Joanna Bornat
Biographic Data
| ID | 247422 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Joanna Bornat |
| GIVEN NAMES | Joanna |
| FAMILY NAME | Bornat |
| SIGNATURE | BORNAT J |
| AFFILIATIONS | The Open University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 34 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 97 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 31 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 3 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1977 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Ageing, Ritual and Social Change: Comparing the Secular and Religious in Eastern and Western Europe
Ageing, Ritual and Social Change: Comparing the Secular and Religious in Eastern and Western Europe
Ageing, Ritual and Social Change
Ageing, Ritual and Social Change: Comparing the Secular and Religious in Eastern and Western Europe
Secondary analysis in reflection: Some experiences of re-use from an oral history perspective
Reflection on recent developments in the re-use of archived interview data was initiated by drawing on the experience of working on two very different projects: ‘Overseas-trained doctors and the development of geriatric medicine’ and ‘The oldest generation’, one of the Timescapes projects. These two projects, run in parallel but independent of one another, were very different in focus, but both explored the practice of re-use. This article draws …
Remembering in Later Life: Generating Individual and Social Change
Both oral history and what has come to be known as “reminiscence work” acquired a public profile around the same time, during the 1970s and early 1980s, in Europe and North America. This article focuses on the importance of remembrance in later life. For oral history, remembering is seen as a means to an end. By contrast, reminiscence work fixes on the process, the social interactions and changes brought about by engaging in remembering. Reminisc…
Biographical Methods
The chapter reviews three different approaches to biographical methods, the biographical interpretive method, oral history and narrative analysis. Each is outlined in turn, looking at distinguishing characteristics. Each makes use of the interview to generate data and while each has unique strengths, the chapter concludes with a commitment to an oral history approach with its focus on the dynamics of the interview.
Working with different temporalities: Archived life history interviews and diaries
This paper explores the contrasts and complementarities of two different sets of archived data, life history interviews and diaries. Both are well-tried methods of data collection in the social sciences, but little attention has been given to ways of using them in combination. We begin with an outline of how we went about collecting data for archiving: recruiting 12 families, interviewing people aged 75 and over, and collecting diaries from other…
Revisiting the Archives: A case study from the history of geriatric medicine
Using two data sets in parallel, generated at different times by different researchers, the case is made for the re-use of archived qualitative data. Two sets of oral history interviews one, dating from 1990-1, with doctors and others who pioneered the development of the geriatric specialty in the early years of the National Health Service, the other, ESRC funded during 2007-9, with South Asian doctors who came to work in the UK and found work in…
Timescapes secondary analysis: Comparison, Context and Working Across Data Sets
The article illustrates some of the strategies we are developing in the secondary analysis of Timescapes data and seeks to draw some general lessons for qualitative data analysts. We focus on three different areas of work. Across all of these we examine the potential explanatory value of working with data in a comparative way, and engage with some challenges presented by contextual specificity in the way qualitative data are generated. In the fir…
Churchill's Children: The Evacuee Experience in Wartime Britain – By John Welshman
Geriatric medicine and the management of transitions into old age: The hospital bed as a site of spatial practice
Geographers and gerontologists have developed similar ways of viewing age-related transitions – resisting theories that attempt to fix age stages against a normatively constructed life course. However, in both these literatures the part that spatial practices play in determining transitions has been less well developed. This paper draws on recent theorising in geography and in gerontology to consider transitions, focusing on the hospital bed as a…
The co-marking of aged bodies and migrant bodies: Migrant workers' contribution to geriatric medicine in the UK
This article sits at the nexus between two bodies of work, gerontology and migration research, both of which have theorised the body as the locus of stigma. Gerontologists, while acknowledging the significance of perceptions of the ageing body for engagement and participation in society, have often evaded direct engagement with physical and medical understandings of older bodies. In parallel, research which focuses on migration, race and the body…
Negotiating Boundaries in the City: Migration, Ethnicity, and Gender in Britain
Perceptions and Presentations of Living with Everyday Risk in Later Life
In a context of neo-liberalism, individual responsibility for risk and the protection of individuals from risk has led to risk management and assessment becoming central to the practice of social work. Social workers' involvement with older people tends to occur in crisis situations, with the result that stereotypical understandings of the vulnerability of older people may be reinforced. Drawing on data from interviews and diaries, the article pr…
Difference and Distinction: Non-migrant and Migrant Networks
In recent years the role of social networks and of social capital in shaping migrants' lived experiences and, particularly, their employment opportunity has increasingly come to be recognized. However, very little of this research has adopted a relational understanding of the migrant experience, taking the influence of nonmigrants' own networks on migrants as an important factor in influencing their labour market outcomes. This article critiques …
