scholarly journals Maskulina läspraktiker genom tid och rum

2020 ◽  
pp. 33-59
Author(s):  
Stig-Börje Asplund ◽  
Birgitta Ljung Egeland
Keyword(s):  
Working Class ◽  
Rural Areas ◽  
Life Story ◽  
Significant Feature ◽  
Reading Practices ◽  
Reading Practice ◽  
Distinctive Features ◽  
Cultural Contexts ◽  
Life Story Interviews ◽  
Literacy Research

The interaction between the local place and reading practice is continuously emphasized in literacy research. Nevertheless, the significance of place has been neglected in research on working-class men’s relationship to reading. This study responds to this gap by examining working-class men from rural areas and their relationship to reading across a life span. Through life-story interviews with two working-class men in their 60s, living in the same rural woodland municipality, the article contributes to the understanding of the importance of reading in these men’s lives, and how their reader histories interact with distinctive features of the locality. The study shows that the men’s individual reader histories have been shaped by, and have shaped, the specific local and cultural contexts and surrounding discourses. Through their reading practices throughout their life courses, the men (re)construct rural working-class identities in which hunting, fishing, sports and cars constitute significant elements. However, other movements in the men’s reading practices related to place through which the men can pursue alternative masculine positions are also present. The study highlights the importance for educators to pay attention to place as a significant feature in understanding working-class males’ reading practices.

The workshop and working-class writing

2018 ◽  
pp. 94-110
Author(s):  
Tom Woodin
Keyword(s):  
Short Stories ◽  
Working Class ◽  
Life Story ◽  
Social Experience ◽  
Bearing Witness ◽  
Distinctive Features ◽  
Individual Life ◽  
The Individual

The writing produced in workshops explored varied forms of expression including autobiography, short stories, dialect, drama, poetry and novels. Overall there were significant debates about the nature and meaning of working class writing and whether it had any distinctive features. Divisions between forms of writing were actively challenged and new forms of subjectivity and ways of representing experience were developed. However, there were also pressures to write within existing forms. New modes of expression could become tiring after a time when different approaches were required. Overall writing in the Fed was marked by the creative interpretation of experience and vernacular voice. It reveals tensions between bearing witness and creative interpretation and between representing a collective social experience and the individual life story.

Struggle for Inclusion

2016 ◽  
pp. 282-295
Author(s):  
Ambreen Shahriar
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Social Problems ◽  
Life Story ◽  
Symbolic Violence ◽  
The Social ◽  
Life Story Interviews ◽  
At Home

The chapter explores the struggle for inclusion at home and society faced by four young people when they quit the religion they inherited from their parents. Using life-story interviews, it discusses reactions of their families about their decision to quit religion. Furthermore, the chapter sheds light on the ways these young individuals coped with the social problems that they faced after they made a difficult, socially unacceptable choice of switching from their inherited religion. The promotion of symbolic violence in the field and its use by the agents around the participants of this study is discussed through Bourdieu's concepts of habitus and field. The chapter aims to understand and highlight the dilemma faced by the participants due to their decision of conversion in a society which is still not ready for this.

What oral historians and historians of science can learn from each other

2019 ◽  
Vol 52 (4) ◽  
pp. 673-688 ◽  
Author(s):  
PAUL MERCHANT
Keyword(s):  
Oral History ◽  
Critical Analysis ◽  
Life Stories ◽  
Life Story ◽  
The Other ◽  
British Library ◽  
National Life ◽  
Life Story Interviews ◽  
The One ◽  
The Way

AbstractThis paper is concerned with the use of interviews with scientists by members of two disciplinary communities: oral historians and historians of science. It examines the disparity between the way in which historians of science approach autobiographies and biographies of scientists on the one hand, and the way in which they approach interviews with scientists on the other. It also examines the tension in the work of oral historians between a long-standing ambition to record forms of past experience and more recent concerns with narrative and personal ‘composure’. Drawing on extended life story interviews with scientists, recorded by National Life Stories at the British Library between 2011 and 2016, it points to two ways in which the communities might learn from each other. First, engagement with certain theoretical innovations in the discipline of oral history from the 1980s might encourage historians of science to extend their already well-developed critical analysis of written autobiography and biography to interviews with scientists. Second, the keen interest of historians of science in using interviews to reconstruct details of past events and experience might encourage oral historians to continue to value this use of oral history even after their theoretical turn.

scholarly journals The Linkage Between Aging, Migration, and Resilience: Resilience in the Life of Older Turkish and Moroccan Immigrants

2019 ◽  
Vol 75 (5) ◽  
pp. 1113-1123 ◽  
Author(s):  
Silvia S Klokgieters ◽  
Theo G van Tilburg ◽  
Dorly J H Deeg ◽  
Martijn Huisman
Keyword(s):  
The Netherlands ◽  
Life Story ◽  
Country Of Origin ◽  
Community Networks ◽  
Life Stages ◽  
Host Society ◽  
Access To Resources ◽  
Older Immigrants ◽  
Life Conditions ◽  
Life Story Interviews

