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Busy bodies
— activity, aging and the management of everyday life | | Author(s) | Stephen Katz |
| Journal title | Journal of Aging Studies, vol 14, no 2, June 2000 |
| Pages | pp 135-152 |
| Keywords | Recreation ; Group activities ; Ageing process ; Theory. |
| Annotation | With the rapid ageing of Western populations, professional practices, gerontological research, and popular opinion have jointly focused on the connection between activity and well-being in old age. However, scant critical attention has been paid to activity as part of a larger disciplinary discourse in the management of everyday life. This article examines the theoretical and practical aspects of activity in the gerontological field, and considers how activity has also become a keyword in radical and popular vocabularies for narratives of the self. Ageing and the ideal of activity are considered in the wider political context of a neoliberal "active society". (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-001114201 A |
| Classmark | H: HW: BG: 4D |
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