Women’s History and Oral History: Developments and Debates
Women's history and oral history grew up together. Each developed from a commitment to reveal and reverse, to challenge and to contest what were perceived to be dominant discourses framed by gender and class. In this article the relationship between these two endeavours is explored. In reviewing changes over the last four decades the dilemma for women of being both subject and object in research is explored. The tension in this dilemma is discuss…
Oral History, Health and Welfare
Oral History, Health and Welfare discusses the significance of oral history to the history of the development of health and welfare provisions. It includes discussion on: * the end of the workhouse * professional education and training of midwives * HIV and Aids * birth control * the role of the community pharmacist * pioneers of geriatric medicine * oral history and the history of learning disability
Biographical methods and professional practice: An international perspective
The turn to biographical methods in social science is yielding a rich harvest of research outcomes and invigorating the relationship between policy and practice. This book uses a range of interpretive approaches to reveal the dynamics of service users' and professionals' individual experiences. It shows how biographical methods can improve theoretical understanding of professional practice, as well as enrich the learning and development of profes…
Biographical Methods and Professional Practice: An International Perspective
The turn to biographical methods in social science is invigorating the relationship between policy and practice. This book shows how biographical methods can improve theoretical understanding of professional practice, as well as enrich the development of professionals, and promote more meaningful practitioner–service user relationships
Qualitative Interviewing: Asking, Listening and Interpreting
The Turn to Biographical Methods in Social Science
A Biographical Turn in the Social Sciences? A British-European View
Biographical research is increasingly used for understanding current historical and cultural changes and for purposes of education, training, and policy development. This "biographizing" movement is part of a broader picture of shifting configurations of concerns, concepts, and methodologies. In 2000, the introduction to the authors' The Turn to Biographical Methods in Social Science attempted such a picture. The authors wanted to promote greater…
Reminiscence and oral history: Parallel universes or shared endeavour? 1
There is a common methodology to reminiscence and life review with older people and oral history, and yet very little common literature. The distinguishing characteristics of these approaches are described and three areas of work are featured: interrogation, partnership and ownership. The discussion draws on a case study drawn from research on family break-up and reconstitution, and on the performance of a play devised and performed by a group of…
Stepfamilies and older people: Evaluating the implications of family change for an ageing population
The changing nature of family life has become a major issue in contemporary Britain. Concerns that change will bring moral decline and social fragmentation are countered by a more optimistic view which focuses on a future of more equitable and flexible family ties. Research drawing on area-based data in Luton amongst older, middle-aged and younger people with experience of family change suggests that so far as inter-generational relations, caring…
A Biographical Turn in the Social Sciences? A British-European View
Biographical research is increasingly used for understanding current historical and cultural changes and for purposes of education, training, and policy development. This "biographizing" movement is part of a broader picture of shifting configurations of concerns, concepts, and methodologies. In 2000, the introduction to the authors' The Turn to Biographical Methods in Social Science attempted such a picture. The authors wanted to promote greater…
Timescapes secondary analysis: Comparison, Context and Working Across Data Sets
The article illustrates some of the strategies we are developing in the secondary analysis of Timescapes data and seeks to draw some general lessons for qualitative data analysts. We focus on three different areas of work. Across all of these we examine the potential explanatory value of working with data in a comparative way, and engage with some challenges presented by contextual specificity in the way qualitative data are generated. In the fir…
Difference and Distinction: Non-migrant and Migrant Networks
In recent years the role of social networks and of social capital in shaping migrants' lived experiences and, particularly, their employment opportunity has increasingly come to be recognized. However, very little of this research has adopted a relational understanding of the migrant experience, taking the influence of nonmigrants' own networks on migrants as an important factor in influencing their labour market outcomes. This article critiques …
Women’s History and Oral History: Developments and Debates
Women's history and oral history grew up together. Each developed from a commitment to reveal and reverse, to challenge and to contest what were perceived to be dominant discourses framed by gender and class. In this article the relationship between these two endeavours is explored. In reviewing changes over the last four decades the dilemma for women of being both subject and object in research is explored. The tension in this dilemma is discuss…
The co-marking of aged bodies and migrant bodies: Migrant workers' contribution to geriatric medicine in the UK
