Anthropology of Retirement

Pauline Garvey is Professor in Anthropology at Maynooth University, the National University of Ireland. Her recent book, with Daniel Miller is entitled Ageing with Smartphones in Ireland: When Life Becomes Craft (UCL Press, 2021). Other works include Unpacking IKEA: Swedish Design for the Purchasing Masses (Routledge, 2018).

• Introduction: The Presumptions of RetirementDaniel Miller and Pauline GarveyChapter 1. Returns to (Non-)Retirement: Ageing Migrant Domestic Workers Linking Pasts and FuturesMegha AmrithChapter 2. Waiting to Retire in Rural Northeastern BrazilMartin FottaChapter 3. Downsizing, Rightsizing: Managing the Contours of Choice and Obligation in RetirementPauline GarveyChapter 4. New Expectations of Life in Retirement: Insights from Odisha, IndiaAnnapurna PandyChapter 5. The Power of RetirementAlice Millar and Daniel MillerChapter 6. Retirement and Caring Masculinities in Later Life: Experiences of an Older Husband as Carer in Local Communities in SpainCarlos ChirinosChapter 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 ZealandImogen SprayAfterword: Retiring Lives?David PrendergastIndex

“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