From Legacies to Futures

The Lifeworlds of Older Adults in Europe

von A. Jamie Saris, David Prendergast, Katja Seidel

200 Seiten, Hardcover

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

To older adults, a sense of control over relationships, structures and surroundings is key to living a meaningful life according to their own judgments. Through ninety-four ethnographic case studies of community dwelling older adults in Europe before and during the COVID-19 pandemic, this book provides insight into their lifeworlds in a historically situated and socio-culturally contextualized way. It highlights the importance of agency, friction between self-perceptions on age and outside impositions and the need to deconstruct old age as a homogenizing category of belonging.

• Themen: Gesellschaft und Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie und Anthropologie Anthropologie Sozial- und Kulturanthropologie, Ethnographie
• ISBN: 9781805399513
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 01.04.2025
• Größe: 235 x 157 mm
• Verlag: Berghahn Books