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Dealing with change in old age: Negotiating working-class belonging in a neighbourhood in the process of urban renewal in the Netherlands
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In this article, the impact of neighbourhood transitions on older adults' sense of belonging in the Netherlands by exploring how they deal with changes in the neighbourhood in their everyday life is explored.About:
This article is published in Geoforum.The article was published on 2013-12-01. It has received 56 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Neighbourhood (mathematics).read more
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Geographies of ageing: Progress and possibilities after two decades of change
TL;DR: The authors examines two-decades of progress toward developing "geographies of ageing" as a distinct field of human geography. But their focus is on the empirical gap in understanding the contributions of older people and the potential for relational and nonrepresentational perspectives to expand the breadth of the field.
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Understanding older adults’ social capital in place: Obstacles to and opportunities for social contacts in the neighbourhood
TL;DR: In this article, the authors provide a geographical account of older adults' social capital, by taking the main context of their daily life, the neighbourhood, into consideration, and draw on semi-structured and walking interviews with 17 older adults living in an urban neighbourhood in the Northern Netherlands in order to illustrate the meanings of, the obstacles to and the opportunities for local social contacts.
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Rhythms, ageing and neighbourhoods:
TL;DR: In this article, the authors used Lefebvre's Rhythmanalysis to illustrate how the rhythmic orderings of people and place come into being and inform their experiences.
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Aging in place and the places of aging: A longitudinal study.
Camilla Lewis,Tine Buffel +1 more
TL;DR: Four in-depth case-studies from a qualitative longitudinal study of older people living in neighborhoods characterized by high levels of deprivation and rapid population change show how aging in place is affected by changing life-course circumstances and the dynamics of these neighborhoods over time.
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Street Phenomenology The Go-Along as Ethnographic Research Tool
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors introduce and evaluate the go-along as a qualitative research tool, which sets this technique apart from traditional ethnographic methods such as participant observation and interview.
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After Ant: Complexity, Naming and Topology:
TL;DR: The authors explored the tension central to the notion of an actor-network, which is an intentionally oxymoronic term that combines structure and agency, and argued that this tension has been lost as "actor-network" has been converted into a smooth and consistent "theory" that has been (too) simply and easily displaced, criticised or applied.
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The Meaning of “Aging in Place” to Older People
TL;DR: This study investigates how older people understand the meaning of "aging in place," a term widely used in aging policy and research but underexplored with older people themselves, in terms of functional, symbolic, and emotional attachments and meanings of homes, neighbourhoods, and communities.