Motivating Activity and Handling Risk at Swedish Senior Summer Camps: A Micro Level Cultural Analysis of Camp Leaders’ Simultaneous Practices of Pushing and Pulling Participating Seniors

Gabriella Nilsson, Lisa Ekstam, Janicke Andersson

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Abstract

Overview: Drawing from ethnographic observations at senior camps, this paper discusses the contradiction between wanting to push participants into trying newactivities and needing to pull them back to ensure safety.
Theme: Social and Cultural Perspectives on Aging
Original languageEnglish
Publication statusUnpublished - 2017 Nov 3
EventAging & Society: Seventh Interdisciplinary Conference: Social Inequalities, Exclusion, and Age-Discrimination - University of California, Berkeley, United States
Duration: 2017 Nov 32017 Nov 4
Conference number: 7
http://agingandsociety.com/about/history/2017-conference

Conference

ConferenceAging & Society: Seventh Interdisciplinary Conference
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CityBerkeley
Period2017/11/032017/11/04
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Subject classification (UKÄ)

  • Cultural Studies
  • Ethnology

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