what’s new in Germany

Index