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Ageing, Narrative and Identity New Qualitative Social Research /

This book outlines the methodology and results of the Fiction and the Cultural Mediation of Ageing Project, led by a research team from Brunel University, UK. It investigates how older people resist stereotypical cultural representations of ageing and demonstrates the importance of narrative underst...

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Main Authors: Hubble, N. (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut), Tew, P. (http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Language:English
Published: London : Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013.
Edition:1st ed. 2013.
Subjects:
Welfare state.
Childhood.
Adolescence.
Culture—Study and teaching.
Literature, Modern—20th century.
Social policy.
Aging.
Politics of the Welfare State.
Childhood, Adolescence and Society.
Cultural and Media Studies, general.
Twentieth-Century Literature.
Social Policy.
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230390942
Summary:This book outlines the methodology and results of the Fiction and the Cultural Mediation of Ageing Project, led by a research team from Brunel University, UK. It investigates how older people resist stereotypical cultural representations of ageing and demonstrates the importance of narrative understanding to social agency.
Physical Description:IX, 221 p. online resource.
ISBN:9780230390942

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