Ageing Selves and Everyday Life in the North of England

Years in the Making

Cathrine Degnen, Alexander Smith

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Manchester University Press
18 April 2017

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. 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
Imprint: Manchester University Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm, Spine: 10mm
Weight: 259g
ISBN: 9781526116949
ISBN 10: 1526116944
Series: New Ethnographies
Pages: 176
Publication Date: 18 April 2017
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

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 -- .

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.' '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, Durham University, Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, 21 211-243 -- .