Abstract Objectives Older immigrants are affected by an accumulation of adversities related to migration and aging. This study investigates resilience in older immigrants by examining the resources they use to deal with these adversities in the course of their lives. Methods Data from 23 life-story interviews with Turkish and Moroccan immigrants aged 60–69 years living in the Netherlands. Results The circumstances under which individuals foster resilience coincide with four postmigration life stages: settling into the host society, maintaining settlement, restructuring life postretirement, and increasing dependency. Resources that promote resilience include education in the country of origin, dealing with language barriers, having two incomes, making life meaningful, strong social and community networks, and the ability to sustain a transnational lifestyle traveling back and forth to the country of origin. More resilient individuals invest in actively improving their life conditions and are good at accepting conditions that cannot be changed. Discussion The study illustrates a link between conditions across life stages, migration, and resilience. Resilient immigrants are better able to accumulate financial and social and other resources across life stages, whereas less resilient immigrants lose access to resources in different life stages.

The role of grandparents when parents part or die: some reflections on the mythical decline of the extended family

1999 ◽  
Vol 19 (4) ◽  
pp. 471-503 ◽  
Author(s):  
PAUL THOMPSON
Keyword(s):  
Social Mobility ◽  
Life Story ◽  
Extended Family ◽  
Emotional Closeness ◽  
The Family ◽  
Sources Of Support ◽  
Generational Study ◽  
Life Story Interviews ◽  
Statistical Trends

Belief that the extended family is in terminal decline has proved to be a remarkably persistent myth. It is currently being revived as a result of recent statistical trends. The belief has been closely connected to sociological enquiries undertaken over the course of the century. The validity of the belief, and in particular the significance of grandparents within the extended family, is explored in two sets of life story interviews recently undertaken with adults in Britain; one set are people in their thirties who had become step-children, and the second set participants in a multi-generational study of social mobility. The analysis addresses questions of contact after parental loss, sources of support within the family, the involvement of grandparents, the importance of co-residence, conflict, emotional closeness and communication within a family.

Approaching life story interviews as sites of interaction

2019 ◽  
Vol 20 (2) ◽  
pp. 175-187
Author(s):  
Stig-Börje Asplund ◽  
Héctor Pérez Prieto
Keyword(s):  
Conversation Analysis ◽  
Social Action ◽  
Life Story ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
Analysis Methodology ◽  
Interview Research ◽  
Life Story Interview ◽  
The Face ◽  
Life Story Interviews

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explore what conversation analysis has to offer when analysing a series of life story interviews aiming to capture how reading and texts are used in a rural working-class man’s identity construction. Design/methodology/approach The conversation analysis methodology with its explicit focus on embodied social action, activity and conduct in interaction is integrated with a life story approach when analysing and describing the identity constructing processes that take place in life story interview settings. Findings Through a close and detailed analysis of the interaction between interviewer and interviewee, and by focusing and highlighting the phenomena and identities that are oriented to in the face-to-face interaction here and now (and in relation to there and then), descriptions of the complex and dynamic identity constructing processes that are set into play in the life story interview are possible. Research limitations/implications It is argued that the approach has a lot to offer when approaching life story data, and thus is a method that can increase the transparency in life story interview research. Originality/value The paper explores the intersection of what is often seen as diametrically opposed forms of analysis: conversation analysis and narrative inquiry.

scholarly journals Inner change and sustainability initiatives: exploring the narratives from eco-villagers through a place-based transformative learning approach

2020 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
pp. 395-409 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. R. Pisters ◽  
H. Vihinen ◽  
E. Figueiredo
Keyword(s):  
Transformative Learning ◽  
Narrative Inquiry ◽  
Life Story ◽  
Analytical Framework ◽  
Intentional Communities ◽  
Learning Approach ◽  
Fourth Dimension ◽  
Empirical Results ◽  
Sustainability Initiatives ◽  
Life Story Interviews

AbstractIn an earlier work, we suggested that connection, compassion and creativity could be used as key analytical dimensions of transformative place-based learning (Pisters et al. in Emot Sp Soc 34(8):100578, 2019). This analytical framework was created to study processes of place-based transformative learning which evoke shifts in our consciousness. This inner change might well be critical in the development of regenerative practices and places. This article aims to critically investigate the framework empirically using life-story interviews with people living in three different ecovillages. Ecovillages are so-called intentional communities which aim to develop sustainable, regenerative ways of living. Methodologically, the research is grounded in an ethnography and narrative inquiry. Following the empirical results, we will reflect on the merits and shortcomings of the analytical framework. The article concludes that the framework proved useful for its purpose if it includes a fourth dimension of 'transgression' and portraits the dimensions as continua.

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