Energizing the ordinary: Biographical work and the future in stroke recovery narratives |
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Authors: | Christopher A. Faircloth Maude Rittman Craig Boylstein Mary Ellen Young Marieke Van Puymbroeck |
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Affiliation: | a Research Health Scientist, Rehabilitation Outcomes Research Center (151), North Florida/South Georgia VAMC, 1601 SW Archer Road, Gainesville, FL 32608, USA;b Department of Rehabilitation Counseling, University of Florida, USA;c Department of Rehabilitation Science, University of Florida, USA |
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Abstract: | Historically, the life course has been constructed as an organized and linear temporal progression. This holds true in various disciplines from education, to psychology, to counseling. The foundation of a life unfolding through temporal categorizations is documented in textbooks and theories that straddle these disciplines as well as many others, including the sociology of health and illness, which has often conceptualized the illness experience as embedded in a recovery trajectory.Here, we take this to task. Using Gubrium and Holstein's [Sociol. Inq. 65 (1995) 207; Gubrium, J., & Holstein, J., (1997). The new language of qualitative method. New York: Oxford University Press] analytic vocabulary of biographical work, we analyze narratives of stroke survivors by emphasizing the ordinary resources used as discursive foundations for the narrative production of the future in illness. Ordinary resources focused on include God and spirituality, comorbidities, and activity and leisure. The discussion is embedded in overarching concerns with “healthy aging” in gerontology and geriatrics. |
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Keywords: | Chronic illness Narrative Stroke Life course |
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