Leisure in Later Life - Tania Wiseman

Leisure in Later Life

(Autor)

Buch | Hardcover
XXIX, 224 Seiten
2021 | 1st ed. 2021
Springer International Publishing (Verlag)
978-3-030-71671-4 (ISBN)
149,79 inkl. MwSt

This book analyses leisure choice as a complex concept, made more complicated

in later life than at any other time. The author posits that there are many

unanswered questions about the new booming generation of healthy, older

people, and this book asks what it is really like to be old at the beginning of the

21st century in the United Kingdom, analysing leisure in older people in the

context of the subtle politics of the day to day.

Throughout the chapters, the author highlights the often missing depictions of

older people who enjoy and enact bold, informed agency as part of their everyday

lives. Drawing upon secondary data from the Mass Observation Archive, a social

thesis of leisure and ageing emerges that challenges the individualism inherent in

'active ageing.' It is proposed that the idea of 'active ageing' creates complex

constraints to leisure as people strive to measure up to cultural expectations. The

stories in this book advocate for an appreciation and re-evaluation of passive

leisure in later life, and the enjoyment and freedom it can bring.

The project is therefore useful to students and researchers of leisure studies,

gerontology and sociology of ageing.


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Tania Wiseman is Principal Lecturer in Occupational Therapy at the University of Brighton.  Her research interest is in passive leisure in later life, and all the joy it brings.


Chapter 1 Introduction to a new ageing population.- Chapter 2 Constraints to leisure in a healthy later life.- Chapter 3 Methodology and methods.- Chapter 4: Selecting participants and analysis of correspondence.- Chapter 5: Leisure in later life themes.- Chapter 6: Discussion.- Chapter 7: Conclusion.

Erscheinungsdatum
Reihe/Serie Leisure Studies in a Global Era
Zusatzinfo XXIX, 224 p. 7 illus., 5 illus. in color.
Verlagsort Cham
Sprache englisch
Maße 148 x 210 mm
Gewicht 462 g
Themenwelt Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie Mikrosoziologie
Schlagworte Active ageing • cultural confirmity • exercise in later life • freedom and leisure • leisure in retirement • Older people • passive leisure • Sociology of Ageing
ISBN-10 3-030-71671-6 / 3030716716
ISBN-13 978-3-030-71671-4 / 9783030716714
Zustand Neuware
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