Imagining Ageing
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Imagining Ageing
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Author : Carmen Concilio
language : en
Publisher: transcript Verlag
Release Date : 2018-10-04
Imagining Ageing written by Carmen Concilio and has been published by transcript Verlag this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-10-04 with Social Science categories.
What do literary texts tell us about growing old? The essays in this volume introduce and explore representations of ageing and old age in canonical works of English and postcolonial literature. The contributors examine texts by William Shakespeare, Daniel Defoe, Julian Barnes, Thomas Kinsella, Seamus Heaney, J.M. Coetzee, Alice Munro, Witi Ihimaera and Patricia Grace and, together with a medical study, they suggest solutions to the challenges arising from the current demographic change brought about by ageing Western populations.
Lesbian Gay Bisexual And Transgender Ageing
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Author : Mike Sutherland
language : en
Publisher: Jessica Kingsley Publishers
Release Date : 2012-07-15
Lesbian Gay Bisexual And Transgender Ageing written by Mike Sutherland and has been published by Jessica Kingsley Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-07-15 with Social Science categories.
This book explores the lives and perspectives of older lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) people. As their distinct needs are often overlooked due to lack of understanding, this book demonstrates how life course approaches can offer insights into their support needs as they grow older, from housing and health care to community support.
Routledge Handbook Of Cultural Gerontology
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Author : Julia Twigg
language : en
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Release Date : 2026-01-30
Routledge Handbook Of Cultural Gerontology written by Julia Twigg and has been published by Taylor & Francis this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2026-01-30 with Social Science categories.
The second edition of this landmark handbook provides an authoritative overview of the emergence and development of cultural gerontology. It reveals the vibrancy and diversity of theory, methodology and research methods, and reflects on changes in the field since the first edition and examines future directions. Over the last two decades, cultural gerontology has emerged as one of the most lively and insightful areas of academic analysis. Whilst the Cultural Turn may have come quite late to ageing studies, cultural perspectives have increasingly influenced the field. Drawing from work across the humanities and social sciences, it has changed the ways in which we study later years, challenging old stereotypes, bringing to bear new theories, new methodologies, as well as new forms of political and intellectual engagement. The aim of this second edition of the handbook has been to bring together both new and original authors to provide a critical analysis of key perspectives and debates, and consider avenues for future agendas, within their own fields of cultural gerontology. There are new topics and themes, new theoretical and methodological perspectives, as well as chapters that have been extensively revised and updated. The handbook offers lively, interdisciplinary and vibrant accounts of later life around five interconnected areas: the politics and theorising of ageing; materiality and embodiment; cultures of care; identities, relationships and consumption; and arts and technologies. The Routledge Handbook of Cultural Gerontology captures the field’s past, present and future in widening the social gerontological imaginary and brings new and creative methodologies to bear on the understanding of all dimensions of the lives of people in mid to later life. It is essential reading for students and scholars concerned with ageing and gerontology.
Old Age In African Literary And Cultural Contexts
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Author : Pepetual Mforbe Chiangong
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Release Date : 2021-06-15
Old Age In African Literary And Cultural Contexts written by Pepetual Mforbe Chiangong and has been published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-06-15 with Literary Criticism categories.
Through a wide range of indigenous, postcolonial, gender and racial lenses, African writers have provided perspectives on various aspects of old age in the context of African literatures and cultures. This book illustrates how African literary and linguistic representations, ranging from short stories, novels and film to drama and theatre, give expression to ideas about old age. The perspectives offered here provide essential knowledge in understanding the uses of dichotomous age-related categories, such as old-young, elderly male-elderly female, and foreign-indigenous, which generally result in prejudice. Using ageism as its central theme, the contributions draw attention to the ambiguity associated with elderly people in African society who are often highly venerated for their wisdom, but also stereotyped because of their advanced age. However, as the book demonstrates, old age is also deeply valorised in some traditional African contexts, where older adults are regarded as indispensable members of society. It will be of particular interest to scholars, researchers, and students of African studies, applied theatre studies, gerontology, postcolonialism, sociolinguistics, sociology and anthropology.
Imagining Futures
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Author : Joanna Bornat
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2014-06-26
Imagining Futures written by Joanna Bornat and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-06-26 with Aging categories.
Older people are sometimes assumed not to be future-oriented, while younger people often assume that to talk about the future in the presence of an older person is either insensitive or irrelevant. Evidence from research suggests that such assumptions are far off the mark. Nevertheless they affect how the future is spoken of and engaged with by researchers. The papers included in this volume address these contradictions, focusing appropriately, given the series in which they are included, on methodological issues arising from asking people to imagine the future and their own ageing.
