Othering the elderly: Autoethnography as counteractive methodological strategy
(2017)
Presentation / Conference
Franklin, A. (2017, October). Othering the elderly: Autoethnography as counteractive methodological strategy. Paper presented at Aging and Society, International Interdisciplinary Conference, Gdańsk, Poland
This paper will first establish that 'the elderly' are habitually othered in the texts that endeavour to describe 'them' and their 'needs'. It will then argue that an intersectional conceptualising of identity construction aids a researcher who is en... Read More about Othering the elderly: Autoethnography as counteractive methodological strategy.