Ageing Selves and Everyday Life in Ni CB: Years in the Making

by Cathrine Degnen

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0719083087
• ISBN13: 9780719083082
• Release Date: October 2012
• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.3"