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Aspiring in Later Life : Movements Across Time, Space, and Generations.

"In our highly interconnected and globalized world, people often pursue their aspirations in multiple places. Yet in public and scholarly debates, aspirations are often seen as the realm of younger, mobile generations, since they are assumed to hold the greatest potential for shaping the future...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Amrith, Megha
Otros Autores: Sakti, Victoria K., Sampaio, Dora, Lunca, Dumitrita, Johnson, Lisa, Alber, Erdmute, Coe, Cati, Kaur Gill, Harmandeep, Otaegui, Alfonso, Pauli, Julia
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chicago : Rutgers University Press, 2023.
Edición:1st ed.
Colección:Global perspectives on aging series.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:"In our highly interconnected and globalized world, people often pursue their aspirations in multiple places. Yet in public and scholarly debates, aspirations are often seen as the realm of younger, mobile generations, since they are assumed to hold the greatest potential for shaping the future. This volume flips this perspective on its head by exploring how aspirations are constructed from the vantage point of later life, and shows how they are pursued across time, space, and generations. The aspirations of older people are diverse, and relate not only to aging itself but also to planning the next generation's future, preparing an "ideal" retirement, searching for intimacy and self-realization, and confronting death and afterlives. Aspiring in Later Life brings together rich ethnographic cases from different regions of the world, offering original insights into how aspirations shift over the course of life and how they are pursued in contexts of translocal mobility"--
Descripción Física:1 online resource (205 pages).
ISBN:1978830432
9781978830431