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View article: <scp>EMBODYING AND RESISTING URBAN HEAT INJUSTICE</scp> : Migrant Vulnerabilities and Radical Adaptations in El Raval, Barcelona
<span>EMBODYING AND RESISTING URBAN HEAT INJUSTICE</span> : Migrant Vulnerabilities and Radical Adaptations in El Raval, Barcelona Open
Heat is a central concern for many cities whose efforts for adaptation tend to reproduce inequities. While community‐led adaptation has been considered key for enhancing just outcomes, how migrants from majority world countries are in‐ or …
View article: Tales from the photovoice clinic: Menopause experiences of Black and Chinese women in the United Kingdom
Tales from the photovoice clinic: Menopause experiences of Black and Chinese women in the United Kingdom Open
Background Menopause is one of many critical life course points that may require intervention in relation to lifestyle changes, health and wellbeing. It is therefore important that menopausal women are supported especially considering poss…
View article: The relationship between frailty, ethnicity and health inequality – a scoping review
The relationship between frailty, ethnicity and health inequality – a scoping review Open
This scoping review highlights the need for research to address the intersectional relationship between racialisation, health inequality and frailty in older age. We map research addressing the relationship between frailty and ethnicity ac…
View article: Diversity and “Successful Aging”: Exploring Intersectional and Existential Dimensions to Aging Well
Diversity and “Successful Aging”: Exploring Intersectional and Existential Dimensions to Aging Well Open
Background and Objectives This article aims to add to the literature on successful aging in minoritized ethnic groups. Concurring with the critiques of “successful aging” for focusing on values and abilities more attainable by White middle…
View article: What Frailty Can Tell Us About Successful Ageing: Towards a Different Paradigm for Ageing Well
What Frailty Can Tell Us About Successful Ageing: Towards a Different Paradigm for Ageing Well Open
This paper considers the concept of successful aging by means of a dialogue with the concept of frailty. This dialogue reveals the limits and blind spots of both concepts as well as their apparent dichotomy and the importance of understand…
View article: The Red Dressing Gown
The Red Dressing Gown Open
This article explores Beauvoir’s evolving attitude toward aging and old age, specifically the shift from a fear and horror of aging toward a positive acceptance, and links this transformation to the death of her mother. It suggests that Be…
View article: Persephone at Mid-Life: Revisiting Feminist Archetypal Theory in a Personal Journey Through Menopause
Persephone at Mid-Life: Revisiting Feminist Archetypal Theory in a Personal Journey Through Menopause Open
This article suggests that feminist archetypal theory provides a helpful and empowering framework through which to understand embodied change as experienced in contemporary times. A mainstream approach associated with second-wave feminism,…
View article: Neither the Third Nor the Fourth Age: Viewing Old Age Through the Philosophical Lens of Ambiguity
Neither the Third Nor the Fourth Age: Viewing Old Age Through the Philosophical Lens of Ambiguity Open
This paper argues that the philosophy of ambiguity, associated with Maurice Merleau-Ponty and Simone de Beauvoir, provides a helpful framework for understanding the complex and paradoxical nature of old age outside the dominant categories …
View article: Geriatrics and Ageing in the Soviet Union
Geriatrics and Ageing in the Soviet Union Open
This open access book brings together an eclectic cast of scholars in related disciplines to examine ageing in the Soviet Union, covering the practice of geriatrics, the science of gerontology, and the experience of growing old. Chapters i…
View article: Prelims
Prelims Open
Citation (2022), "Prelims", Boydell, V. and Dow, K. (Ed.) Technologies of Reproduction Across the Lifecourse (Emerald Studies in Reproduction, Culture and Society), Emerald Publishing Limited, Bingley, pp. i-xxi. https://doi.org/10.1108/97…
View article: Exploring Ageism as a Structure of Consciousness Across the Female Life Course Through the Work of Simone de Beauvoir
Exploring Ageism as a Structure of Consciousness Across the Female Life Course Through the Work of Simone de Beauvoir Open
Drawing on the work of Simone de Beauvoir, this paper considers ageism as a structure of consciousness, with important convergences with, as well as departures from, those associated with gender. Specifically, it explores the double consci…
View article: Age-Related Digital Divide during the COVID-19 Pandemic in China
Age-Related Digital Divide during the COVID-19 Pandemic in China Open
China has adopted a variety of digital technologies to effectively combat the unprecedented COVID-19 pandemic. The massive utilisation of digital technologies, however, to a great extent, magnifies the age-related digital divide. This pape…
View article: New horizons in frailty: the contingent, the existential and the clinical
New horizons in frailty: the contingent, the existential and the clinical Open
In the past decade, frailty research has focused on refinement of biomedical tools and operationalisations, potentially introducing a reductionist approach. This article suggests that a new horizon in frailty lies in a more holistic approa…
View article: GENDERING THIRD AND FOURTH AGE THEORIES: THE ROLE OF THE HAG
GENDERING THIRD AND FOURTH AGE THEORIES: THE ROLE OF THE HAG Open
In this paper I look at the third and fourth ages through a gendered lens. I show how negative representations of ageing femininity, which have a long historical lineage across a range of media, persist in a variety of new and old ways in …
View article: Health, illness and frailty in old age: a phenomenological exploration
Health, illness and frailty in old age: a phenomenological exploration Open
The aim of this paper is to subject the clinical classification of frailty to scrutiny through exploring, via a phenomenological lens, the lived experiences of older people who meet the objective, or clinical, criteria of frailty. Drawing …
View article: Age War as the New Class War? Contemporary Representations of Intergenerational Inequity
Age War as the New Class War? Contemporary Representations of Intergenerational Inequity Open
This paper examines intergenerational justice discourses that feature prominently in both the contemporary UK media and beyond, arguing that these constitute both a continuation of previous debates about the economic and social burden of t…
View article: Time, Age, Change
Time, Age, Change Open
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View article: REPRESENTING OLD AGE IN THE MEDIA AND POPULAR DISCOURSE
REPRESENTING OLD AGE IN THE MEDIA AND POPULAR DISCOURSE Open
This paper looks at representations of old age in the media, policy and medicine and their role in shaping the role and meaning of old age more generally. Taking a historical view, it traces the bifurcation of good and bad old age into tod…
View article: Age Studies: A Sociological Examination of How We Age and are Aged throughthe Life Course
Age Studies: A Sociological Examination of How We Age and are Aged throughthe Life Course Open
Some thoughts on education and political priorities