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Explicating Articulations

Intentions and Intonations in Researching the Voices of Retired Australians

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Youth/old age is one of the many binaries that structure human life, thereby positioning the first-named half of the semantic pair as socially desirable and positively valenced and the second-named half as deficient and negative, even deviant (Midgley, Tyler, Danaher, & Mander, 2011). This positioning is manifested in the routinely circulated stereotypes – certainly in many Western societies – of older people as being at risk and vulnerable and as needing protection from harm, as well as being less efficient and productive than their younger counterparts (Danaher, Cook, Danaher, Coombes, & Danaher, 2013); Galpin, 2010; Peri, Fanslow, Hand, & Parsons, 2009; Robinson, Gustafson, & Popovich, 2008).

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  1. Independent Scholar, Bundaberg, Australia

    Phyllida Coombes

  2. Independent Scholar, Yeppoon, Australia

    Geoff Danaher

  3. University of Southern Queensland, Toowoomba, Australia

    Patrick Alan Danaher

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  1. University of Southern Queensland, Australia

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  2. Sidra Medical and Research Center, Qatar

    Andy Davies

  3. University of Southern Queensland, Australia

    Mark E. Oliver

  4. University of Southern Queensland, Australia

    Patrick Alan Danaher

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Coombes, P., Danaher, G., Danaher, P.A. (2014). Explicating Articulations. In: Midgley, W., Davies, A., Oliver, M.E., Danaher, P.A. (eds) Echoes. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6209-491-8_6

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