This article sits at the nexus between two bodies of work, gerontology and migration research, both of which have theorised the body as the locus of stigma. Gerontologists, while acknowledging the significance of perceptions of the ageing body for engagement and participation in society, have often evaded direct engagement with physical and medical understandings of older bodies. In parallel, research which focuses on migration, race and the body…
Reminiscence and oral history: Parallel universes or shared endeavour? 1
There is a common methodology to reminiscence and life review with older people and oral history, and yet very little common literature. The distinguishing characteristics of these approaches are described and three areas of work are featured: interrogation, partnership and ownership. The discussion draws on a case study drawn from research on family break-up and reconstitution, and on the performance of a play devised and performed by a group of…
Perceptions and Presentations of Living with Everyday Risk in Later Life
In a context of neo-liberalism, individual responsibility for risk and the protection of individuals from risk has led to risk management and assessment becoming central to the practice of social work. Social workers' involvement with older people tends to occur in crisis situations, with the result that stereotypical understandings of the vulnerability of older people may be reinforced. Drawing on data from interviews and diaries, the article pr…
Stepfamilies and older people: Evaluating the implications of family change for an ageing population
The changing nature of family life has become a major issue in contemporary Britain. Concerns that change will bring moral decline and social fragmentation are countered by a more optimistic view which focuses on a future of more equitable and flexible family ties. Research drawing on area-based data in Luton amongst older, middle-aged and younger people with experience of family change suggests that so far as inter-generational relations, caring…
Revisiting the Archives: A case study from the history of geriatric medicine
Using two data sets in parallel, generated at different times by different researchers, the case is made for the re-use of archived qualitative data. Two sets of oral history interviews one, dating from 1990-1, with doctors and others who pioneered the development of the geriatric specialty in the early years of the National Health Service, the other, ESRC funded during 2007-9, with South Asian doctors who came to work in the UK and found work in…
Working with different temporalities: Archived life history interviews and diaries
This paper explores the contrasts and complementarities of two different sets of archived data, life history interviews and diaries. Both are well-tried methods of data collection in the social sciences, but little attention has been given to ways of using them in combination. We begin with an outline of how we went about collecting data for archiving: recruiting 12 families, interviewing people aged 75 and over, and collecting diaries from other…
Geriatric medicine and the management of transitions into old age: The hospital bed as a site of spatial practice
Geographers and gerontologists have developed similar ways of viewing age-related transitions – resisting theories that attempt to fix age stages against a normatively constructed life course. However, in both these literatures the part that spatial practices play in determining transitions has been less well developed. This paper draws on recent theorising in geography and in gerontology to consider transitions, focusing on the hospital bed as a…
Exploring Living Memory – The Uses of Reminiscence
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Work, Race and Immigration
Secondary analysis in reflection: Some experiences of re-use from an oral history perspective
Reflection on recent developments in the re-use of archived interview data was initiated by drawing on the experience of working on two very different projects: ‘Overseas-trained doctors and the development of geriatric medicine’ and ‘The oldest generation’, one of the Timescapes projects. These two projects, run in parallel but independent of one another, were very different in focus, but both explored the practice of re-use. This article draws …
Women's History/Oral History Conference, 12–13 February 1977
WOMEN'S HISTORY/ORAL HISTORY CONFERENCE, 12–13 February 1977 Get access Joanna Bornat Joanna Bornat Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar History Workshop Journal, Volume 4, Issue 1, AUTUMN 1977, Pages 234–235, https://doi.org/10.1093/hwj/4.1.234 Published: 01 October 1977
Work, Race and Immigration
Exploring Living Memory – The Uses of Reminiscence
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Education
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Education
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Two Oral Histories: Valuing Our Differences
In this quotation from The Voice of the Past Paul Thompson draws attention to important differences in approach and practice in oral history, but suggests that these are members of the same family. In this paper, which considers the development of oral history in the British Isles over the last twenty years, I examine these differences through an exploration of meanings of community. Let me begin by drawing a distinction between two forms of oral…
Community Care: A Reader
Introduction - COMMUNITY - Introduction - Anthology: The Breadth of Community C.Pereira - Representations of Community J.Bornat - Women and Community F.Williams - A Women's Health Group in Mansfield J.Finch - Neighbourhood Care and Social Policy: Extracts R.Snaith - Neighbours S.Croft & P.Beresford - Two Views of Community Service: Reflections of a Voluntary Worker M.Simey - Community as Service E.& S.Yeo - CARE - Introduction - An Anthology: Car…
Representations of Community
Stepfamilies and older people: Evaluating the implications of family change for an ageing population
The changing nature of family life has become a major issue in contemporary Britain. Concerns that change will bring moral decline and social fragmentation are countered by a more optimistic view which focuses on a future of more equitable and flexible family ties. Research drawing on area-based data in Luton amongst older, middle-aged and younger people with experience of family change suggests that so far as inter-generational relations, caring…
