Ageing Selves and Everyday Life in the North of England

Years in the Making

Cathrine Degnen, Alexander Smith, Bethan Hirst

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Manchester University Press
02 October 2012

Anthropology

Series: New Ethnographies

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 a universalised middle-aged self, Degnen argues that the complex interplay of social, cultural and physical attributes of ageing means that older people can come to have a different position in relation to time and to the self than younger people, unseating normative conventions about narrative and temporality. -- .

By: Cathrine Degnen
Series edited by: Alexander Smith
Other: Bethan Hirst
Imprint: Manchester University Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm, Spine: 11mm
Weight: 426g
ISBN: 9780719083082
ISBN 10: 0719083087
Series: New Ethnographies
Pages: 176
Publication Date: 02 October 2012
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Cathrine Degnen is Lecturer in Social Anthropology at Newcastle University

Reviews for Ageing Selves and Everyday Life in the North of England: Years in the Making

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. -- Bill Bytheway. Book Review Degnen's sensitive and thought-provoking ethnography has a moral as well as analytical valency and makes a valuable contribution to this literature. -- Peter Collins. Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute (N.S.) 21, 211-258