Full Description
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 research and research methods, reflects on changes in the field since the first edition and examines future directions.
With contributions from new and established authors in the field, the Handbook offers a lively, interdisciplinary survey of five key, interconnected areas: the politics and theorising of ageing; materiality and embodiment; cultures of care; identities, relationships and consumption; and arts and technologies. Chapters traverse intellectual and empirical boundaries, examining perceptions and experiences of growing older, the deconstruction of definitions and understandings of age, and the way culture is constitutive of social relations and identities. This second revised edition considers the changing technological and digital landscape of older people, new contexts and new forms of ageism, discrimination and marginalisation, diverse ways to research age and ageing, and new and enhanced methodologies around the digital, creative and material. Contributions from across the arts and humanities extend into new areas of life - clothing, hair, travel, consumption, gardening - and draw on indigenous, postcolonial, new materialism and post-humanism perspectives.
The Routledge Handbook of Cultural Gerontology captures the field's past, present and future in widening the social gerontological imaginary, and bringing 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.
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
