Chapter 3 Women Cycling Through the Life Course: An Australian Case Study

2012 ◽  
pp. 59-81 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jennifer Bonham ◽  
Anne Wilson
Keyword(s):  
Life Course ◽  
Australian Case ◽  
The Life Course

scholarly journals Selecting life course frameworks to guide and communicate large new cohort studies: Generation Victoria (GenV) case study

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-20
Author(s):  
Jing Wang ◽  
Yanhong Jessika Hu ◽  
Susan Clifford ◽  
Sharon Goldfeld ◽  
Melissa Wake
Keyword(s):  
Life Course ◽  
Feedback Loops ◽  
Knowledge Networks ◽  
Birth Cohorts ◽  
Australian Institute ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Visual Graphic ◽  
The Life Course ◽  
Research And Policy

Abstract While birth cohorts are shaped by underpinning life course frameworks, few if any report how they select them. This review aimed to (1) summarise publicly available frameworks relevant to planning and communicating large new early-life cohorts and (2) help select frameworks to guide and communicate Generation Victoria (GenV), a whole-of-state birth and parent cohort in planning in the state of Victoria, Australia. We identified potential frameworks from prior knowledge, networks and a pragmatic literature search in 2019. We considered for inclusion only frameworks with an existing visual graphic. We summarised each framework’s concept, then judged it on a seven-item matrix (Scope, Dimensions, Outcomes, Life course, Mechanisms, Multi-age, and Visual Clarity) to be of high, intermediate or low relevance to GenV. We presented and evaluated 14 life course frameworks across research and policy. Two, nine and three frameworks, respectively, were ranked as high, intermediate and low relevance to GenV, although none totally communicated its scope and intent. Shonkoff’s biodevelopmental framework was selected as GenV’s primary framework, adapted to include ongoing feedback loops through the life course and influence of an individual’s outcomes on the next generation. Because conceptual simplicity precluded the primary framework from capturing the wide range of relevant exposures, we selected the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare’s person-centred model as a secondary framework. This summary of existing life course frameworks may prove helpful to other cohorts in planning. Our transparent process and focus on visual communication are already assisting in explaining and selecting measures for GenV. The feasibility, comprehension and validity of these frameworks could be further tested at implementation.

Play and Playfulness in Late Medieval Britain

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. A. Hall
Keyword(s):  
Gender Identity ◽  
Material Culture ◽  
Life Course ◽  
Social Performance ◽  
Medieval Period ◽  
Late Medieval ◽  
Board Games ◽  
And Performance ◽  
The Life Course

Play and playfulness is a key element in enabling social performance and one that transcends ethnicity, time, and space across all social levels. This contribution explores board games as a case study of play and performance in the medieval period, in a European context. It highlights some of the key discoveries of gaming material culture and their diverse contexts: castles, monasteries, churches, villages, and ships included. These underpin questions of gender, identity, pilgrimage behaviour and ritual, and the life-course. Play, it is argued is fundamental to the performance and negotiation of agency in a range of gendered settings both secular and religious.

From positive ageing to positive living; a changing perspective from the Beth Johnson Foundation

2015 ◽  
Vol 19 (4) ◽  
pp. 165-169
Author(s):  
Lynne Marie Wealleans
Keyword(s):  
Older People ◽  
Life Course ◽  
Active Ageing ◽  
Negative Stereotypes ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Language And Culture ◽  
Inclusive Approach ◽  
Positive Ageing ◽  
The Life Course

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to disseminate the learning from the positive ageing and positive living projects of the Beth Johnson Foundation (BJF) and to contribute to the discourse around ageing and older people. Design/methodology/approach – The content for this case study was drawn from evidence gathering activities with different generations of older people, with key stakeholders, commissioners and policy makers. This was supported by extensive desk top analysis of information and research on the subjects of positive and active ageing. Findings – This case study examines the key elements of positive ageing within a life course context and explores the language and culture around ageing. It makes some recommendations, based on practice, that support a change in the dialogue around ageing from positive ageing to positive living. Practical implications – This approach is of interest to all citizens, to those who work with older people, to commissioners and to decision makers. It promotes a multi-generational approach to the co-design of services. It supports prevention, health promotion and appropriate interventions which are not based on age. It also, therefore, promotes ageing as a “natural” part of the life course, challenges negative stereotypes around ageing and ensures accessible, inclusive and quality services. Social implications – The content and conclusions of the case study challenge some of the traditional thinking and approaches around ageing and recommend a more inclusive approach to service design and delivery. The case study also addresses some of the issues around the language used and the culture around ageing which will contribute to a more forward thinking approach. Originality/value – This is an original case study based on the work of the BJF over a ten year period as it developed its’ Positive Ageing and Positive Living programmes. BJF has been at the forefront of the positive ageing movement by developing mid-life programmes of work and is acknowledged as an expert organisation in the field of intergenerational (and now multi-generational) practice and age friendly communities.

