{"product_id":"9783030716714","title":"Leisure in Later Life","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis book analyses leisure choice as a complex concept, made more complicated\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ein later life than at any other time. The author posits that there are many\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eunanswered questions about the new booming generation of healthy, older\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003epeople, and this book asks what it is really like to be old at the beginning of the\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e21st century in the United Kingdom, analysing leisure in older people in the\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003econtext of the subtle politics of the day to day.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThroughout the chapters, the author highlights the often missing depictions of\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eolder people who enjoy and enact bold, informed agency as part of their everyday\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003elives. Drawing upon secondary data from the Mass Observation Archive, a social\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ethesis of leisure and ageing emerges that challenges the individualism inherent in\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e‘active ageing.’ It is proposed that the idea of ‘active ageing’ creates complex\u003c\/p\u003econstraints to leisure as people strive to measure up to cultural expectations. The\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003estories in this book advocate for an appreciation and re-evaluation of passive\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eleisure in later life, and the enjoyment and freedom it can bring.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe project is therefore useful to students and researchers of leisure studies,\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003egerontology and sociology of ageing.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Year: \u003c\/strong\u003e2021\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eImprint: \u003c\/strong\u003eSpringer International Publishing\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Tania Wiseman","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41276161982642,"sku":"9783030716714","price":171.59,"currency_code":"SGD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0502\/5382\/4178\/products\/3030716716.01_SCLZZZZZZZ.jpg?v=1636160389","url":"https:\/\/readabook.store\/products\/9783030716714","provider":"READABOOK BY ALKEM","version":"1.0","type":"link"}