In Search of Waves: A Life Course Analysis of the Mobile Lifestyle of Finnish Surfer-travellers

Young ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 110330882110091
Author(s):  
Mikko Piispa
Keyword(s):  
Life Course ◽  
Life Story ◽  
Life Course Perspective ◽  
Individual Agency ◽  
Life Story Interviews ◽  
Life Course Analysis

Surfing is often a mobile lifestyle, centred around the search for waves. This article analyses Finnish surfer-travellers through a life course perspective. The data consists of 20 thematic life story interviews, conducted in 2016–2017. Surfer-travellers are representative of highly mobile cosmopolitan youth. This analysis focuses on how they have engaged with surf-travelling, what networks and capital they have utilized in doing so, and how their active agency and choices have influenced their lifestyles. Through their individual agency, surfer-travellers organize their lives to prioritize their travels. For surfer-travellers, mobility is a goal in itself, and this leads to a life ‘lived differently’. The results are connected to wider discussions on lifestyle mobilities, youth mobilities, mobile transitions, and changing conceptions of adulthood.

Situating the life story narratives of aging immigrants within a structural context: the intersectional life course perspective as research praxis

2019 ◽  
Vol 20 (4) ◽  
pp. 465-484 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shari Brotman ◽  
Ilyan Ferrer ◽  
Sharon Koehn
Keyword(s):  
Life Course ◽  
Life Story ◽  
Methodological Approach ◽  
Later Life ◽  
Life Course Perspective ◽  
Older Immigrants ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
Canadian Provinces ◽  
Research Praxis ◽  
The Life Course

Research on racialized older immigrants does not fully acknowledge the interplay between the life course experiences of diverse populations and the structural conditions that shape these experiences. Our research team has developed the intersectional life course perspective to enhance researchers’ capacity to take account of the cumulative effects of structural discrimination as people experience it throughout the life course, the meanings that people attribute to those experiences, and the implications these have on later life. Here we propose an innovative methodological approach that combines life story narrative and photovoice methods in order to operationalize the intersectional life course. We piloted this approach in a study of the everyday stories of aging among diverse immigrant older adults in two distinct Canadian provinces with the goals of enhancing capacity to account for both context and story and engaging with participants and stakeholders from multiple sectors in order to influence change.

Suicide, Life Course, and Life Story

1995 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 199-219 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bertram J. Cohler ◽  
Michael J. Jenuwine
Keyword(s):  
Life Course ◽  
Life Story ◽  
Late Life ◽  
Later Life ◽  
Life Course Perspective ◽  
Psychological Autopsy ◽  
Life Course Approach ◽  
Life Threatening ◽  
Narrative Methodology ◽  
Off Time

This article explores how a life-course perspective and narrative methodology can be used to study risk factors for late-life suicide. A life-course approach to aging and suicide requires consideration of age as both social and personal construction. “On-” and “off-time” events and their impact on adjustmenta are used to illustrate these social and personal constructions. Cohort, period, and histrorical events have potentially profound effects on risk for suicide, yet the study of these effects is difficult because they are so often confounded in longitudinal study. Lifelong personality characteristics that are not life-threatening in earlier life may be of greater risk in later life depending on life circumstances such as physical dependencies. A life-story or narrative approach offers an alternative method for incorporating these complicated factors when studying late-life suicide. The psychological autopsy can be considered a type of “narrative” used by various individuals to gain understanding about a suicide.

scholarly journals A Life Course Perspective on Growing Older With Cerebral Palsy

2020 ◽  
pp. 104973232097124
Author(s):  
Amanda Carroll ◽  
Dara Chan ◽  
Deborah Thorpe ◽  
Ilana Levin ◽  
Nancy Bagatell
Keyword(s):  
Cerebral Palsy ◽  
Life Course ◽  
Health Care Services ◽  
Social Contexts ◽  
Life Course Perspective ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Individual Agency ◽  
Care Services ◽  
Children With Cerebral Palsy ◽  
The Life Course

Despite most children with cerebral palsy (CP) now living within typical life spans, little is known about how the effects of CP unfold across the life course and impact participation in everyday life during adulthood. In this study, we explored the experiences of 38 adults growing older with CP. Data were gathered using semi-structured interviews focused on participants’ engagement in activities in their community and analyzed using a life course perspective to deepen our understanding of the experiences of our participants. We found that individual agency, family and social contexts, as well as larger sociocultural contexts all shaped participants’ experiences as they grew older. The findings highlight the usefulness of the life course perspective for understanding how the effects of a diagnosis of CP unfold over time. Further use of this perspective can better inform health care services to meet the needs of adults with CP aging with a lifelong disability.

scholarly journals Significant career change to software development. A life-course perspective

2021 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Preoteasa Ana Maria
Keyword(s):  
Software Development ◽  
Life Course ◽  
Change Process ◽  
Qualitative Data ◽  
Career Change ◽  
Life Course Perspective ◽  
The Other ◽  
Individual Agency ◽  
Vocational Counselling ◽  
The Life Course

T The present study, based on qualitative data, investigates the significant career change through the life-course lens. Biographical interviews were conducted with people who changed their profession and the findings were characteristically reflective and subjective, foregrounding the participants’ interpretations of their layers of reality. Different type of resources: individual (Agency), community (Networking), and society (Labour market) were taken into account and the endeavour enabled to capture the triggers involved in career change process. The distinction between voluntary and involuntary career change decision helps to understand the reasons for which the change is chosen. There are major differences between those who leave involuntary their desired profession and those who discover that they have a calling for the software development. Moreover, the results advocate for the importance of early vocational counselling. On the other hand, evidence of discrimination encountered by new programmers could be addressed by HR departments in the IT organizations

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