TY - CHAP
T1 - Collective memory work with older men
T2 - Ageing, gender politics and masculinities
AU - Blake, Vic
AU - Hearn, Jeff
AU - Jackson, David
AU - Barber, Randy
AU - Johnson, Richard
AU - Luczynski, Zbyszek
PY - 2021
Y1 - 2021
N2 - Over a thirteen-year period, between 2002 and 2015, we were part of what we now call the Older Men’s Memory Work Group (hereafter the group). During our final three years together, we also collaboratively produced and edited a collective book, Men’s Stories for a Change: Ageing Men Remember (Barber et al., 2016; also Blake et al., 2016, 2018) – though it should be said, at the outset, that this was not at all part of our initial agenda, with the idea only emerging late in the process. Memory work is work on memories, usually though not necessarily collective, and usually also focused on and about some agreed issue(s) of concern. In our case, these memories were about the making and unmaking of older men and masculinities through age, ageing, gender, gendering, and other intersections. Indeed, from the very beginning the group was part of a personal-political project of changing older men and masculinities against patriarchal and sexist ways and relations, and towards feminist and profeminist ways and relations. Here, in this contribution, we first describe the practicalities and the process of our memory work before placing the method itself in its broader framework, and considering its potential for working with older people, and specifically with older men, and with certain implications for practice.
AB - Over a thirteen-year period, between 2002 and 2015, we were part of what we now call the Older Men’s Memory Work Group (hereafter the group). During our final three years together, we also collaboratively produced and edited a collective book, Men’s Stories for a Change: Ageing Men Remember (Barber et al., 2016; also Blake et al., 2016, 2018) – though it should be said, at the outset, that this was not at all part of our initial agenda, with the idea only emerging late in the process. Memory work is work on memories, usually though not necessarily collective, and usually also focused on and about some agreed issue(s) of concern. In our case, these memories were about the making and unmaking of older men and masculinities through age, ageing, gender, gendering, and other intersections. Indeed, from the very beginning the group was part of a personal-political project of changing older men and masculinities against patriarchal and sexist ways and relations, and towards feminist and profeminist ways and relations. Here, in this contribution, we first describe the practicalities and the process of our memory work before placing the method itself in its broader framework, and considering its potential for working with older people, and specifically with older men, and with certain implications for practice.
KW - Social policy
KW - Memory
KW - Memory work
KW - Ageing
KW - Men
KW - Masculinities
KW - Gender
UR - http://collectivememorywork.net/?page_id=93%3B+https%3A%2F%2Fcollectivememorywork.net%2Fwp%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2021%2F10%2FReader-Collective-Memory-Work-ebook.pdf
M3 - Chapter
SP - 327
EP - 352
BT - Reader Collective Memory-Work
A2 - Hamm, Robert
PB - Beltra Books
ER -