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

by Megha Amrith , Victoria K. Sakti , Dora Sampaio
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Book cover type: Paperback
  • ISBN13: 9781978830400
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Subject: N/A
  • Publisher: Rutgers University Press
  • Publisher Imprint: Rutgers University Press
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  • Pages: 204
  • Original Price: USD 37.95
  • Language: English
  • Edition: N/A
  • Item Weight: 300 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): Gerontology

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.

This book is also freely available online as an open-access digital edition.​

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MEGHA AMRITH leads the "Ageing in a Time of Mobility" research group at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity in Göttingen, Germany. She is the author of Caring for Strangers: Filipino Medical Workers in Asia and co-editor of the volume Gender, Work, and Migration.

VICTORIA KUMALA SAKTI is a postdoctoral researcher in the "Ageing in a Time of Mobility" research group at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity in Göttingen, Germany. This is her first book.

DORA SAMPAIO is an assistant professor in the Department of Human Geography and Spatial Planning, Utrecht University, The Netherlands. She is the author of Migration, Diversity and Inequality in Later Life: Ageing at a Crossroads.

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