Reminiscence and oral history: Parallel universes or shared endeavour? 1
There is a common methodology to reminiscence and life review with older people and oral history, and yet very little common literature. The distinguishing characteristics of these approaches are described and three areas of work are featured: interrogation, partnership and ownership. The discussion draws on a case study drawn from research on family break-up and reconstitution, and on the performance of a play devised and performed by a group of…
Qualitative Interviewing: Asking, Listening and Interpreting
The Turn to Biographical Methods in Social Science
A Biographical Turn in the Social Sciences? A British-European View
Biographical research is increasingly used for understanding current historical and cultural changes and for purposes of education, training, and policy development. This "biographizing" movement is part of a broader picture of shifting configurations of concerns, concepts, and methodologies. In 2000, the introduction to the authors' The Turn to Biographical Methods in Social Science attempted such a picture. The authors wanted to promote greater…
Biographical methods and professional practice: An international perspective
The turn to biographical methods in social science is yielding a rich harvest of research outcomes and invigorating the relationship between policy and practice. This book uses a range of interpretive approaches to reveal the dynamics of service users' and professionals' individual experiences. It shows how biographical methods can improve theoretical understanding of professional practice, as well as enrich the learning and development of profes…
Biographical Methods and Professional Practice: An International Perspective
The turn to biographical methods in social science is invigorating the relationship between policy and practice. This book shows how biographical methods can improve theoretical understanding of professional practice, as well as enrich the development of professionals, and promote more meaningful practitioner–service user relationships
Oral History, Health and Welfare
Oral History, Health and Welfare discusses the significance of oral history to the history of the development of health and welfare provisions. It includes discussion on: * the end of the workhouse * professional education and training of midwives * HIV and Aids * birth control * the role of the community pharmacist * pioneers of geriatric medicine * oral history and the history of learning disability
Women’s History and Oral History: Developments and Debates
Women's history and oral history grew up together. Each developed from a commitment to reveal and reverse, to challenge and to contest what were perceived to be dominant discourses framed by gender and class. In this article the relationship between these two endeavours is explored. In reviewing changes over the last four decades the dilemma for women of being both subject and object in research is explored. The tension in this dilemma is discuss…
Negotiating Boundaries in the City: Migration, Ethnicity, and Gender in Britain
Perceptions and Presentations of Living with Everyday Risk in Later Life
In a context of neo-liberalism, individual responsibility for risk and the protection of individuals from risk has led to risk management and assessment becoming central to the practice of social work. Social workers' involvement with older people tends to occur in crisis situations, with the result that stereotypical understandings of the vulnerability of older people may be reinforced. Drawing on data from interviews and diaries, the article pr…
Difference and Distinction: Non-migrant and Migrant Networks
In recent years the role of social networks and of social capital in shaping migrants' lived experiences and, particularly, their employment opportunity has increasingly come to be recognized. However, very little of this research has adopted a relational understanding of the migrant experience, taking the influence of nonmigrants' own networks on migrants as an important factor in influencing their labour market outcomes. This article critiques …
Churchill's Children: The Evacuee Experience in Wartime Britain – By John Welshman
Geriatric medicine and the management of transitions into old age: The hospital bed as a site of spatial practice
Geographers and gerontologists have developed similar ways of viewing age-related transitions – resisting theories that attempt to fix age stages against a normatively constructed life course. However, in both these literatures the part that spatial practices play in determining transitions has been less well developed. This paper draws on recent theorising in geography and in gerontology to consider transitions, focusing on the hospital bed as a…
The co-marking of aged bodies and migrant bodies: Migrant workers' contribution to geriatric medicine in the UK
This article sits at the nexus between two bodies of work, gerontology and migration research, both of which have theorised the body as the locus of stigma. Gerontologists, while acknowledging the significance of perceptions of the ageing body for engagement and participation in society, have often evaded direct engagement with physical and medical understandings of older bodies. In parallel, research which focuses on migration, race and the body…
Remembering in Later Life: Generating Individual and Social Change
Both oral history and what has come to be known as “reminiscence work” acquired a public profile around the same time, during the 1970s and early 1980s, in Europe and North America. This article focuses on the importance of remembrance in later life. For oral history, remembering is seen as a means to an end. By contrast, reminiscence work fixes on the process, the social interactions and changes brought about by engaging in remembering. Reminisc…
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