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Ageing Selves and Everyday Life in the North of England
Cathrine Degnen
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Description for Ageing Selves and Everyday Life in the North of England
Hardback. Seeking to better understand what it means to grow older in contemporary Britain from the perspective of older people themselves, this richly detailed ethnographic study engages in debates over selfhood and people's relationships with time. Series Editor(s): Smith, Alexander. Series: New Ethnographies. Num Pages: 176 pages, 3 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBK; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 164 x 275 x 19. Weight in Grams: 412.
Seeking to explore what it means to grow older in contemporary Britain from the perspective of older people themselves, this richly detailed ethnographic study engages in debates over selfhood and people’s relationships with time. Based on research conducted in a former coal mining village in South Yorkshire, England, Cathrine Degnen explores how the category of ‘old age’ comes to be assigned and experienced in everyday life through multiple registers of interaction, including that of social memory, in a postindustrial context of great social transformation. Challenging both the notion of a homogenous relationship with time across generations and the idea of ... Read more
Seeking to explore what it means to grow older in contemporary Britain from the perspective of older people themselves, this richly detailed ethnographic study engages in debates over selfhood and people’s relationships with time. Based on research conducted in a former coal mining village in South Yorkshire, England, Cathrine Degnen explores how the category of ‘old age’ comes to be assigned and experienced in everyday life through multiple registers of interaction, including that of social memory, in a postindustrial context of great social transformation. Challenging both the notion of a homogenous relationship with time across generations and the idea of ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Manchester University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
176
Condition
New
Series
New Ethnographies
Number of Pages
176
Place of Publication
Manchester, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780719083082
SKU
V9780719083082
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About Cathrine Degnen
Cathrine Degnen is Lecturer in Social Anthropology at Newcastle University -- .
Reviews for Ageing Selves and Everyday Life in the North of England
There is much to be learnt from this in-depth and extensive ethnographic research: about how older people make sense of, and talk about, the situations in which they find themselves in later life. Degnen’s sensitive and thought-provoking ethnography has a moral as well as analytical valency and makes a valuable contribution to this literature.
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