Imagination in Adults and the Aging Person

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tania Zittoun ◽  
Tatsuya Sato
Keyword(s):  
Older Adults ◽  
Life Course ◽  
Children And Adolescents ◽  
Elderly People ◽  
Extreme Case ◽  
Bifurcation Points ◽  
The Future ◽  
The Life Course

Life course psychology has taught us that people change and develop lifelong. Also, imagination plays an important role in the making of our life course, especially in transitions or bifurcation points. However, if imagination has been quite studied in children and adolescents, what about imagination in adulthood and, especially, in older adults? In this chapter, the authors present a model of imagination to be used in the life course. The authors review the literature on aging and identify the role of imagination within it. Finally, the authors discuss an extreme case of development, which comes about when the future seems interrupted because of a trauma. Through the case study of an older woman’s development after the Fuskushima catastrophe, the authors provide a general reflection about the role of imagination in the life of adults and elderly people.

A Dynamic Life-course Approach to Genocide

2017 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 107-119
Author(s):  
Hollie Nyseth Brehm ◽  
Christopher Uggen ◽  
Suzy McElrath
Keyword(s):  
Risk Factors ◽  
Life Course ◽  
Building Blocks ◽  
Political Conflict ◽  
Life Course Criminology ◽  
Life Course Approach ◽  
The Life Course

We argue in this article that the study of genocide would benefit from the application and use of theoretical tools that criminologists have long had at their disposal, specifically, conception and theorization surrounding the life course. Using the 1994 Genocide Against the Tutsi as a case study, we detail how the building blocks of life-course criminology can be effectively used in analyses of (1) risk factors for the onset of genocide, (2) trajectories and duration of genocidal violence, and (3) desistance from genocidal crime and transitions after genocide. We conclude by highlighting the conceptual gains for research on genocide and political conflict by briefly discussing the analytic implications for future genocide research.

scholarly journals Tracing lines in the lawscape: Registration/pilgrimage and the sacred/secular of law/space

2020 ◽  
Vol 68 (5) ◽  
pp. 917-931
Author(s):  
Jessica Smith
Keyword(s):  
Life Course ◽  
The State ◽  
Life Event ◽  
Legal Fiction ◽  
Legal Identity ◽  
The Life Course ◽  
Tourist Information

The aim of this article is to draw upon sacred/secular ‘journeying’ to explore the inherent movement invoked by the state’s documentation of the life course. In tracing this motion, the article follows two intersecting pathways – the literal travel of those who register a life event and the figurative ‘journeying’ of legal identity. The argument develops from a case study conducted at the Beaney House of Art & Knowledge (Canterbury, UK): a museum, gallery, library, cafe, community exhibition, tourist information point and registration hub. But rather than using the building as a frame, to follow more closely the activity of registrars and citizens, I locate imaginative potential in the Beaney’s ‘tessellating’ spaces. Accordingly, the spatial account which is developed is ‘fictive’ in its very nature and offers an implicit critique of a bureaucratic act of governance embedded with legal fiction. In doing so, the article contributes to critical work on registration which deploys the language of ‘journeying’ to outline the performative force of state documentation, and more broadly, to spatial approaches which illustrate patterns of movement within the ‘lawscape’. The article argues that the ‘journeying’ of registration represents a pilgrimage, whereby individuals are ‘called’ to bureaucratic space at the centre of their local sphere, and the certificates they take with them, much like the badges of medieval pilgrims, are ‘takeaway tokens’ of the state – documents which impress legal identities upon us.

Photographic Memory, Ageing and the Life Course

1994 ◽  
Vol 14 (4) ◽  
pp. 479-497 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrew Blaikie
Keyword(s):  
Life Course ◽  
Old Age ◽  
Individual Experience ◽  
Uncritical Acceptance ◽  
The Life Course

ABSTRACTAlthough photographs are frequently used to illustrate discussions about ageing they have not been assessed critically as gerontological sources. This paper argues that the pictorial record since the 1840s contains many problems and possibilities. A case study of Victorian Scotland indicates the methodological pitfalls of acknowledging images at face value. Uncritical acceptance of the assumptions of modernisation theory has underlain much of the received wisdom on ageing in former times. More generally, both academics and advocates in Postwar Britain have reworked stereotypes of old age to suit their own aims. Against this, the convergence of reminiscence and a willingness to develop more interactive approaches to understanding the life course allows photographs to provide a resource for interpreting the ageing self. Nevertheless, as the examples show, difficulties again arise as the ambiguity and malleability of images all too easily enables generalised fictions to shroud the diversity of individual experience.

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