Overview

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.

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Author:   Daniel Miller ,  Pauline Garvey
Publisher:   Berghahn Books
Imprint:   Berghahn Books
ISBN:  

9781836950370

ISBN 10:   1836950373
Pages:   218
Publication Date:   01 July 2025
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Forthcoming
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Table of Contents

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

Reviews

“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

Author Information

Daniel Miller is Professor of Anthropology at University College London and directs the Centre for Digital Anthropology. He was the leader for two major European Research Council five-year funded projects, Why We Post on the use and consequences of social media, and ASSA the Anthropology of Smartphones and Smart Ageing. His most recent books include The Good Enough Life (Polity Books, 2023) and Ageing with Smartphones in Ireland, with Pauline Garvey (UCL Press, 2021).

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