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My Room With a World View: Aging and the Paradoxes of Covid 19

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The challenge of autoethnography is using my personal experience to explore broader social and political themes and to find a subjective voice to make sense of the impact of the… Click to show full abstract

The challenge of autoethnography is using my personal experience to explore broader social and political themes and to find a subjective voice to make sense of the impact of the Covid 19 lockdown. Using the optic of aging, I explore how I accommodated to quarantine life. Sitting and letting the world swirl around me in my house, I explore the altered physical and mental spaces in which I lived. Despite my own privileges, I have felt vulnerable and frightened but I have also felt angry and frustrated at the hubris and incompetence with which this crisis has been handled.

Keywords: paradoxes covid; view aging; world view; world; room world; aging paradoxes

Journal Title: Qualitative Inquiry
Year Published: 2020

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