The Wireless Set: Navigating Vulnerability and Resilience in environments of globalisation

Abstract

Both islands and the ageing experience are often understood in relation to globalisation processes. This project acknowledges ageing islanders as having an acute embodied experience of the - often-disembodied - way in which environment is dominantly conceptualised under globalisation. It thus seeks to understand Scotland’s non-linked isles’ experience of care provision under a national service, based on dynamics surrounding the perceptions of environment. Recentring the experience of elderly islanders also promises to offer reflection on the very nature of globalised environments.