Growing Up, Growing Old
Trajectories of Times and Lives
Published on 1. August 2013
Book
Paperback/Softback
246 pages
978-1-904710-94-3 (ISBN)
Description
Life-course paradigms belong to the most salient features in social life. Virtually everyone is affected by one or the other version of their formulations. Accordingly important it seems to detect their underlying bases and assumptions and to show the deep impact these visions have on our lives. The present volume collects a number of articles coming from very varied backgrounds, such as sociology, psychology, anthropology and gerontology. The papers were originally presented at the international, inter-disciplinary conference "Times of our lives: Growing up and Growing old," at the University of Oxford, in Summer 2009. They all share a common interest in the topic of ageing and in the different ways that life-courses may be shaped in different historical and cultural contexts. The authors in this volume engage in a fruitful mutual exchange, and they do so from different angles and perspectives. The interdisciplinary approach in this book provides a most promising arena for the discussion of ageing.
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Edition
New edition
Language
English
Place of publication
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Inter/Connexions
Target group
College/higher education
Edition type
New edition
Illustrations
3
Dimensions
Height: 210 mm
Width: 150 mm
Thickness: 17 mm
Weight
350 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-904710-94-3 (9781904710943)
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Persons
Ian Flaherty is a PhD candidate in the Department of Sociology and Social Policy at the University of Sydney. His special interest is in the relationships between the narratives of fiction and the sociology of auto/biography, in particular how this applies to same-sex attracted men across the life-course. Andrea Nicolas is MaxNetAging post-doctoral research fellow at the German Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology. She has carried out extensive field-research in Northeast Africa (Ethiopia). Her main interests cover the fields of age, generation, ritual, conflict, mediation and the role of elders.
Content
Introduction Andrea Nicolas and Ian Flaherty Part 1: Trajectories in Time: Chronology, Age and Visions of the Life-Course 'Teen Brain' Stories and Their Place in Contemporary Discourses of (Im)Maturity across the Lifespan Monica A. Payne Without a Centre that Holds: Contemporary Adulthood and the Devolving Life-Course Harry Blatterer The Social Construction of Generations in Contemporary China: A Mannheimian Critique Chen Hee Tam Part 2: The Flow of Life: Thresholds, Stages and Transitions Blurred Transitions: Revisiting the Importance of Work and Parenthood for Young Adults in Italy Valentina Cuzzocrea and Sveva Magaraggia Like Fathers, Like Sons: Age-Staging and Generational Stumbling Blocks, The Boran Gadaa Experience Andrea Nicolas Growing Up and Growing Old: Negotiating the Generational Shift in Midlife Bethany Morgan Brett Part 3: Storied Lives: Love, Intimacy and Narratives of Happiness The Love Stories of, and the Impact of HIV/AIDS upon, Generations of Gay Men in Urban Australia and New Zealand Ian Flaherty Storied Lives: Connecting Life Course Narrative Identities and Eudaimonic Happiness in Later Life Deirdre O'Donnell and Kathleen McTiernan Part 4: Shifts and Continuities: Reflecting upon Time and Generation Get Me to a Nunnery: A Reflection on Ageing in Two Different Cultural Contexts, the Nursing Home and the Religious Convent Ina Olohan Situating Ageing, Consumption and Materiality through the Life-Course Juliana Mansvelt Intimacy among the Socially Dead: Examining Intimacy among 217 Institutionalised Elders with Mid to Late Stage Dementia Johanna M. Wigg