Overview
- Problematises neoliberal discourses around ageing and leisure
- Provides a qualitatively different study of leisure in later life to encourage further study of passive leisure and experiences of ageing
- Serves as an example of how to carry out research using secondary data, in this case using the Mass Observation Archive
Part of the book series: Leisure Studies in a Global Era (LSGE)
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Table of contents (7 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
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 complex
constraints to leisure as people strive to measure up to cultural expectations. Thestories 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.
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Tania Wiseman is Principal Lecturer in Occupational Therapy at the University of
Brighton. Her research interest is in passive leisure in later life, and all the joy it
brings.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Leisure in Later Life
Authors: Tania Wiseman
Series Title: Leisure Studies in a Global Era
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-71672-1
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-71671-4Published: 16 May 2021
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-71674-5Published: 17 May 2022
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-71672-1Published: 15 May 2021
Series ISSN: 2946-3173
Series E-ISSN: 2946-3181
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXIX, 224
Number of Illustrations: 2 b/w illustrations, 5 illustrations in colour
Topics: Sociology, general, Sociology of Family, Youth and Aging