Hard lines : affect and aging in post-industrial place

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dc.contributor.advisorStewart, Kathleen, 1953-
dc.contributor.committeeMemberAli, Kamran
dc.contributor.committeeMemberAnderson, Ben
dc.contributor.committeeMemberHartigan, John
dc.creatorFarrell, Christopher H.
dc.date.accessioned2022-07-01T19:40:16Z
dc.date.available2022-07-01T19:40:16Z
dc.date.created2022-05
dc.date.issued2022-07-01
dc.date.submittedMay 2022
dc.date.updated2022-07-01T19:40:17Z
dc.description.abstractThe landscape of contemporary Britain is littered with towns and villages in various states of post-industrial decline and recovery: fishing villages reinvented as holiday destinations; old steel towns where the only reliable work to be found is in call centers; erstwhile potteries where you can buy an entire row of houses for a pound; and, of course, coal towns and pit villages that never recovered from Thatcherism. Outside of the major cities, these are the nation’s ordinary spaces. Through a tight ethnographic focus on a particular social world which exists at the margins of one such place – a bowls club in a former mining town in County Durham – this dissertation explores the affective experience of living amid the ordinary ruinousness of post-industrial Britain. Specifically, this dissertation is concerned with the way interactions with decaying space are shaped and mediated by aging bodies. This experience, I assert here, is characterized by ‘intensified attachments and cascading detachments’ – by deeply felt ambivalences. In attending to the expressed desires and small complaints of a group of (mostly) elderly men, this dissertation examines the uses and consequences – large and small; positive and negative; personal and political – of nostalgic discourse in this place, and elaborates a social world in which the past and its attachments are ever-present. What follows is an account of the messiness of post-industrial living and old age – the muddled affects and conflicting stories that result from a synchronous decline.
dc.description.departmentAnthropology
dc.format.mimetypeapplication/pdf
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/2152/114784
dc.identifier.urihttp://dx.doi.org/10.26153/tsw/41687
dc.language.isoen
dc.subjectAffect
dc.subjectAging
dc.subjectPost-industrial
dc.subjectBritain
dc.subjectEthnography
dc.subjectMobility
dc.subjectNostalgia
dc.subjectLawn bowling
dc.titleHard lines : affect and aging in post-industrial place
dc.typeThesis
dc.type.materialtext
thesis.degree.departmentAnthropology
thesis.degree.disciplineAnthropology
thesis.degree.grantorThe University of Texas at Austin
thesis.degree.levelDoctoral
thesis.degree.nameDoctor of Philosophy

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