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Ageing in Everyday Life: Materialities and Embodiments (Ageing in a Global Context) by Stephen Katz (editor) is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

What is Ageing in Everyday Life: Materialities and Embodiments (Ageing in a Global Context) about?

This book is a timely collection of interdisciplinary and critical chapters about the fields of ageing studies and the sociology of everyday life as broadly conceived to explore the meaningful connections between subjective lives and social worlds in later life. The scope of the writing expands beyond traditional approaches in these fields to engage with cross-cultural, feminist, spatial, ethnographic, technological, cinematic, new media and arts research. Readers will find the detailed attention to everyday experiences, places, biographies, images, routines, intimacies and temporalities illuminating, while appreciating the wider critiques of ageism and exclusion that inform each chapter. The book also contributes to the growing international area of ‘critical gerontology’ by comprising two parts on ‘materialities’ and ‘embodiments’, foci that emphasize the material and embodied contexts that shape the experiences of ageing. The chapters on ‘materialities’ investigate things, possessions, homes, technologies, environments, and their representations, while the complementary chapters on ‘embodiments’ examine living spaces, clothing, care practices, mobility, touch, gender and sexuali

Who reads Ageing in Everyday Life: Materialities and Embodiments (Ageing in a Global Context)?

Author

Stephen Katz (editor)

Publisher

Bristol University Press

Published

2018

Language

EN

ISBN

9781447335962

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Sociology, Science, Gender Studies