Leisure in old age: disciplinary practices surrounding the discourse of active ageing

• DOI: 10.3384/ijal.1652-8670.11615
• Publication Date: 2011-10-31T10:26:42Z
• Authors: Jaroslava Hasmano...
• Keywords: Active ageing; Discipline; Healthy ageing

In the 1990s, World Health Organization adopted term ’’active ageing’’, which currently represents a key vision of old age in Western societies facing situation demographic ageing. The meaning idea active ageing is based on concept individuals actively and systematically influencing conditions their through selfresponsibility self-care. aim this article to map how constructed implications it presents with regard way seniors relate experience age. It concentrates specific segment senior-oriented social services (centres for that offer leisure time activities educational courses) represent an institutional context manifestation discourse A three-year ethnographic study was conducted two such centres Czech Republic. focuses various strategies disciplining body. points out these disciplinary practices are integral part daily running who intensively engage them have internalised lifestyle as most desirable Active by project must be worked on. Through ’’technologies self’’ embedded imperative necessity move or do something, they participate production form discipline At same time, outlines ’’correct’’ influences self-conception attitudes towards peers.