Countryside connections : older people, community and place in rural Britain / [electronic resource]
Hennessy, Catherine Hagan,1952-editor.
Means, Robin,editor.
Burholt, Vanessa,editor.
The first project-based book in The New Dynamics of Ageing series offers a unique interdisciplinary perspective on older people's role as assets in rural civic society. The authors examine the ways in which rural elders are connected to community, the contributions they make and the groups to which they belong.
COUNTRYSIDE CONNECTIONS; Contents; List of tables and figures; Acknowledgements; Notes on contributors; Foreword; 1. Countryside connections in later life: setting the scene; Introduction; Rural ageing in the UK context; Social participation and civic engagement in later life; Capturing the rural ageing dividend; The Grey and Pleasant Land project; Overview of the chapters; 2. Conceptualising rural connectivities in later life; Connectivity from a governance perspective; Policies and action for connectivity among older people; Civic engagement among rural elders
Social capital - challenging functionalist limitationsStructuralist views of connectivity: Bourdieu; The human ecological approach; Conclusion; 3. Rural connectivity and older people's leisure participation; Older people's leisure in rural settings; Methods; Participation in cultural and leisure activities: results from the GaPL survey; Continuity, change and innovation in later life leisure; Creating rural community connections through leisure participation; Barriers to rural leisure participation; Discussion; Rural Memories of Leisure Lives: interdisciplinarity towards public engagement
Conclusions4. Connecting with community: the nature of belonging among rural elders; What is place attachment?; Physical place attachment; Social or cultural place attachment; Psychological and temporal place attachment; Methods; Results: evidence of attachment of older adults in rural UK communities; Discussion: attachment and connectivity; Conclusions; 5. Beyond transport: understanding the role of mobilities in connecting rural elders in civic society; Introduction; Methods; From transport to connectivity; The connectivity of older people in rural areas; Conclusions
6. Deep mapping and rural connectivitiesIntroduction; Deep mapping - enacting connectivity; Forms of creative working; The digital deep map; Understandings: place-time relations and meaning-making; Policy and practice implications and questions arising from this research; 7. Older people, low income and place: making connections in rural Britain; Introduction; Older people, low income and place: national and urban perspectives; Older people, low income and place: rural perspectives; Older people, low income and rural place: making empirical connections; Place and community
Experiencing low income in later life in rural areasConclusions; 8. Connecting with older people as project stakeholders: lessons for public participation and engagement in rural research; Background: public participation and engagement; Public participation and engagement with the Grey and Pleasant Land project; Using the Internet to promote public participation in and engagement with research; Methods and findings; Benefits and challenges of Internet-based engagement, particularly in relation to rural areas; Reflections and recommendations; Recommendations
9. Towards connectivity in a Grey and Pleasant Land?
Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.
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The first project-based book in The New Dynamics of Ageing series offers a unique interdisciplinary perspective on older people's role as assets in rural civic society. The authors examine the ways in which rural elders are connected to community, the contributions they make and the groups to which they belong.
Older people