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Continuing to Get Out of Line: reflections on ageing activism and moral agency
- Author:
- BARNES Marian
- Journal article citation:
- Ethics and Social Welfare, 12(3), 2018, pp.204-215.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
- Place of publication:
- Abingdon
Margaret Urban Walker’s essay ‘Getting out of line’ questions gendered assumptions about moral agency in old age and its assumed links to the concept of a ‘career self.’ In this article the author develops and applies her critique to consider what forms ageing activism might take. This focuses on recognising and remembering the value of connections with people and with struggles that may both pre-date and outlive the individual. The author suggests that there is a need to think of remembering as future as well as past oriented and as political as well as personal. In developing her argument she draws from experience of working with old people in initiatives focussed on achieving change in health and social care services, on accounts of feminist activists of different generations and on personal reflections of contacts that embody both awareness of different vulnerabilities and of shared struggles for change. (Edited publisher abstract)
Transforming practice with older people through an ethic of care
- Authors:
- WARD Lizzie, BARNES Marian
- Journal article citation:
- British Journal of Social Work, 46(4), 2016, pp.906-922.
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
This article explores the relevance of deliberative practices framed by feminist care ethics to social work practice with older people. It draws on two connected projects which brought together older people: practitioners and academics. The first was a participatory research project in which the significance of care to well-being in old age emerged. The second was a knowledge exchange project which generated learning resources for social care practice based on the research findings of the first project. The authors analyse selected transcripts of recordings from meetings of both projects to consider the ways that discussions about lived experiences and everyday lives demonstrate care through this dialogue. Using this analysis, the authors propose that care ethics can be useful in transforming relationships between older people and those working with them through the creation of hybrid spaces in which ‘care-full deliberation’ can happen. It is argued that such reflective spaces can enable transformative dialogue about care and its importance to older people and offer a counterbalance to the procedurally driven environments in which much social work practice takes place and can support practice more attuned to the circumstances and concerns of older people. (Edited publisher abstract)
Older people, well-being and participation: learning resources based on collaborative research
- Authors:
- BARNES Marian, GAHAGAN Beatrice, WARD Lizzie
- Publishers:
- University of Brighton, Age UK Brighton & Hove
- Publication year:
- 2013
- Pagination:
- 24
- Place of publication:
- Brighton
The handbook accompanies films made as part of an ESRC funded participatory research project on well-being in older age. The research was carried out by a team of older people, university researchers and a voluntary sector manager. The handbook provides detailed explanations of the issues explored through the acted scenarios. It also lists questions that can used to reflect more on these issues, and suggests where you can go for more information. (Edited publisher abstract)
An ethic of care and sibling care in older age
- Author:
- BARNES Marian
- Journal article citation:
- Families, Relationships and Societies, 1(1), 2012, pp.7-23.
- Publisher:
- Policy Press
- Place of publication:
- Bristol
Current feminist care ethics emphasises the relational nature of care which suggests the importance of understanding the different dynamics of care in different relational contexts. This article applies such a perspective to a small number of interviews with carers looking after siblings in older age. While some attention has been given to sibling care following the death of parents of people with learning difficulties and, to a lesser extent, those with enduring mental health problems, older sibling care can take place when siblings become ill, or when they have had close contact over a lifetime. Personal descriptions suggested that motivations to care are strongly embedded in family responsibility, but the precise meaning and consequences of this vary. Such relationships may not be more egalitarian than other familial caring relationships, although it was noted that caregiving brought older siblings closer together.