Routledge Handbook of Cultural Gerontology

by Julia Twigg (Editor), Wendy Martin (Editor)

Overview

Later years are changing under the impact of demographic, social and cultural shifts. No longer confined to the sphere of social welfare, they are now studied within a wider cultural framework that encompasses new experiences and new modes of being. Drawing on influences from the arts and humanities, and deploying diverse methodologies – visual, literary, spatial – and theoretical perspectives Cultural Gerontology has brought new aspects of later life into view. This major new publication draws together these currents including: Theory and Methods; Embodiment; Identities and Social Relationships; Consumption and Leisure; and Time and Space. Based on specially commissioned chapters by leading international authors, the Routledge Handbook of Cultural Gerontology will provide concise authoritative reviews of the key debates and themes shaping this exciting new field.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780415631143
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	06/25/2015
Series:	Routledge International Handbooks
Pages:	502
Product dimensions:	6.88(w) x 9.69(h) x (d)

About the Author

Julia Twigg is Professor of Social Policy and Sociology at the University of Kent, UK. She has written widely on the body and age. She is on the editorial boards of Ageing & Society, Journal of Aging Studies and International Journal of Ageing and Later Life.

 

Wendy Martin is Senior Lecturer in the College of Health and Life Sciences, Brunel University London, UK. She is co-convenor of the British Sociological Association Ageing, Body and Society study group.

Table of Contents

1. Revisiting Cultural Gerontology: Exploring the Landscape Ten Years On  PART 1: THE POLITICS AND THEORISING OF AGEING  2. From Successful Ageing to Ageing Well  3. The Cultural Turn in Gerontology  4.Transitions and Time in an Unstable Context  5. Global and Local Ties and the Reconstruction of Later Life  6. Money and Finance in Later Life  7.The Civic Culture in Ageing Societies  8. Aged by Culture in the New COVID Era  9. Intersectionality and Paradoxes of Age Inequality  10. Culture, Ethnicity, Race, and Migrancy  11. The Race(ing) of Ageing Studies: Disrupting the Veil of Whiteness  12. Indigenous Elders, Older Adults, and Ageing  13. Beyond the View of the West: Ageing Anthropology  PART 2: MATERIALITY AND EMBODIMENT  14. Theorising Embodiment and Ageing  15. An Intersectional Considerations of Ageing and the Body  16. Sex, Sexuality and Later Life  17. The Smile in Older Age  18. Dress and Age  19. Materiality and Ageing  20. Architectural Imaginaries and Cultures of Care in Later Life  21. Meanings of Home and Age  22. Gardens and Gardening in Later Life  23. Cemeteries and Age  24. Ageing, Physical Activity and Sport  PART 3: CULTURES OF CARE  25. Cultures of Care  26. Personhood and the Dilemmas of Dementia Care  27. Dementia and Embodiment  28. The Fourth Age  29. Loneliness and Isolation  30. Suffering and Pain in Old Age  31. Medical Humanities and Cultural Gerontology  PART 4: IDENTITIES AND SOCIAL RELATIONSHIPS  32. Anti-Ageing and Identities  33. Representations of Ageing in the Media  34. Youth Culture, Ageing and Identity  35. Gender: Some Implications of a Contested Concept and Area of Social Life  36. Queering Cultural Gerontology  37. Ethnographies of Ageing  38. The Value of Religion, Spirituality, and Humanism to Older People  39. Ageing Workers  40. Lifestyle Migration, Ageing, and the Meaning of Relative Privilege  41. Widowhood and its Cultural Representations  42. Ageing and Biographical Methods  PART 5: ARTS AND TECHNOLOGIES  43. Art, Ageing and the Gendered Body  44. Literature and Age  45. Ageing in Film  46. Visual Methods in Ageing Research  47. Celebrity Culture and Ageing  48. Ageing and Popular Music  49. Rethinking Late-Life Creativity: Beyond ‘Late Style’  50. Ageing Playfully  51. From Chronological Age to Biomarkers of Ageing: A Historical Cultural Sociology  52. Science, Technology and Ageing  53. The Co-Constitution of Ageing and Technology in a Cultural Context