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From Legacies to Futures: The Lifeworlds of Older Adults in Europe(11 Life Course, Culture and Aging: Global Transformations)

From Legacies to Futures: The Lifeworlds of Older Adults in Europe(11 Life Course, Culture and Aging: Global Transformations)


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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.

Table of Contents:
Acknowledgements Foreword Jay Sokolovsky Introduction: Ageing in a Time of Crisis Chapter 1. Social Worlds: Living, Learning and Liaising Chapter 2. Moving through the World Chapter 3. Working Worlds Chapter 4. Financial Worlds: Spending and Affording Chapter 5. Informal Care Worlds: Providing Care Chapter 6. Formal Care Worlds: Receiving Care Chapter 7. Legacies and Future Worlds Conclusion: Age, Agency and a Summary Epilogue Appendix: Participant Index References Index

About the Author :
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.

Review :
“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


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781805399506
  • Publisher: Berghahn Books
  • Publisher Imprint: Berghahn Books
  • Language: English
  • Series Title: 11 Life Course, Culture and Aging: Global Transformations
  • ISBN-10: 1805399500
  • Publisher Date: 01 Apr 2025
  • Binding: Digital download and online
  • No of Pages: 216
  • Sub Title: The Lifeworlds of Older Adults in Europe


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