Physical Activity and Sport in Later Life

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-ix

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2. Introduction: Rethinking Physical Activity and Sport in Later Life

   • Emmanuelle Tulle, Cassandra Phoenix

   Pages 1-8

3. Physical Activity and Sedentary Behaviour: A Vital Politics of Old Age?

   • Emmanuelle Tulle

   Pages 9-20

4. Physical Activity and Narratives of Successful Ageing

   • Elizabeth C. J. Pike

   Pages 21-31

5. Fitness and Consumerism in Later Life

   • Paul Higgs, Chris Gilleard

   Pages 32-42

6. Type 2 Diabetes and Commitment of Seniors to Adapted Physical Activity within the French System of Therapeutic Education

   • Nathalie Barth, Claire Perrin

   Pages 43-53

7. Pathways to Masters Sport: Sharing Stories from Sport ‘Continuers’, ‘Rekindlers’ and ‘Late Bloomers’

   • Rylee A. Dionigi

   Pages 54-68

8. Keeping It in the Family: The Generational Transmission of Physical Activity

   • Victoria J. Palmer

   Pages 69-80

9. Physical Activity Programmes in Residential Care Settings

   • Mary Ann Kluge

   Pages 81-91

10. Physical Activity and Dementia: Tai Chi as Narrative Care

    • Gary Kenyon

    Pages 92-100

11. The Multidimensionality of Pleasure in Later Life Physical Activity

    • Cassandra Phoenix, Noreen Orr

    Pages 101-112

12. The Contingencies of Exercise Science in a Globalising World: Ageing Chinese Canadians and their Play and Pleasure in Exercise

    • Shannon Jette, Patricia Vertinsky

    Pages 113-123

13. Fell Running in Later Life: Irresponsible Intoxication or Existential Capital?

    • Sarah Nettleton

    Pages 124-136

14. Ageing and Embodied Masculinities in Physical Activity Settings: From Flesh to Theory and Back Again

    • Andrew C. Sparkes

    Pages 137-148

15. Ageing Women Still Play Games: (Auto)ethnographic Research in a Fitness Intervention

    • Gertrud Pfister, Verena Lenneis

    Pages 149-160

16. Physical Activity among Older Adults with Visual Impairment: Considerations for Ageing Well with Sight Loss

    • Meridith Griffin

    Pages 161-174

17. Local Environments and Activity in Later Life: Meaningful Experiences in Green and Blue Spaces

    • Sarah L. Bell, Benedict W. Wheeler

    Pages 175-186

18. Back Matter

    Pages 187-189

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This volume addresses key issues such as the cultural and discursive context in which physical activity is discussed; the process of becoming physically active; the role of care settings in enabling physical activity; pleasure; gender; and place and space.

• Ageing
• Sport
• Body
• Pleasure
• research
• family
• physical activity
• sociology
• social gerontology
• sport science
• physical cultural studies
• health geography
• psychology
• capital
• care
• Cultural Studies
• dementia
• diabetes
• environment
• fitness
• Generation
• gerontology
• health
• intervention
• politics
• sports

• Glasgow Caledonian University, UK

  Emmanuelle Tulle

• University of Exeter, UK

  Cassandra Phoenix

Nathalie Barth, Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, France. Sarah Bell, University of Exeter, UK. Rylee A. Dionigi, Charles Sturt University, Australia. Chris Gilleard , University College London, UK. Meridith Griffin, McMaster University, Canada. Paul Higgs, University College London, UK. Shannon Jette, University of Maryland, USA. Gary Kenyon, St. Thomas University, Canada. Verena Lenneis, University of Copenhagen, Denmark. Sarah Nettleton, University of York, UK. Victoria J. Palmer, Glasgow Caledonian University, UK. Claire Perrin, Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, France. Gertrud Pfister, University of Copenhagen, Denmark. Elizabeth Pike, University of Chichester, UK. Andrew C. Sparkes, Leeds Beckett University, England. Patricia Vertinsky, University of British Columbia, Canada. Benedict Wheeler, University of Exeter, UK.

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