Life history and the Irish immigrant experience in Post-War England

Redmond, Jennifer

doi:10.1080/13619462.2021.1968837

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“…Whilst a schoolgirl, Daisy’s options were curtailed by living in a village, but once working full-time in a nearby town and able to drive, she embraced opportunities to socialise and have sex with men. Daisy’s sexual encounters were sometimes ‘scary’ (Fenton & Tinkler, forthcoming), but she proudly asserts that she exploited youth opportunities for independence and sexual freedom.…”

Section: Living With Youth In Later Lifementioning

confidence: 99%

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

Tinkler¹,

Fenton

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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Section: Living With Youth In Later Lifementioning

confidence: 99%