McQuaid, K orcid.org/0000-0003-4919-2958, Esson, J, Gough, KV et al. (1 more author) (2020) Navigating old age and the urban terrain: Geographies of ageing from Africa. Progress in Human Geography. ISSN 0309-1325
Abstract
This paper extends research on geographies of ageing in relation to urban academic and policy debates. We illustrate how older people in urban African contexts deploy their agency through social and spatial (im)mobilities, intergenerational relations and (inter)dependencies. Through doing so, we reveal how urban contexts shape, and are shaped by, older people’s tactics for seizing opportunities and navigating the urban terrain. Our analysis demonstrates how a more substantive dialogue between insights on ageing in African contexts and urban ageing policy can create new forms of knowledge that are more equitable and just, both epistemologically and in their policy impacts.
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © The Author(s) 2020. This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) which permits any use, reproduction and distribution of the work without further permission provided the original work is attributed as specified on the SAGE and Open Access pages (https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/open-access-at-sage). |
Keywords: | Africa, gerontology, mobility, social infrastructure, social navigation, urban |
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Institution: | The University of Leeds |
Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Faculty of Environment (Leeds) > School of Geography (Leeds) > SOG: Cities & Social Justice (Leeds) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Publications |
Date Deposited: | 09 Feb 2021 11:44 |
Last Modified: | 09 Feb 2021 11:44 |
Status: | Published online |
Publisher: | SAGE Publications |
Identification Number: | 10.1177/0309132520948956 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:170903 |