This document provides information about the book "Physical Activity and Sport in Later Life: Critical Perspectives" including ordering details for different regions, a summary of the book, its contents, biographies of the editors, and a special offer for 30% off the book price with a discount code until December 31, 2015. The book draws on experiences of older people and brings together contributions from various fields to ask critical questions about physical activity and sport in later life, addressing issues such as cultural context, the aging process, environments that enable activity, gender, and space. It encourages readers to think critically about these topics and suggests solutions to issues of participation.

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Physical Activity and Sport in Later Life
Critical Perspectives
Edited By Emmanuelle Tulle and Cassandra Phoenix
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About the book
Drawing on the experiences of different groups of older people, this volume brings together
contributions from sociology, social gerontology, sport science, physical cultural studies,
health geography and psychology to ask critical questions about physical activity and sport
in later life. Addressing 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, this book
encourages readers to think critically about these questions and in some cases suggests
creative solutions to the issue of physical activity participation.
Theoretically informed and based on up-to-date research, the volume invites readers to
question their own assumptions about physical activity and sport in later life. The collection
is aimed at students and scholars of ageing and sport involved in learning and research in
the life and the social sciences.
CONTENTS
1. Introduction: Rethinking Physical Activity and Sport in Later Life; Emmanuelle Tulle and
Cassandra Phoenix
2. Physical Activity and Sedentary Behaviour: A Vital Politics of Old Age?; Emmanuelle Tulle
3. Physical Activity and Narratives of Successful Ageing; Elizabeth Pike
4. Fitness and Consumerism in Later Life; Paul Higgs and Chris Gilleard
5. Type 2 Diabetes and Commitment of Seniors to Adapted Physical Activity within the French
System of Therapeutic Education; Nathalie Barth and Claire Perrin
6. Pathways to Masters Sport: Sharing Stories from Sport 'Continuers', 'Rekindlers' and 'Late
Bloomers'; Rylee Dionigi
7. Keeping It in The Family: The Generational Transmission of Physical Activity; Victoria J.
Palmer
8. Later Life Physical Activity in Residential Care Settings; Mary Ann Kluge
9. Physical Activity and Dementia: Tai Chi as Narrative Care; Gary Kenyon
10. The Multidimensionality of Pleasure in Later Life Physical Activity; Cassandra Phoenix and
Noreen Orr
11. The Contingencies of Exercise Science in a Globalizing World: Ageing Chinese Canadians
and their Play and Pleasure in Exercise; Shannon Jette and Patricia Vertinsky
12. Fell Running in Later Life: Irresponsible Intoxication or Existential Capital?; Sarah Nettleton
13. Ageing and Embodied Masculinities in Sport and Physical Activity: From Flesh to Theory
and Back Again; Andrew C. Sparkes
14. Ageing Women Still Play Games: (Auto)ethnographic Research in a Fitness Intervention
Programme; Gertrud Pfister and Verena Lenneis
15. Physical Activity among Older Adults with Visual Impairment: Considerations for Ageing
Well with Sight Loss; Meridith Griffin
16. Local Environments and Activity in Later Life: Wellbeing Experiences in Green and Blue
Spaces; Sarah Bell and Benedict Wheeler
Emmanuelle Tulle is a Reader in
Sociology at Glasgow Caledonian
University, UK. She has written
widely on age, embodiment and anti-
ageing science, focusing more
specifically on Master sport, physical
activity and sedentary behaviour.
Cassandra Phoenix is a Senior
Lecturer in Qualitative Health
Research at the University of Exeter,
UK. She has written widely on how
physicality shapes expectations and
experiences of ageing across the life
course, focusing specifically on
young athletes, active older adults,
and visually impaired people in later
life.
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