Ageing in rural areas as a mode of active ageing
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216224%3A14230%2F25%3A00144312" target="_blank" >RIV/00216224:14230/25:00144312 - isvavai.cz</a>
Result on the web
<a href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0743016725001196" target="_blank" >https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0743016725001196</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jrurstud.2025.103679" target="_blank" >10.1016/j.jrurstud.2025.103679</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Ageing in rural areas as a mode of active ageing
Original language description
While there have been plenty of debates on the rural aspects of later life, we lack attention to how rurality influences the understanding of the key sociogerontological concepts such as active and healthy ageing. These concepts tend to focus mainly on formalised, economically productive, or self-development activities, typical for urban environments. Activities such as home and garden maintenance, the cultivation of useful plants, or animal husbandry are invisible in concepts of 'good' ageing and often go unrecognised as beneficial to the quality of later life as presented in the mainstream policy discourses. Resulting urban hegemony frames the rural as deficient, subordinate, and lagging behind in the quality of life. We use qualitative interviews with older adults living in rural areas to build the concept of 'rural pursuits' and argue that it significantly enhances the well-being of older adults in rural areas and even 'compensates' the objective infrastructural deprivations, if present. Rural pursuits do not distinguish between work and leisure, have specific temporal dynamics, take commonplace throughout the day, change seasonally, allow for agentic disengagement, and are gendered, providing various opportunities for older women and men. We conclude that although unrecognised by the recent dominant active and healthy ageing policy discourses, rural pursuits are the very embodiment of active ageing and expose the hegemonical understanding of heterogeneous lived experiences of heterogeneous older people living in heterogeneous environments.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
50401 - Sociology
Result continuities
Project
<a href="/en/project/GA20-12567S" target="_blank" >GA20-12567S: Ageing and Older People in the Time of Climate Change</a><br>
Continuities
P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)
Others
Publication year
2025
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Journal of Rural Studies
ISSN
0743-0167
e-ISSN
1873-1392
Volume of the periodical
117
Issue of the periodical within the volume
July
Country of publishing house
GB - UNITED KINGDOM
Number of pages
8
Pages from-to
1-8
UT code for WoS article
001490730100001
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-105003556491