{"title":"Cathrine Degnen","description":"\u003cp\u003eCathrine Degnen’s work explores the intricate relationship between identity and everyday experience, with a particular focus on social and cultural dynamics. Her writing offers insightful perspectives on how individuals navigate change, especially in the context of ageing and community life in Northern England.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eReaders interested in sociology, education, and social theory will find her books both thought-provoking and accessible, blending academic rigour with a nuanced understanding of lived experience. Degnen’s research invites reflection on the ways we understand ourselves and others through daily practices and environments.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"ageing-selves-and-everyday-life-in-the-north-of-england-by-cathrine-degnen-9780719083082","title":"Ageing Selves and Everyday Life in the North of England","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSeeking to explore what it means to grow older in contemporary Britain from the perspective of older people themselves, this richly detailed ethnographic study engages in debates over selfhood and people's relationships with time. Based on research conducted in a former coal mining village in South Yorkshire, England, Cathrine Degnen explores how the category of \u003cem\u003eold age\u003c\/em\u003e comes to be assigned and experienced in everyday life through multiple registers of interaction, including that of social memory, in a postindustrial context of great social transformation.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eChallenging both the notion of a homogenous relationship with time across generations and the idea of a universalised middle-aged self, Degnen argues that the complex interplay of social, cultural and physical attributes of ageing means that older people can come to have a different position in relation to time and to the self than younger people, unseating normative conventions about narrative and temporality.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Hachette Aotearoa New Zealand","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47595538546924,"sku":"9780719083082","price":242.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9780719083082-ageing-selves-and-everyday-life-in-the-north-of-england.jpg?v=1777898889"}],"url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/collections\/cathrine-degnen.oembed","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}