Childhoods Across the Generations

Brannen, Julia

doi:10.1177/0907568204047104

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“…While this sounds like an intentional, cognitive process, it is generally not so. Narrative structures help to organise the interpretations that an audience as well as the teller imposes on the events, persons and places that constitute what is told (Brannen, 2004;Phoenix and Brannen, 2014). In that context, what Lizzie says she remembers and cannot remember and how she narrates memories of the Caribbean and compares them with memories of the UK and family life as she encountered them helps to illuminate the impact she considered serial migration to have had on her.…”

Section: Reconstructed Memories Of Leaving the Caribbean And Coming T...mentioning

confidence: 99%

Making diversity visible in often unrecognised family practices

Phoenix¹

2023

Families, Relationships and Societies

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This article makes a small contribution to Families, Relationships and Societies’ knowledge production. It addresses racialised and ethnicised inequalities experienced in the everyday lives of a family constituted through serial migration, where the adult interviewed (‘Lizzie’) reflected on her childhood experience of leaving the Caribbean to join parents she did not remember and siblings she had never met. It reuses material from a larger study of the retrospective narratives of adults who had been childhood serial migrants. A major finding is that Lizzie’s experience of serial migration was intersectional, linked to her social positioning and her experiences of racism at school and felt outsiderness at home in contrast to feelings of belonging and being valued at the Black-led church she attended. The article argues that, while such family experiences are frequently unrecognised, they pattern children’s experiences, their adult relationships and identities and contribute to, and arise from, historical and sociostructural constructions of society.

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Section: Reconstructed Memories Of Leaving the Caribbean And Coming T...mentioning

confidence: 99%

Making diversity visible in often unrecognised family practices

Phoenix¹

2023

Families, Relationships and Societies

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“…What remains undeveloped, however, is attention to childhood and youth in terms of what has been, that is, a past orientation. There have been attempts to embrace 'having been' as part of the experience of childhood (Cross, 2011;Kingdon, 2018) and to explore how adults remember and narrate their childhoods (Brannen, 2004). In youth studies, Wood (2017Wood ( , p. 1183) critiques a preoccupation with 'linear, normative and teleological conceptions of time ' and, building on Ingold (2007), outlines ways to engage with the temporal complexities of youth.…”

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Introducing ‘resonance’: Revisioning the relationship between youth and later life in women born 1939–52

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Cruz

2022

The Sociological Review

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This article proposes ‘resonance’ as a fruitful way of conceptualising the relationship between youth and later life and reflecting on its significance: resonance is how a person’s ‘youth’ is lived with in the present of their later life. Resonance revisions youth, engaging with the complexity of its presence in the lifecourse. Relinquishing a preoccupation with continuity and linearity, youth seen from the vantage point of later life contributes fresh insights into what matters for people and how. This conceptualisation emerged from a qualitative study of women born 1939–52 which revealed that experiences attributed to the teens and early twenties have a presence in a person’s later life in ways unrecognised in established approaches, namely longitudinal life-course studies and socio-cultural approaches. These resonances are often historically inflected such that some cohorts may live with their youth in later life in ways that distinguish them from their predecessors and successors.

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“…30 I share Brannen's view that making sense of memories of childhood is both a theoretical and a methodological challenge. 31 In order to contextualise the narratives, it is necessary to 'fill in what is unsaid' by drawing on conceptual and empirical knowledge about the structural and historical context for what is being described, and also to pay attention to how the memories are framed by individual, generational and historical time. As Jane Humphries noted, memories of childhood can be truthful, without being entirely accurate or representative.…”

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The circulation of children in rural Ireland during the first half of the twentieth century

Gray

2014

Cont. Change

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This paper analyses the interactions amongst family, household and extended kin through an examination of t o circulations of children within rural Irish communities during the first half of the twentieth century: (1) the daily journey from home to school; (2) going to live with relatives other than parents. Drawing on life-history narratives, the article develops a new perspective on the stemfamily system in Ireland by showing how i co plete family households formed integral parts of local kinship circles a d ere deeply e gaged i the e eryday li es of co plete fa ily households, including the promotion of extended family survival and social mobility. The analysis shows how the circulations of children between households -on a daily basis and at different stages of the life course -contributed to the reproduction, and sometimes disruption, of community, kinship and class relationships. It shifts our focus away from the rules and structures emphasized within the literature on inheritance and household formation towards the everyday practices associated with enacting family and kinship processes in particular historical contexts. From this child s eye perspective we gain a new understanding of the landscape of family and community life in early to mid-twentieth century Ireland. We see how households were embedded in overlapping sets of kinship and community relationships that were precarious, in the sense that they had to be actively maintained, and were subject to disruption and change. We see also ho i co plete or failed family households formed integral parts of local kinship circles, and were deeply engaged in the everyday li es of co plete fa ily households, including the promotion of family survival and social mobility. Finally, the analysis shows the pervasiveness of multiple forms of inequality in rural communities, cross-cutting household, and neighbour and kinship ties.The article begins with a brief overview of the existing research on kinship, family and community in early twentieth century rural Ireland, placing it in the context of contemporary international scholarship, followed by a detailed discussion of the data on which the empirical analysis is based. The subsequent sections examine two different circulations of children and adolescents within the rural community. First, the everyday circulation of children from home to school demonstrates childre s roles i rei forci g -and sometimes threatening -kinship and neighbour relationships amongst households. Stories of the journey to and from school also provide an opportunity to discuss and address some of the challenges associated with using narrative life story data. Second, I examine accounts of children being sent to live with relatives in households other than their natal home. I argue that this circulation of children and adolescents formed part of a set of flexible, adaptive practices oriented towards preserving and supporting extended family groups, and in some cases towards improving family status by facilitating upward social mobili...

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Childhoods Across the Generations

Cited by 24 publications

References 11 publications

Making diversity visible in often unrecognised family practices

Making diversity visible in often unrecognised family practices

Introducing ‘resonance’: Revisioning the relationship between youth and later life in women born 1939–52

The circulation of children in rural Ireland during the first half of the twentieth century

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