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Leisure in Later Life


Leisure in Later Life


Leisure Studies in a Global Era

von: Tania Wiseman

128,39 €

Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan
Format: PDF
Veröffentl.: 15.05.2021
ISBN/EAN: 9783030716721
Sprache: englisch

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<p>This book analyses leisure choice as a complex concept, made more complicated</p><p>in later life than at any other time. The author posits that there are many</p><p>unanswered questions about the new booming generation of healthy, older</p><p>people, and this book asks what it is really like to be old at the beginning of the</p><p>21st century in the United Kingdom, analysing leisure in older people in the</p><p>context of the subtle politics of the day to day.</p><p>Throughout the chapters, the author highlights the often missing depictions of</p><p>older people who enjoy and enact bold, informed agency as part of their everyday</p><p>lives. Drawing upon secondary data from the Mass Observation Archive, a social</p><p>thesis of leisure and ageing emerges that challenges the individualism inherent in</p><p>‘active ageing.’ It is proposed that the idea of ‘active ageing’ creates complex</p>constraints to leisure as people strive to measure up to cultural expectations. The<p></p><p>stories in this book advocate for an appreciation and re-evaluation of passive</p><p>leisure in later life, and the enjoyment and freedom it can bring.</p><p>The project is therefore useful to students and researchers of leisure studies,</p><p>gerontology and sociology of ageing.</p><br>
<p>Chapter 1 Introduction to a new ageing population.-&nbsp;Chapter 2 Constraints to leisure in a healthy later life.-&nbsp;Chapter 3 Methodology and methods.-&nbsp;Chapter 4: Selecting participants and analysis of correspondence.-&nbsp;Chapter 5: Leisure in later life themes.-&nbsp;Chapter 6: Discussion.-&nbsp;Chapter 7: Conclusion.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p><b><i></i></b></p><p><b><i></i></b></p><p><b><i></i></b></p><p><b><i></i></b></p><p><b><i></i></b></p><p><b><i></i></b></p>
<p>Tania Wiseman is Principal Lecturer in Occupational Therapy at the University of</p><p>Brighton. Her research interest is in passive leisure in later life, and all the joy it</p><p>brings.</p><p></p>
<p>This book analyses&nbsp;leisure choice as a complex concept, made more complicated in later life than at any other time.&nbsp; 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 21<sup>st</sup>&nbsp;century in the United Kingdom, analysing leisure in older people in the context of the subtle politics of the day to day.&nbsp;&nbsp;</p>

&nbsp;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&nbsp;social thesis of leisure and ageing emerges that challenges the individualism inherent in active ageing.&nbsp; It is proposed that the idea of ‘active ageing’ creates complex constraints to leisure as people strive to measure up to cultural expectations.&nbsp; The storiesin this book advocate for an appreciation and re-evaluation of passive leisure in later life, and the enjoyment and freedom it can bring.<p></p>

<p>&nbsp;The project is therefore useful to students and researchers of leisure studies, gerontology and sociology of ageing.&nbsp;</p><p></p><p>Tania Wiseman is Principal Lecturer in Occupational Therapy at the University of Brighton.&nbsp; Her research interest is in passive leisure in later life, and all the joy it brings.</p><p></p>
Problematises neoliberal discourses around ageing and leisure Provides a qualitatively different study of leisure in later life to encourage further study of passive leisure and experiences of ageing Serves as an example of how to carry out research using secondary data, in this case using the Mass Observation Archive