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Please find attached information about a workshop taking place at the Royal Institute of British Architects on the 8th of July 2011.
If you would like to attend this event please email Susan Jones [log in to unmask] or telephone 01248 388728 by Monday 23rd May. Places are limited
‘Community, Place and Well Being in Later Life’
Workshop
AHRC: Connected Communities Programme
Friday 8th July 2011
Royal Institute of British Architects
66 Portland Place, London
Introduction
The undermining of ‘community’ formed a major theme in the sociology of modernity. More recently the very idea of what constitutes community has been problematised, with competing views of whether communities are better seen as ‘symbolic’, ‘geographic’ or ‘relational’. The economic and social contingencies of second modernity have now destabilised many of the institutions of modernity. As the generations that grew up in the consumer culture of the ‘long’ sixties are now growing old, the communities in which old age was realised – for good or ill – may be disappearing. On the one hand there is increasing difficulty in allying oneself with the symbolic community of ‘the old’; on the other hand, fewer people have grown up and grown old in the same neighbourhood. The once stable relationships of ‘family’ and ‘home’ have become less effective in controlling or stabilising individuals’ sense of who they are and what they are worth; with the declining influence of the vertical order of kith and kin, the horizontal relationships of partners and peers have gained in influence. What now are the structures and the relationships that confer identity and sustain well-being in later life? This AHRC workshop will examine our various understandings of community, belonging and well-being in later life. Drawing together scholars who have research interests spanning community, place and later life the workshop will provide an opportunity for sharing and discussing research findings and identifying avenues for future research.
Programme:
10:30 Registration and tea/coffee
11:00 Welcome - Ian Rees Jones – Bangor University
11:15 Paul Milbourne - Cardiff University
Older people and poverty in rural places: material hardships, cultural denials and social inclusions
12:30 Lunch
13:45 Kieran Walsh - National University of Ireland Galway
Diversity, Attachment and Exclusion in Dynamic Communities: Ageing in Rural Ireland and Northern Ireland
15:00 Wendy Martin, Christina Victor and Maria Zubair – Brunel University
Perceptions and experiences of community, place and transnational connectivity amongst older South Asians living in the UK
16:15 Closing Remarks
If you would like to attend this event please email Susan Jones [log in to unmask] or telephone 01248 388728 by Monday 23rd May. Places are limited
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