Ageing Selves and Everyday Life in the North of England
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Author_Cathrine Degnen
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ethnography
narrativity
north of England
place
selfhood
social memory
subjectivity
temporality
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- ISBN 9780719083082
- Weight: 426g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 01 Oct 2012
- Publisher: Manchester University Press
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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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.
Cathrine Degnen is Lecturer in Social Anthropology at Newcastle University
