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This book is a collection of studies on "auto-biographical research." It consists of factual sociological analyses, as well as more theoretical or methodological studies. All texts originated in sequence with an experimental research project, where eight Czech sociologists worked together within 1991-1995, writing and interpreting their own biographies. The participants were joined by their common interest in "normal life in abnormal conditions" in the period of state socialism. The book has been published in Czech and English.
PROLOGUE
Chapter 1: What is SAMISEBE? (Zdenek Konopásek)
PART I: TEXTS
Chapter 2: A Very Personal Epistemology of the SAMISEBE Project (Miroslav Disman)
Chapter 3: Family Relationships and Membership in the Czechoslovak Communist Party (Josef Alan)
Chapter 4: Housing Stories: Family Strategies. Related to the Property Maintenance and Transfer (Olga Šmídová)
Chapter 5: The Devilish Cocktail of the Velvet Revolution (Jirí Kabele)
Chapter 6: Grandma Sociology (Reconsidered) (Zdenek Konopásek)
PART II: DOCUMENTS
Introduction to the SAMISEBE Narratives (Miroslav Disman and Zdenek Konopásek)
Life Narratives 1: Josef Alan (Biography and autobiography, first level; Biography, second level; What the Communist Party has meant in my life; How the SAMISEBE project came to be?; Posessions and belongings)
Life Narratives 2: Miroslav Disman (Biography, first level; Biography, second level)
Life Narratives 3: Karel Holý (Biography, second level - Jihlava, 1929-1943; Ceská Trebová, 1943-1945; Prague, 1946-1951; Prague, 1970-1990)
Life Narratives 4: Jirí Kabele (Biography, first level; Biography, second level; The last three years)
Life Narratives 5: Jaroslav Kupr (Tales of social unjustice; Discussion between father and daughter about socialism)
Life Narratives 6: Zdenek Konopásek (The last three years; What the Communist Party meant and means in my life?; Biography, second level)
Life Narratives 7: Eva Stehlíková (First encounter - with Jews; Autobiography, first level; Communist Party; Morning spaces and times). Life Narratives 8: Olga Šmídová (What the Communist Party mean to me; My - various - mornings)
EPILOGUE
Chapter 7: Reflexive Autobiographies: Interpreting the East - Understanding the West (Zdenek Konopásek).
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This book is a collection of studies on "auto-biographical research." It consists of factual sociological analyses, as well as more theoretical or methodological studies. All texts originated in sequence with an experimental research project, where eight Czech sociologists worked together within 1991-1995, writing and interpreting their own biographies. The participants were joined by their common interest in "normal life in abnormal conditions" in the period of state socialism. The book has been published in ...