From Legacies to Futures

The Lifeworlds of Older Adults in Europe

AvKatja Seidel,David Prendergast

Inbunden, Engelska, 2025

Del i serien Life Course, Culture and Aging: Global Transformations

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Beskrivning

Older adults want to exercise a sense of control over their relationships, structures and surroundings as they navigate the later life course. Through detailed ethnographic case studies, this book examines the dynamic lifeworlds of a hundred and seven community-dwelling older adults in Europe before and during the COVID-19 pandemic. It explores the importance of agency, the frictions between self-perceptions of age and outside impositions and the need to deconstruct old age as a homogenising category. These insights challenge simple narratives of older persons as social burdens by highlighting the complex roles they fill in family, neighbourhood and communities.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2025-04-01
Mått:152 x 229 x 15 mm
Vikt:448 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Life Course, Culture and Aging: Global Transformations
Antal sidor:216
Förlag:Berghahn Books
ISBN:9781805399513

Utforska kategorier

Antropologi inom Samhälle och politik
Sociologi inom Samhälle och politik
Sociala grupper och identitet inom Samhälle och politik

Mer om författaren

Katja Seidel is a Senior Lecturer at the Unit for Peace and Conflict Studies at the University of Innsbruck and co-Director of the ‘ethnocineca – International Documentary Film Festival’ in Vienna. She has conducted fieldwork in Argentina, Nicaragua, Ethiopia, Spain and Germany, and co-directed the Holocaust research project ‘A Letter to the Stars’ in Vienna.

Recensioner i media

“This a delightful kaleidoscope of countless aspects of growing old ... it is a unique book in the sense that it presents a rich collection of ‘vignettes’ of elderly people across Europe. It is something that I have not come across before in anthropology.” • Sjaak van der Geest, University of Amsterdam

Innehållsförteckning

AcknowledgementsForewordJay SokolovskyIntroduction: Ageing in a Time of CrisisChapter 1. Social Worlds: Living, Learning and LiaisingChapter 2. Moving through the WorldChapter 3. Working WorldsChapter 4. Financial Worlds: Spending and AffordingChapter 5. Informal Care Worlds: Providing CareChapter 6. Formal Care Worlds: Receiving CareChapter 7. Legacies and Future WorldsConclusion: Age, Agency and a SummaryEpilogueAppendix: Participant IndexReferencesIndex