Living and aging in the countryside: Is it better than in the square? Is it better than in the square?
The focus of this text portrays the experience of aging in rural areas, a reflection resulting from a doctoral research whose centrality was to understand the particularities of the aging process in the city and in the countryside, considering intergenerational family relationships and retirement. T...
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| Tipo de recurso: | artículo |
| Estado: | Versión publicada |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2024 |
| País: | Brasil |
| Institución: | Universidade Federal de Viçosa (UFV) |
| Repositorio: | Revista Oikos: Família e Sociedade em Debate (Viçosa. Online) |
| Idioma: | portugués |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:ojs.periodicos.ufv.br:article/14917 |
| Acceso en línea: | https://periodicos.ufv.br/oikos/article/view/14917 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palabra clave: | Família Velhice Relações intergeracionais Aposentadoria Rural |
| Sumario: | The focus of this text portrays the experience of aging in rural areas, a reflection resulting from a doctoral research whose centrality was to understand the particularities of the aging process in the city and in the countryside, considering intergenerational family relationships and retirement. Those who were born and aged in the countryside preserve with detail, memories of the arduous time of drought, suffering kept not only in their memories, but also in those of their descendants. The choice of the Northeast region was justified by the absence of further studies that address old age in this place. Therefore, it is essential to interpret the practices and representations of the social actors inserted in such a space, above all, social as well as geographical. |
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