Cathrine Degnen

Ageing selves and everyday life in the north of England

Years in the making

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Manchester University Press
• Seitenzahl: 176
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. Oktober 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 10mm
• Gewicht: 278g
• ISBN-13: 9781526116949
• ISBN-10: 1526116944
• Artikelnr.: 47105357

Autorenporträt

Cathrine Degnen is Lecturer in Social Anthropology at Newcastle University

Inhaltsangabe

1 Introduction 2 Dodworth: people and place 3 Endings, pasts and futures:
temporal complexities and memory talk 4 Monitoring the boundaries of age:
intra-generational perspectives on 'old age' 5 Reconfiguring normative
models of self 6 Narrative forms and shapes 7 Conclusions References