Leisure in Later Life (Leisure Studies in a Global Era) 1st Edition Tania Wiseman 9783030716721 3030716724

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• ISBN 10: 3030716724
• ISBN 13: 9783030716721 
• Author: Tania Wiseman

This book analyses leisure choice as a complex concept, made more complicated in later life than at any other time. 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 21st century in the United Kingdom, analysing leisure in older people in the context of the subtle politics of the day to day. 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 social thesis of leisure and ageing emerges that challenges the individualism inherent in ‘active ageing.’ It is proposed that the idea of ‘active ageing’ creates complexconstraints to leisure as people strive to measure up to cultural expectations. The stories in this book advocate for an appreciation and re-evaluation of passive leisure in later life, and the enjoyment and freedom it can bring. The project is therefore useful to students and researchers of leisure studies, gerontology and sociology of ageing.

Table contents:

Part 1. Introduction to a New Ageing Population
Part 2. Constraints to Leisure in a Healthy Later Life
Part 3. Investigating Private Leisure Lives
Part 4. Navigating Archives, Going Native and Falling in Love with 26 New People
Part 5. Negotiating Leisure Lives in a Culture of Active Ageing
Part 6. Freedom and Belonging in Everyday Leisure Lives
Part 7. A Social Thesis of Leisure

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