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"It's not going to be like this is it?": Celebrating age festival 2008

Dolan, Josie

Authors

Josie Dolan



Abstract

Employing participant observation, the paper offers analysis of Bristol’s Festival of Age, 2008 and traces the ways in which participants are positioned within a configuration of nostalgic, regulatory regimes that position them as a) passive bodies b) docile bodies c) disabled bodies d) feminine bodies e) white and (working) classed bodies. The paper argues that participants resist the position of abjection through an overdetermined respectability that simultaneously reinstates the dynamics of class.

Citation

Dolan, J. (2008, December). "It's not going to be like this is it?": Celebrating age festival 2008. Paper presented at Crossing Cultures: Woman, Aging and Media AHRC International Conference, University of Gloucestershire, Cheltenham, UK

Presentation Conference Type Conference Paper (unpublished)
Conference Name Crossing Cultures: Woman, Aging and Media AHRC International Conference
Conference Location University of Gloucestershire, Cheltenham, UK
Start Date Dec 5, 2008
End Date Dec 5, 2008
Peer Reviewed Not Peer Reviewed
Keywords aging, women, festival, regulation
Public URL https://uwe-repository.worktribe.com/output/1006862


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