(Im)mobile autobiography
The Mobilisation of Life Without Children Auto/Biography and Its Significance
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5717023 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Nicola Jane Spurling, Nicola Spurling (0000-0001-5749-1734, Lancaster University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2024 |
| Volume | 19 |
| Issue | 5 |
| Pages | 837-852 |
| Publication date | 2024-09-02 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Mobilities (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1745-0101 • E-ISSN: 1745-011X |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/17450101.2024.2347231 |
| OpenAlex | W4396830910 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 12 |
The paper contributes to the theme of the special issue by making auto/biography the focal point of analysis and theorising its potential to be mobile or immobile. The theoretical developments of the paper are grounded in a mobilisation of life-without-children auto/biographical non-fiction across the last 10–15 years, in which those who do not have children, whatever the reason, have opened-up about their stories and found ways to share them with one another. The paper explicates an original concept immobile autobiography defined as: ‘life narratives that are invisible and side-lined, essentialized or not told in first person, and whose circulation both within (intra) and between (inter) generations is structurally limited’; and its converse mobile autobiography. (Im)mobile auto/biographies include, but cannot be reduced to, digital and physical mobilities. The potential of the concept lies in its ability to consider how lives, and the stories told about them, evolve, circulate and perform transformation, as they intersect with, transgress and re-shape changing cultural climates of a mobile world
Art history · Biography · Sociology · Diaspora, migration, transnational identity · History · Psychology
| Citations per year | 0.5 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2024 - 2024 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |