scholarly journals Autofiction and Photography: “The Split of the Mirror”

2022 ◽  
pp. 309-325
Author(s):  
Laura Marcus
Keyword(s):  
Life Course ◽  
Virginia Woolf ◽  
Life Writing ◽  
Continuity And Change ◽  
Annie Ernaux ◽  
Autobiographical Texts ◽  
The Life Course ◽  
Cultural Theorist ◽  
Life Writings

AbstractThis chapter explores the relationships between life writing, memory, and photography and suggests that the incidence of photographs (actual or described) in life-writing texts is most prominent in autofictional works which possess generic hybridity and often represent identity itself in hybrid terms. The chapter explores images of seeing and mirroring in autobiographical texts, focusing first on transsexual life-writings (including works by Virginia Woolf, Jan Morris, Jay Prosser, and Susan Faludi), in which photographs play a complex role in negotiating continuity and change within the life-course, old and new identities. The second part of the essay turns to recent life-writing texts, including the work of Annie Ernaux (who, like many other French writers, makes substantial use of photographs) and the film and cultural theorist Annette Kuhn.

scholarly journals Saints and Slackers: Challenging Discourses about the Decline of Domestic Cooking

2011 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
pp. 108-120 ◽  
Author(s):  
Angela Meah ◽  
Matt Watson
Keyword(s):  
Life Course ◽  
Public Discourse ◽  
Life Course Perspective ◽  
Food Hygiene ◽  
Cooking Skills ◽  
Continuity And Change ◽  
Food Borne ◽  
The Media ◽  
The Uk ◽  
The Life Course

Amidst growing concern about both nutrition and food safety, anxiety about a loss of everyday cooking skills is a common part of public discourse. Within both the media and academia, it is widely perceived that there has been an erosion of the skills held by previous generations with the development of convenience foods and kitchen technologies cited as culpable in ‘deskilling’ current and future generations. These discourses are paralleled in policy concerns, where the incidence of indigenous food-borne disease in the UK has led to the emergence of an understanding of consumer behaviour, within the food industry and among food scientists, based on assumptions about consumer ‘ignorance’ and poor food hygiene knowledge and cooking skills. These assumptions are accompanied by perceptions of a loss of ‘common-sense’ understandings about the spoilage and storage characteristics of food, supposedly characteristic of earlier generations. The complexity of cooking skills immediately invites closer attention to discourses of their assumed decline. This paper draws upon early findings from a current qualitative research project which focuses on patterns of continuity and change in families’ domestic kitchen practices across three generations. Drawing mainly upon two family case studies, the data presented problematise assumptions that earlier generations were paragons of virtue in the context of both food hygiene and cooking. In taking a broader, life-course perspective, we highlight the absence of linearity in participants’ engagement with cooking as they move between different transitional points throughout the life-course.

scholarly journals Socjalizacja polityczna w przebiegu życia – perspektywa kontynuacji i zmiany

1970 ◽  
pp. 373-400
Author(s):  
Dobrochna Hildebrandt-Wypych
Keyword(s):  
Life Course ◽  
Identity Politics ◽  
Political Socialization ◽  
The Political ◽  
Socialization Process ◽  
Political Learning ◽  
Continuity And Change ◽  
Theoretical Approaches ◽  
Political Orientations ◽  
The Life Course

The following text presents various alternative theoretical approaches in political socialization research. Some of the theoretical insights provided by the functional, systemic and interpretative perspectives are identifiedin order to depict the discussion around the continuity and change within the political socialization research. Whereas in the firstperiod of political socialization research the aim was to explain the continuity in the development of political orientations, it was later forced to account for modificationand the potential for change (especially when addressing the interpretative issues of identity politics). After describing the field’stheoretical shifts, the life-course model of political socialization is presented. The life-course model attempts to deal with the problem of continuity and change in the political socialization process, pointing to its remarkable complexity and lifelong flexibility.It offers a systematic, interdisciplinary and holistic way of conceptualizing political socialization. It points to the importance of political socialization research in demonstrating interdependence between objective functions of the political system and subjective political learning of a reflexive individual.

scholarly journals Residential mobility across the life course: Continuity and change across three cohorts in Britain

2016 ◽  
Vol 30 ◽  
pp. 111-123 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jane Falkingham ◽  
Jo Sage ◽  
Juliet Stone ◽  
Athina Vlachantoni
Keyword(s):  
Life Course ◽  
Residential Mobility ◽  
Continuity And Change ◽  
The Life Course

Life Writing and the Life Course

2017 ◽  
Vol 32 (2) ◽  
pp. 387-388
Author(s):  
Ashley Barnwell
Keyword(s):  
Life Course ◽  
Life Writing ◽  
The Life Course

scholarly journals Using life histories to explore the complexities of internal and international migration

2021 ◽  
Vol 36 (1) ◽  
pp. 111-131
Author(s):  
Colin G. Pooley
Keyword(s):  
Life Course ◽  
International Migration ◽  
Life Histories ◽  
Life Writing ◽  
Demographic Variables ◽  
Migration History ◽  
Residential Migration ◽  
Residential Moves ◽  
The Life Course

AbstractResidential migration is one of the most problematic demographic variables. In Britain there are no sources that routinely record all moves, and the motives behind relocation are rarely recorded. In this paper I argue that the use of life histories can add important depth and clarity to the study of residential moves. The paper focuses on two themes: the ways in which internal and international migration may be linked together over the life course, and the complex mix of reasons why a move may take place. Used sensitively, life histories and life writing can enhance the study of migration history.

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