Bøger af Laurel Richardson

A compelling description of lived experience in an extended health care facility and the social, policy, and interpersonal issues raised there, authored by one of the leading literary writers in sociology.

Chronicles the ups and down of a terminally ill woman and the impact that illness has on friends, colleagues, and family alike. Part memoir, part sociological analysis, this book also looks at the ethics of writing deeply personal narratives.

Explores the interplay between literary and ethnographic writing.

How do the circumstances in which we write affect what we write? In a series of traditional and experimental writings, the author records an intellectual journey, creating new ways of reading and writing. The sociological imagination is applied to the act of writing, as life is connected to work.

An exploration of strategies for writing up the same research in different ways - preparing the writer for approaching and addressing diverse audiences.