Research paper
Older residents' experiences of islandness, identity and precarity: Ageing on Waiheke Island
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- Older residents' experiences of islandness, identity and precarity: Ageing on Waiheke Island
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- University of Otago
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Island living can entail many difficult or challenging experiences for individual residents, as well as for island communities at large. We use a multifaceted understanding of precarity and resilience to conceptualise these island challenges, as experienced by older island residents. We focus on Waiheke Island, an offshore island that sits within the greater Auckland area, where experiences of entangled precarities can be observed. Our work explores older renters' experiences on Waiheke Islan...
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- Scholarly text / Journal article
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- Article
- Date created
- 2019
- Creator
- Bates, L. / Kearns, R. / Coleman, T. / Wiles, J.
- URL
- https://hdl.handle.net/10523/16133
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- ageing / community / home / housing / islands / precarity / New Zealand / Waiheke Island / resilience / people / place / life / age / geographies / perceptions / retirees
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This article was first published in Island Studies Journal (Island Studies Journal). This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/4.0/, which permits re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, and is not altered, transformed, or built upon in any way. Copyright © 2023 The Author(s).Copyright © 2019 Institute of Island Studies, University of Prince Edward Island.
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