Framing Ageing, available open access, addresses scholars from across the Humanities and Social Sciences who want to approach the urgent topic of old age in their work, mapping the intellectual state of the field and putting the most salient concepts in action.
Bringing together established and emerging scholars of old age from the humanities and social sciences as well as gerontologists and medical practitioners, this open access book showcases new scholarship and provides new methods and terms for ongoing conversations about old age as an object of analysis in contemporary culture.
Cultural policy makers and scholars alike regularly describe a “visibility crisis” of old age, a consistent erasure or repression of images of older people from public view. Co-edited by an art historian and two literary scholars with a shared interest in memory, Framing Ageing examines the in/visibility of old age from a range of disciplinary angles, including philosophy, social history, comparative literature and anthropology. In addition to examining literary texts, this volume includes a chapter in graphic form and carries out innovative analyses of film, the built environment, fine art and commercial images.
The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by The Wellcome Trust.
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This is an important collection that begins to establish what the editors call a lyric gerontology. It is an ambitious and highly interdisciplinary volume that brings together fields including psychology, literary studies and ethics. * Sarah Falcus, Reader in Contemporary Literature, University of Huddersfield, UK *
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Very interdisciplinary in its approach, this book both showcases new scholarship and provides new methods and concepts for ongoing conversations about old age as an object of analysis in contemporary culture.
Langbein, Fuchs, and Cosgrove: Introduction
Desmond ONeill: Cultural Gerontology at the Intersection
Section I. The Open Body: Resisting Biomedical Old Age
1. Robert Zwinjenberg: Ageing, Biomedicine and the Risk of Life
2. Linda Shortt: (Un)Fit Ageing: Hermann Kinder and the Ageing Male
3. Aleida Assmann, On Wisdom
Section II. The Everyday: Locating Complexity in Old Age
4. Wendy Martin: Ageing, Materiality, and Everyday Life
5. Anne Fuchs, Gender, the Politics of Looking, and the Narration of Old
Age: Elizabeth
Strout's Empathetic Realism in Olive, Again
6. Andrew King, Reframing LGBT+ Ageing in Challenging Times
Section III. The Language of Ageing: Critical Reading Across Disciplines
7. Ulla Kriebernegg, Growing Old Amid Climate Change: Dystopian Narratives
of
Vulnerability and Resistance
8. Gillian Pye, Well-Being and Happiness in Care Home Narratives
9. Susan Pickard, Gender, Sexuality, and The Double-Standard of Ageing in
Later Life
10. Moise Roche: Race, Ethnicity, Culture, and Later Life: Problematic
Categorisations and
Definitions
Section IV. Intimacy and Experience: Alternative Analyses of Ageing
11. Dana Walrath: Between Alice and the Eagle: Dementia Journeys and the
Final Breath
12. Ailbhe Smith, Unseen, Unheard, Untouched: A View from the Interior
13. Helen Doherty, Heard and Seen: Distance and Proximity in Ken Wardrops
Cocooned
(2021)
Section V. The Social Imaginary: History and the Public Face of Old Age
14. David Troyanski, JRs Wrinkles of the City Project: Representing Global
Old Age,
2008-2015
15. Mary Cosgrove, The Meaning of Middle Age in Terézia Moras Darius-Kopp
Trilogy
16. Julia Langbein, Born Old: The Discovery of a Lost Generation of Black
American
Artists and their Challenge to Late Style
Anne Fuchs is Professor and Director of the Humanities Institute at University College Dublin, Ireland. Julia Langbein is Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Medical Gerontology at Trinity College Dublin, Ireland. Mary Cosgrove is Professor of German and Humanities at Trinity College Dublin, Ireland.