Re Imagining Old Age Wellbeing Care And Participation
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Author : Marian Barnes
language : en
Publisher: Vernon Press
Release Date : 2018-02-28
Re Imagining Old Age Wellbeing Care And Participation written by Marian Barnes and has been published by Vernon Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-02-28 with Social Science categories.
The understanding that humans are relational beings is central to the development of an ethical perspective that is built around the significance of care in all our lives. Our survival as infants is dependent on the care we receive from others. And for all of us, in particular, in older age, there are times when illness, emotional or physical frailty, mean that we require the care of others to enable us to deal with everyday life. With this in mind, this book presents the findings of a project that seeks to understand what wellbeing means to older people and to influence the practice of those who work with older people. Its starting point was a shared commitment amongst researchers and an NGO collaborator to the value of working with older people in both research and practice, to learn from them and be influenced by them rather than seeing them as the ‘subjects’ of a research project. Theoretically, the authors draw upon a range of studies in critical gerontology that seek to understand how experiences of ageing are shaped by their social, economic, cultural and political contexts. By employing a broad body of work that challenges normative assumptions of ‘successful’ ageing,’ the authors draw attention to how these assumptions have been constructed through neo-liberal policies of ‘active ageing.’ Notably, they also apply insights from feminist ethics of care, which are based on a relational ontology that challenges neo-liberal assumptions of autonomous individualism. Influenced by relational ethics, they are attentive to older people both as co-researchers and research respondents. By successfully applying this perspective to social care practice, they facilitate the need for practitioners to reflect on personal aspects of ageing and care but also to bridge the gap between the personal and the professional.
The Many Worlds Of Anglophone Literature
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Author : Silvia Anastasijevic
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2024-01-11
The Many Worlds Of Anglophone Literature written by Silvia Anastasijevic and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-01-11 with Literary Criticism categories.
On what terms and concepts can we ground the comparative study of Anglophone literatures and cultures around the world today? What, if anything, unites the novels of Witi Ihimaera, the speculative fiction of Nnedi Okorafor, the life-writings by Stuart Hall, and the emerging Anglophone Arab literature by writers like Omar Robert Hamilton? This volume explores the globality of Anglophone fiction both as a conceptual framing and as a literary imaginary. It highlights the diversity of lives and worlds represented in Anglophone writing, as well as the diverse imaginations of transnational connections articulated in it. Featuring a variety of internationally renowned scholars, this book thinks through Anglophone literature not as a problematic legacy of colonial rule or as exoticizing commodity in a global literary marketplace but examines it as an inherently transcultural literary medium. Contributors provide new insights into how it facilitates the articulation of divergent experiences of modernity and the critique of hierarchies and inequalities within, among, and beyond post-colonial societies.
Re Imagining The Nursing Home In Singapore
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Author : John Chye Fung
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2014
Re Imagining The Nursing Home In Singapore written by John Chye Fung and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014 with Hospitals, Convalescent categories.
The book is intended to be a reference for architects in Singapore who are looking to design future nursing homes. The book also includes eight case studies of local nursing homes and design templates for eldercare facilities.
Stories Of Ageing
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Author : Mike Hepworth
language : en
Publisher: Open University Press
Release Date : 2000
Stories Of Ageing written by Mike Hepworth and has been published by Open University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000 with Fiction categories.
"Stories of Ageing is a book combining sociological analysis, literature and a gerontological agenda. It opens up fiction as a resource for anyone interested in the process of growing old and is essential reading for all students, researchers and practitioners in the field."--BOOK JACKET.
Ethnicity And Old Age
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Author : Sandra Torres
language : en
Publisher: Policy Press
Release Date : 2019-04-17
Ethnicity And Old Age written by Sandra Torres and has been published by Policy Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-04-17 with Social Science categories.
Winner of the Richard Kalish Innovative Publication Award 2021. Part of the Ageing in a Global Context series, this book proposes a new research agenda for scholarship that focuses on ethnicity, race and old age. It argues that in a time of increased international migration, population ageing and ethno-cultural diversity, scholarly imagination must be expanded as current research frameworks are becoming obsolete. By bringing attention to the way that ethnicity and race have been addressed in research on ageing and old age, with a focus on health inequalities, health and social care, intergenerational relationships and caregiving, the book proposes how research can be developed in an ethnicity astute and diversity informed manner.