Countryside connections ：Older people, community and place in rural Britain ( The New Dynamics of Ageing )

Publication subTitle ：Older people, community and place in rural Britain

Publication series ：The New Dynamics of Ageing

Author： Hagan Hennessy   Catherine (Editor)   Means   Robin (Editor)   Burholt   Vanessa (Editor)  

Publisher： Policy Press‎

Publication year： 2014

E-ISBN: 9781447310310

P-ISBN(Hardback):  9781447310303

Subject： C91 Sociology

Keyword： Rural communities

Language： ENG

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Description

Older people in the countryside are vastly under-researched compared to those in urban areas. This innovative volume offers a unique interdisciplinary perspective on this issue focusing on older people’s role as assets in rural civic society and demonstrates how the use of diverse methods from across disciplines aims to increase public engagement with this research. The authors examine the ways in which rural elders are connected to community and place, the contributions they make to family and neighbours, and the organisations and groups to which they belong. Highly topical issues around later life explored through these perspectives include older people’s financial security, leisure, access to services, transport and mobility, civic engagement and digital inclusion – all considered within the rural context in an era of fiscal austerity. In doing so, this book challenges problem-based views of ageing rural populations through considering barriers and facilitators to older people’s inclusion and opportunities for community participation in rural settings. Countryside Connections is a valuable text for students, researchers and practitioners with interests in rural ageing, civic engagement and interdisciplinary methods, theory and practice.

Chapter

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 limitations

Structuralist 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

Conclusions

4. 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 connectivities

Introduction

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 areas

Conclusions

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?

Introduction

The challenge and rewards of interdisciplinary research on rural ageing

Dimensions of connectivity

Barriers to connectivity

Theorising connectivity revisited

Policy and practice implications

Celebrating rural elders

Index

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