We put in the hands of the Reader Volume 2 of the ‘Biographical Perspectives’ book series. This series is a part of a broader project, initiated several years ago in the Department of Educational Studies, University of Łódź with a purpose—to put it in a nutshell—to promote multidimensional, transdisciplinary auto/biographical studies.

The monograph Autobiography—Biography—Narration: Research Practice for Biographical Perspectives breaks down a one-way publishing trend associated with the translation of English and German works undertaking multithreaded auto/biographical research issues into Polish. This creates a paradoxical situation in which the Polish readers may easily track the achievements of their foreign colleagues, but—at the same time—here is a lack of works promoting the Polish research thought developed within the interpretive paradigm. To offset this disproportion, at least to a small extent, we have decided to prepare a publication that springs from our subsoil of social sciences and humanities. We hope that the locality, in its positive meaning, manifested in this manner will arouse interest in supralocal recipients, while introducing a ‘fresh note’ into the auto/biographical conceptual mainstream, and perhaps it will become an incentive to take up the challenge of inspired exchange of ideas in the subsequent volumes of ‘Biographical Perspectives.’

This volume includes eight complementary articles that relate to the empirical, methodological, analytical, interpretive and theoretical aspects of the narrative-biographical research. The basic linking assumption of these works is a departure from the trend, still dominant in Poland and especially visible in the social sciences, modeled on the ideas taken from the natural sciences. The co-authors of Autobiography—Biography—Narration, positioning themselves between their source areas of knowledge (pedagogy, psychology, anthropology, sociology and literary studies) and a transdisciplinary auto/biographical research plane, pick up as their starting point the processual perspective of the socio-cultural world, whose central element is the active subject as the creator of his/her own biography. Such assumptions (expressed explicitly and implicitly) provided the basis for reports on the Authors' own research projects (cf. in particular the texts by Karolina Dudek and Anna Kurpiel) and a framework for ordering the purely theoretical aspects of narrative-biographical studies (cf. the article by Katarzyna Gajek).