| Title: | Navigating Hardship : Practical Strategies for Coping with Poverty in Old Age |
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| Authors: | ID Perger, Nina (Author)
ID Kamin, Tanja (Author)
ID Mali, Jana (Author) |
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| Files: |  PDF - Presentation file, download (1,60 MB)
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 URL - Source URL, visit https://publ.zdjp.si/index.php/ashs/article/view/167
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| Language: | English |
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| Typology: | 1.01 - Original Scientific Article |
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| Organization: |  IRRIS - Institute IRRIS for Research, Development and Strategies of Society, Culture and Environment
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| Abstract: | This article analyses the practical strategies used by older people living in poverty to navigate their social worlds, which, applying Pierre Bourdieu’s theoretical framework, are framed by ‘positional suffering’ due to low social status. Qualitative data gathered from biographical interviews reveal strategies that include adjusting one’s aspirations to what is attainable, adapting one’s needs to match necessities, learned self-sufficiency, relentless prioritisation, an emphasis on cost-consciousness and stringent conservation, prioritisation by sacrifice and dispositions to ‘make something out of nothing’. Crucially, these strategies emphasise that older people living in poverty are active agents navigating through hardship. |
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| Keywords: | old age, poverty, practical strategies, habitus, habitus of necessity |
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| Publication status: | Published |
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| Publication version: | Version of Record |
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| Publication date: | 01.01.2025 |
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| Year of publishing: | 2025 |
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| Number of pages: | 151-162 |
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| Numbering: | 35, 2 |
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| PID: | 20.500.12556/DiRROS-30160  |
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| UDC: | 009, 364.662-053.9 |
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| ISSN on article: | 1408-5348 |
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| DOI: | 10.19233/ASHS.2025.10 |
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| COBISS.SI-ID: | 245684227 |
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| Copyright: | Imetniki avtorskih pravic na prispevkih so avtorji. CC BY 4.0 |
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| Publication date in DiRROS: | 19.06.2026 |
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| Views: | 24 |
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| Downloads: | 24 |
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