Representing Ageing: Images and Identities - Brossura

Brossura

ISBN 10: 1349323403 ISBN 13: 9781349323401

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, UKBILL BYTHEWAY Member of the Academy of Social Sciences and a Founding Fellow of the British Society of Gerontology, UKTONI CALASANTI Professor in the Sociology Department at Virginia Tech, USACHIN-HUI CHEN Research at Cardiff University, UKEILEEN FAIRHURST Professor in Public Health at the University of Salford, UKCAROLINE HOLLAND Research Fellow at the Faculty of Health and Social Care, The Open University, UKLAURA HURD CLARKE Associate Professor of Sociology in the School of Kinesiology at the University of British Columbia, CanadaNEAL KING Associate Professor of Sociology at Virginia Tech, USAALEXANDRA KOROTCHENKO Researcher in the School of Kinesiology at the University of British Columbia, CanadaKARIN LÖVGREN Postdoctoral Researcher at Umeå University, SwedenKIRSI LUMME-SANDT Researcher and Coordinator of Doctoral Programmes in Public Health at the School of Health Sciences, University of Tampere, FinlandNAOMI RICHARDS Research Associate at the University of Sheffield, UKSHAKUNTALA SODEN Researcher at Roehampton University, UKAMY SORENSEN Post-Doctoral Research Associate in the Department of Disability and Human Development at the University of Illinois at Chicago, USAEMMANUELLE TULLE Senior Lecturer in Sociology at Glasgow Caledonian University, UKJULIA TWIGG Professor of Social Policy and Sociology at the University of Kent, UKHANNA UOTILA Researcher and doctoral candidate at the School of Health Sciences, University of Tampere, FinlandLORNA WARREN Senior Lecturer in Social Policy at the University of Sheffield, UKRICHARD 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: 1349323403
• ISBN 13: 9781349323401
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 276
• Redattore: Ylänne V.
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