Ageing, Narrative and Identity: New Qualitative Social Research

By Nick Hubble, Philip Tew, N Hubble

Book Overview

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.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0230390935
• ISBN13: 9780230390935
• Release Date: September 2013
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 221 Pages
• Weight: 0.98 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.6" x 8.9"