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This document provides information about the book "Physical Activity and Sport in Later Life: Critical Perspectives" including ordering details for different regions, a summary of the book, its contents, biographies of the editors, and a special offer for 30% off the book price with a discount code until December 31, 2015. The book draws on experiences of older people and brings together contributions from various fields to ask critical questions about physical activity and sport in later life, addressing issues such as cultural context, the aging process, environments that enable activity, gender, and space. It encourages readers to think critically about these topics and suggests solutions to issues of participation.
Physical Activity and Sport in Later Life 30
- 1. UK, Europe, & ROW (excl. Australia & Canada): USA: Australia: Direct Customer Services, Palgrave Macmillan, VHPS, Customer Services, Palgrave Macmillan, 16365 James Madison Highway Palgrave Macmillan, The Macmillan Campus, (US route 15), Gordonsville, Level 1, 15-19 Claremont St, 4 Crinan Street VA 22942, USA South Yarra London, N1 9XW, UK Email: consumerorders@mpsvirginia.com VIC 3141, Australia Tel: 0207 418 5802 Tel +61 3 9811 2555 (free call) Email: orders@palgrave.com Email: orders@unitedbookdistributors.com.au Global Culture and Sport Series Hardback 9781137429315 Sep 2015 £63.00 $95.00 £44.50 $66.50 208 pp 216 mm x 138 mm Kobo Books, Amazon Kindle, ebooks.com, Google eBookstore (UK), Ebrary, NetLibrary, Gardners Books, Barnes & Noble, Inc. Physical Activity and Sport in Later Life Critical Perspectives Edited By Emmanuelle Tulle and Cassandra Phoenix Special Offer - 30% off with this flyer About the book Drawing on the experiences of different groups of older people, this volume brings together contributions from sociology, social gerontology, sport science, physical cultural studies, health geography and psychology to ask critical questions about physical activity and sport in later life. Addressing key issues such as the cultural and discursive context in which physical activity is discussed; the process of becoming physically active; the role of care settings in enabling physical activity; pleasure; gender; and place and space, this book encourages readers to think critically about these questions and in some cases suggests creative solutions to the issue of physical activity participation. Theoretically informed and based on up-to-date research, the volume invites readers to question their own assumptions about physical activity and sport in later life. The collection is aimed at students and scholars of ageing and sport involved in learning and research in the life and the social sciences. CONTENTS 1. Introduction: Rethinking Physical Activity and Sport in Later Life; Emmanuelle Tulle and Cassandra Phoenix 2. Physical Activity and Sedentary Behaviour: A Vital Politics of Old Age?; Emmanuelle Tulle 3. Physical Activity and Narratives of Successful Ageing; Elizabeth Pike 4. Fitness and Consumerism in Later Life; Paul Higgs and Chris Gilleard 5. Type 2 Diabetes and Commitment of Seniors to Adapted Physical Activity within the French System of Therapeutic Education; Nathalie Barth and Claire Perrin 6. Pathways to Masters Sport: Sharing Stories from Sport 'Continuers', 'Rekindlers' and 'Late Bloomers'; Rylee Dionigi 7. Keeping It in The Family: The Generational Transmission of Physical Activity; Victoria J. Palmer 8. Later Life Physical Activity in Residential Care Settings; Mary Ann Kluge 9. Physical Activity and Dementia: Tai Chi as Narrative Care; Gary Kenyon 10. The Multidimensionality of Pleasure in Later Life Physical Activity; Cassandra Phoenix and Noreen Orr 11. The Contingencies of Exercise Science in a Globalizing World: Ageing Chinese Canadians and their Play and Pleasure in Exercise; Shannon Jette and Patricia Vertinsky 12. Fell Running in Later Life: Irresponsible Intoxication or Existential Capital?; Sarah Nettleton 13. Ageing and Embodied Masculinities in Sport and Physical Activity: From Flesh to Theory and Back Again; Andrew C. Sparkes 14. Ageing Women Still Play Games: (Auto)ethnographic Research in a Fitness Intervention Programme; Gertrud Pfister and Verena Lenneis 15. Physical Activity among Older Adults with Visual Impairment: Considerations for Ageing Well with Sight Loss; Meridith Griffin 16. Local Environments and Activity in Later Life: Wellbeing Experiences in Green and Blue Spaces; Sarah Bell and Benedict Wheeler Emmanuelle Tulle is a Reader in Sociology at Glasgow Caledonian University, UK. She has written widely on age, embodiment and anti- ageing science, focusing more specifically on Master sport, physical activity and sedentary behaviour. Cassandra Phoenix is a Senior Lecturer in Qualitative Health Research at the University of Exeter, UK. She has written widely on how physicality shapes expectations and experiences of ageing across the life course, focusing specifically on young athletes, active older adults, and visually impaired people in later life. *Special offer with this flyer valid until 31/12/2015 This price is available to individuals only. This offer is not available to our trade and library customers. Offer only valid outside Australasia & Canada. Orders must be placed direct with Palgrave Macmillan. To order your copy at this special price, visit www.palgrave.com and quote discount code , or email your order to the address belowPM15THIRTY