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Gay and Pleasant Land?
— exploring sexuality, ageing and rurality in a multi-method, performative project | | Author(s) | Lee-Ann Fenge, Kip Jones |
| Journal title | British Journal of Social Work, vol 42, no 2, March 2012 |
| Pages | pp 300-317 |
| Source | http://bjsw.oxfordjournals.org |
| Keywords | Gay men ; Lesbians ; Ageing process ; Social inclusion ; Rural areas ; Projects ; Research ; South West England ; Wales. |
| Annotation | Little is known about the experience of living in a rural community as an older lesbian or gay man. This paper considers how issues such as social exclusion and discrimination may impact upon older lesbians and gay men living in rural communities. It presents a discussion of a research project that is taking place as one part of the New Dynamics of Ageing Programme. The Gay and Pleasant Land? project is a multi-method project aiming to explore sexuality, ageing and rurality in the south-west of England and Wales. This paper considers the challenges of attempting to elicit the views and experiences of marginalised groups of older people using a range of different methods. The methods used in the project include visual ethnography, focus groups and interviews using the Biographic Narrative Interpretive Method (BNIM). The findings of the project are being used in the development and production of a short, professionally made film. It is envisaged that this film will be used as a dissemination tool. Performative Social Science methods and its philosophical grounding in Relational Aesthetics have formed the bedrock of the project and are fundamental to its participatory approach. Implications for research with marginalised groups in rural communities are discussed, alongside a consideration of multi-methods and the use of tools from within social work research. (JL). |
| Accession Number | CPA-120824002 A |
| Classmark | ES6DA: ES6DB: BG: RNA: RL: 3E: 3A: 82Y: 9 |
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