Katja Seidel, David Prendergast, A. Jamie Saris

Gebundenes Buch

From Legacies to Futures

The Lifeworlds of Older Adults in Europe

Beschreibung

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.

Autor

A. Jamie Saris is an Associate Professor in the Department of Anthropology, Maynooth University. He has been working for more than twenty-five years in medical and psychological anthropology in field sites in Ireland, North America, Continental Europe and parts of Africa. He is a founding member and part of the Executive Committee of the Assisting Living and Learning (ALL) Institute at Maynooth University.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Berghahn Books
• Seitenzahl: 200
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. April 2025
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 448g
• ISBN-13: 9781805399513
• ISBN-10: 1805399519
• Artikelnr.: 71920436