Framing Ageing -

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Résumé :
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 both showcases new scholarship and provides new methods and concepts 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 doing so, in addition to examining literary texts, this volume carries out innovative analyses of visual material including sculpture, buildings, photographs, from fine art to amateur production and commercial images. Framing Ageing 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. 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.

Biographie:
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.

Sommaire:
Langbein, Fuchs, and Cosgrove: Introduction Desmond O'Neill: 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 Wardrop's Cocooned (2021) Section V. The Social Imaginary: History and the Public Face of Old Age 14. David Troyanski, JR's Wrinkles of the City' Project: Representing Global Old Age, 2008-2015 15. Mary Cosgrove, The Meaning of Middle Age in Ter?zia Mora's Darius-Kopp Trilogy 16. Julia Langbein, Born Old: The 'Discovery' of a Lost Generation of Black American Artists and their Challenge to Late Style