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As a result of growing life expectancy, the period of retirement is likely to surpass the entire period of working life in many countries. There is little acknowledgement that retirement is not an event but an extended period of life that unfolds over several decades. Experiences vary considerably across the globe, from areas where most people cannot afford to retire to places where a multitude of new possibilities are being developed for retirees. This book is an anthropological approach to consider life beyond retirement in a wide range of contexts and consequences.
“This is a unique contribution to the anthropology of work, adulthood and later life, bringing ethnographic insight to local understandings of retirement in ways that provide a ground for cross-national comparison.” • Jason Danely, Oxford Brookes University
“There are five countries represented for context,…the volume is value-added in that each chapter is an autonomous article with a comprehensive list of references.” · Choice Highly recommended.
Pauline Garvey is Professor in Anthropology at Maynooth University, the National University of Ireland. Her recent book, with Daniel Miller is entitled Ageing with Smartphones in Ireland: When Life Becomes Craft (UCL Press, 2021). Other works include Unpacking IKEA: Swedish Design for the Purchasing Masses (Routledge, 2018).
Introduction: The Presumptions of Retirement
Daniel Miller and Pauline Garvey
Chapter 1. Returns to (Non-)Retirement: Ageing Migrant Domestic Workers Linking Pasts and Futures
Megha Amrith
Chapter 2. Waiting to Retire in Rural Northeastern Brazil
Martin Fotta
Chapter 3. Downsizing, Rightsizing: Managing the Contours of Choice and Obligation in Retirement
Pauline Garvey
Chapter 4. New Expectations of Life in Retirement: Insights from Odisha, India
Annapurna Pandy
Chapter 5. The Power of Retirement
Alice Millar and Daniel Miller
Chapter 6. Retirement and Caring Masculinities in Later Life: Experiences of an Older Husband as Carer in Local Communities in Spain
Carlos Chirinos
Chapter 7. The Good Years, Having Time, and Time as a Gift: Experiences of Time in Retirement for People with Parkinson’s Disease in Australia and New Zealand
Imogen Spray
Afterword: Retiring Lives?
David Prendergast
Index