Aging Studies – serie
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21 produkter
Women Over 70
Reimagining Aging, Place, and Possibilities
Av Catherine Marienau, Gail Zelitzky
Häftad, 2026
412 kr
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Women Over 70
Reimagining Aging, Place, and Possibilities
Av Catherine Marienau, Gail Zelitzky
Inbunden, 2026
529 kr
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Popularizing Dementia
Public Expressions and Representations of Forgetfulness
Av Aagje Swinnen, Mark Schweda
Häftad, 2015
590 kr
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How are individual and social ideas of late-onset dementia shaped and negotiated in film, literature, the arts, and the media? And how can the symbolic forms provided by popular culture be adopted and transformed by those affected in order to express their own perspectives? This international and …
Ageing and Technology
Perspectives from the Social Sciences
Av Emma Domínguez-Rué, Linda Nierling
Häftad, 2016
563 kr
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The booming increase of the senior population has become a social phenomenon and a challenge to our societies, and technological advances have undoubtedly contributed to improve the lives of elderly citizens in numerous aspects. In current debates on technology, however, the »human factor« is often …
Aging in Slavic Literatures – Essays in Literary Gerontology
Av Dagmar Gramshammer–hoh, Dagmar Gramshammer-Hohl
Häftad, 2021
646 kr
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In Slavic studies, aging and old age have thus far been only marginal concerns. This volume brings together the scattered research that has been done up to now on aging as represented and narrated in Slavic literatures. The essays investigate Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian, Polish, Russian, Slovak, …
Serializing Age
Aging and Old Age in TV Series
Av Maricel Oró-Piqueras, Anita Wohlmann
Häftad, 2015
603 kr
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Serialized storytelling provides intriguing opportunities for critical representations of age and aging. In contrast to the finite character of films, television narratives can unfold across hundreds of episodes and multiple seasons. Contemporary viewing practices and new media technologies have …
Traces of Aging
Old Age and Memory in Contemporary Narrative
Av Marta Cerezo Moreno, Nieves Pascual Soler
Häftad, 2016
544 kr
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This collection consists of eight essays that examine the way narratives determine our understanding of old age and condition how the experience is lived. Contributors to this volume have based their analysis on the concept of »narrative identity« developed by Paul Ricoeur, built upon the idea that …
Senior Moment
Cultural Mediations of Memory and Ageing
Av Line Grenier, Fannie Valois-Nadeau
Häftad, 2020
402 kr
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Ageing and Memory are two cultural processes that establish their own relationships with time. They affect our ways of living, in the present, and for a future, as we move through life. This book focuses on the cultural mediations of ageing and memory, teasing out their complex and largely …
Senior Tourism
Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Aging and Traveling
Av Simone Francescato, Roberta Maierhofer m. fl.
Häftad, 2017
523 kr
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This volume aims to bridge the disciplinary gap between tourism studies and aging studies. It investigates the intersections of tourism and aging from a variety of perspectives that focus on the many ways in which senior tourism is socially constructed and/or individually experienced. The essays …
Care Home Stories – Aging, Disability, and Long–Term Residential Care
Av Sally Chivers, Ulla Kriebernegg m. fl.
Häftad, 2021
714 kr
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Institutional care for seniors offers a cultural repository for fears and hopes about an aging population. Although enormous changes have occurred in how institutional care is structured, the legacies of the poorhouse still persist, creating panicked views of the nursing home as a dreaded fate. The …
Embodied Narration – Illness, Death, and Dying in Modern Culture
Av Heike Hartung, Heike Hartung
Häftad, 2021
418 kr
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Do liminal embodied experiences such as illness, death and dying affect literary form? In recent years, the concept of embodiment has been theorized from various perspectives. Gender studies have been concerned with the cultural implications of embodiment, arguing to move away from viewing the body …
Re–discovering Age(ing) – Narratives of Mentorship
Av Núria Casado–gual, Emma Domínguez–rué m. fl.
Häftad, 2021
592 kr
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Since Mentor, Telemachus' advisor in Homer's Odyssey, gave name to the figure of the ›wise teacher,‹ fictional representations of mentoring have permeated classic and contemporary cultural texts of different literary genres such as fiction, poetry, and life writing. The contributions of this volume …
Aging and Self–Realization – Cultural Narratives about Later Life
Häftad, 2021
743 kr
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Dominant cultural narratives about later life dismiss the value senior citizens hold for society. In her cultural-philosophical critique, Hanne Laceulle outlines counter narratives that acknowledge both potentials and vulnerabilities of later life. She draws on the rich philosophical tradition of …
Imagining Ageing – Representations of Age and Ageing in Anglophone Literatures
Av Carmen Concilio, Carmen Concilio
Häftad, 2021
501 kr
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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, …
Foreign Countries of Old Age – East and Southeast European Perspectives on Aging
Av Dagmar Gramshammer–hoh, Oana Ursulesku m. fl.
Häftad, 2021
1012 kr
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The exploration of what May Sarton calls the »foreign country of old age« usually does not go far beyond the familiar: the focus of aging studies has thus far clearly rested upon North America and Western Europe. This multi-disciplinary essay collection critically examines conditions and …
Empowering the Elderly? – How "Help to Self–Help" Health Interventions Shape Ageing and Eldercare in Denmark
Häftad, 2021
439 kr
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Health programmes that offer ›help to self-help‹ are meant to empower ageing adults to remain independent and self-sufficient at home for as long as possible. But what happens when the private home becomes a political realm in which state intervention and individual agency happen simultaneously? …
Gender and Age/Aging in Popular Culture
Representations in Film, Music, Literature and Social Media
Av Nicole Haring, Roberta Maierhofer m. fl.
Häftad, 2023
743 kr
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As social spaces are culturally diverse and digitally networked, the reality of our lives is shaped by processes of globalization and digitization. This leads to the question of whether popular cultures enable or impede (inter-)cultural exchange and global communication. To explore this, the …
Extraordinary Forms of Aging
Life Narratives of Centenarians and Children with Progeria
Av Julia Velten
Häftad, 2022
924 kr
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While aging and the life-course appear to be normalized processes, the complex construction of age at the intersection of biology, society, and culture remains opaque. This study contributes to a deeper understanding of age(ing) by exploring its construction through the analysis of extraordinary …
Masculinities Ageing between Cultures
Relationality, Kinship and Care in Dialogue
Av Heike Hartung, Roberta Maierhofer m. fl.
Häftad, 2024
743 kr
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Global mobility is one of the crucial phenomena of our time. Combining the theoretical frameworks of masculinity studies and age studies, the contributors to this volume examine the intersection of cultural exchange, gender and age, exploring ageing masculinities with reference to the key concepts …
Cultures of Aging in a Globalized World
Approaches from Transnational American Studies
Av Julia Velten, Ruth Gehrmann m. fl.
Häftad, 2026
950 kr
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What does aging mean in a globalized world torn between imperatives of success and fears of decline? The contributors bring together a variety of perspectives and approaches regarding the conceptualization of age between narratives of successful aging and decline. Drawing from the rich field of …
