Representing Ageing: Images and Identities - Rilegato

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ISBN 10: 0230272592 ISBN 13: 9780230272590

Casa editrice: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012

Riassunto

This collection critically examines twenty-first century representations of ageing, focusing on various media images and discourses as well as individuals' own experiences and self-presentations of ageing, drawing on innovative new empirical data.

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Informazioni sull?autore

JOANNA BORNAT Emeritus Professor of Oral History at The Open University, UK BILL BYTHEWAY Member of the Academy of Social Sciences and a Founding Fellow of the British Society of Gerontology, UK TONI CALASANTI Professor in the Sociology Department at Virginia Tech, USA CHIN-HUI CHEN Research at Cardiff University, UK EILEEN FAIRHURST Professor in Public Health at the University of Salford, UK CAROLINE HOLLAND Research Fellow at the Faculty of Health and Social Care, The Open University, UK LAURA HURD CLARKE Associate Professor of Sociology in the School of Kinesiology at the University of British Columbia, Canada NEAL KING Associate Professor of Sociology at Virginia Tech, USA ALEXANDRA KOROTCHENKO Researcher in the School of Kinesiology at the University of British Columbia, Canada KARIN LÖVGREN Postdoctoral Researcher at Umeå University, Sweden KIRSI LUMME-SANDT Researcher and Coordinator of Doctoral Programmes in Public Health at the School of Health Sciences, University of Tampere,Finland NAOMI RICHARDS Research Associate at the University of Sheffield, UK SHAKUNTALA SODEN Researcher at Roehampton University, UK AMY SORENSEN Post-Doctoral Research Associate in the Department of Disability and Human Development at the University of Illinois at Chicago, USA EMMANUELLE TULLE Senior Lecturer in Sociology at Glasgow Caledonian University, UK JULIA TWIGG Professor of Social Policy and Sociology at the University of Kent, UK HANNA UOTILA Researcher and doctoral candidate at the School of Health Sciences, University of Tampere, Finland LORNA WARREN Senior Lecturer in Social Policy at the University of Sheffield, UK RICHARD WARD Project Worker in Ageing and Mental Health at Manchester University and Greater Manchester West Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust, UK

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Palgrave Macmillan
• Data di pubblicazione: 2012
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0230272592
• ISBN 13: 9780230272590
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 258
• Redattore: Ylänne V.
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