Adult fantasy: searching for true maturity in an age of mortgages, marriages, and other adult milestones
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posted on 2017-01-01, 00:00 authored by Briohny DoyleAdult fantasy: searching for true maturity in an age of mortgages, marriages, and other adult milestones
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1925548201Research statement
Background Public debate around generational difference in Australia has proceeded by way of comparing economic and social status without in-depth consideration of changing political and social contexts. This has given rise to problematic arguments in the media and public discourse, which negatively characterize demographics, limiting points of convergence and empathy between age groups and thus stymieing opportunities for collective action and solidarity in the face of contemporary crisis. The researcher here seeks to address this limited conversation by asking: How does the division caused by generationalism contribute to social issues including housing affordability, employment, family structures, and climate crisis? Contribution This is a book of rigorously researched creative nonfiction including many interviews, surveys of language and agenda across media outlets as well as independent analysis of social and economic trends. The broad question as stated above is discussed in relation to the different markers of maturity identified now as opposed to the mid twentieth century. The book also looks at the extent to which neoliberalism has impacted identity, and interrelations in Australia and internationally. Significance A creative nonfiction contribution to this discussion is important in the way it can span, and bring together, the complex and wide-ranging forces at play in our experience of contemporary social issues. The researcher appeared at the Brisbane, Sydney and Melbourne writer’s festivals. She was interviewed on ABC and commercial radio and reviewed in The Guardian, ABC, The Monthly, The Saturday Paper, The Age and SMH. This book was shortlisted for the Melbourne Prize for Literature 2018.Publication classification
JO3 Original Creative Works – Textual WorkScale
NTRO MajorCopyright notice
2017, Briohny DoyleExtent
10Publisher
Scribe PublicationsPlace of publication
Brunswick, Vic.Usage metrics
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adulthoodattitudesAustraliamaturation169999 Studies In Human Society not elsewhere classified200299 Cultural Studies not elsewhere classified190402 Creative Writing (incl Playwriting)160104 Social and Cultural AnthropologySchool of Communication and Creative ArtsWriting and literature group4401 Anthropology4499 Other human society3602 Creative and professional writing
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