Aagje Swinnen
Biographic Data
| ID | 157274 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Aagje Swinnen |
| GIVEN NAMES | Aagje |
| FAMILY NAME | Swinnen |
| SIGNATURE | SWINNEN A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Maastricht University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Th Anniversary of Age, Culture, Humanities
This year, Age, Culture, Humanities launched its 10th issue, and we want to use this momentous occasion to look back and forward.
For ladies, 35 is check-out time”
This article offers an anocritical reading of Girls5eva, a sitcom about a 1990s one-hit girl group trying to make a comeback. Building on scholarship into the representation of aging women in popular media and the music industry, our reading first addresses fuzzy boundaries between life stages and transgressions of the normalized life course. Second, we examine the discourse of girl power and its relationship to midlife transformation. Third, we …
You Must Learn to Age
Studies about older people’s participation in artistic activities have increased. However, a deeper understanding of older artists’ adaptation to the ageing process is still lacking. The purposes of this study were to explore how older artists and craftspeople perceive age-related changes, and to examine their adaptations to these changes. We carried out in-depth, open-ended individual interviews with 30 visual artists and craftspeople aged 60 an…
A Sensory Gaze into Embodied, Material and Emplaced Meanings
Creative leisure occupations, such as arts and crafts, can give rise to meaningfulness. To date, much of what is known about meaningful occupations relates to verbalised meanings. This article assumes a sensory gaze to examine the tangible creative leisure occupations of three women in midlife. A sensory ethnographic approach comprising participant observation, a reflexive ethnography diary, and photo elicitation was augmented by semi-structured …
Film Review
A Postcritical Approach to Literary Aging Studies
Scholars in literary aging studies typically engage in oppositional readings that reveal the often-hidden age ideologies of texts while addressing points of exit from these ideologies. This form of research is ethical and political in that it aims to clarify cultural meanings of aging and how to negotiate and subvert them in a world characterized by structural and everyday ageism. Inspired by Rita Felski's plea not to go too far in our suspicion …
Ageivism Roundtable
In spite of the increased attention to the intersection of people’s various social, cultural, economic and political locations, the discriminations that come with old age are often neglected in gender studies. Some have even pointed to the inadvertent ageism in the field (e.g. Calasanti et al., 2006). While in social gerontology there is considerable attention to older women, this is not necessarily from a feminist or intersectional perspective, …
Writing to make ageing new’
This article presents the results of a study that examines how older professional writers experience and understand creativity in later life. In psychological, humanities' and gerontological approaches to ageing and creativity, this question is still under-explored. The study's data-set consists of transcriptions of lengthy interviews conducted in spring 2015 with five Dutch poets over 65 who have achieved some eminence in the field. By means of …
Mumbling Beauty
This article examines how Louise Bourgeois (1911–2010) plays with different modes of self-presentation in Mumbling Beauty (2015), a photo book consisting of 81 photographs of the artist taken in the final years of her life by Alex Van Gelder. I start by outlining connections and divergences between these self-presentations and interpretations of Bourgeois’ late style. As the portraits make the artist hypervisible as a much older vulnerable woman,…
Popularizing Dementia
Popularizing dementia. Public expressions and representations of forgetfulness
Everyone is Romeo and Juliet!” Staging dementia in Wellkåmm to Verona by Suzanne Osten
Everyone is Romeo and Juliet!” Staging dementia in Wellkåmm to Verona by Suzanne Osten
Writing to make ageing new’
This article presents the results of a study that examines how older professional writers experience and understand creativity in later life. In psychological, humanities' and gerontological approaches to ageing and creativity, this question is still under-explored. The study's data-set consists of transcriptions of lengthy interviews conducted in spring 2015 with five Dutch poets over 65 who have achieved some eminence in the field. By means of …
Everyone is Romeo and Juliet!” Staging dementia in Wellkåmm to Verona by Suzanne Osten
Popularizing Dementia
Popularizing dementia. Public expressions and representations of forgetfulness
Mumbling Beauty
This article examines how Louise Bourgeois (1911–2010) plays with different modes of self-presentation in Mumbling Beauty (2015), a photo book consisting of 81 photographs of the artist taken in the final years of her life by Alex Van Gelder. I start by outlining connections and divergences between these self-presentations and interpretations of Bourgeois’ late style. As the portraits make the artist hypervisible as a much older vulnerable woman,…
Writing to make ageing new’
This article presents the results of a study that examines how older professional writers experience and understand creativity in later life. In psychological, humanities' and gerontological approaches to ageing and creativity, this question is still under-explored. The study's data-set consists of transcriptions of lengthy interviews conducted in spring 2015 with five Dutch poets over 65 who have achieved some eminence in the field. By means of …
Ageivism Roundtable
In spite of the increased attention to the intersection of people’s various social, cultural, economic and political locations, the discriminations that come with old age are often neglected in gender studies. Some have even pointed to the inadvertent ageism in the field (e.g. Calasanti et al., 2006). While in social gerontology there is considerable attention to older women, this is not necessarily from a feminist or intersectional perspective, …
A Sensory Gaze into Embodied, Material and Emplaced Meanings
Creative leisure occupations, such as arts and crafts, can give rise to meaningfulness. To date, much of what is known about meaningful occupations relates to verbalised meanings. This article assumes a sensory gaze to examine the tangible creative leisure occupations of three women in midlife. A sensory ethnographic approach comprising participant observation, a reflexive ethnography diary, and photo elicitation was augmented by semi-structured …
Film Review
A Postcritical Approach to Literary Aging Studies
Scholars in literary aging studies typically engage in oppositional readings that reveal the often-hidden age ideologies of texts while addressing points of exit from these ideologies. This form of research is ethical and political in that it aims to clarify cultural meanings of aging and how to negotiate and subvert them in a world characterized by structural and everyday ageism. Inspired by Rita Felski's plea not to go too far in our suspicion …
You Must Learn to Age
Studies about older people’s participation in artistic activities have increased. However, a deeper understanding of older artists’ adaptation to the ageing process is still lacking. The purposes of this study were to explore how older artists and craftspeople perceive age-related changes, and to examine their adaptations to these changes. We carried out in-depth, open-ended individual interviews with 30 visual artists and craftspeople aged 60 an…
For ladies, 35 is check-out time”
This article offers an anocritical reading of Girls5eva, a sitcom about a 1990s one-hit girl group trying to make a comeback. Building on scholarship into the representation of aging women in popular media and the music industry, our reading first addresses fuzzy boundaries between life stages and transgressions of the normalized life course. Second, we examine the discourse of girl power and its relationship to midlife transformation. Third, we …
Th Anniversary of Age, Culture, Humanities
This year, Age, Culture, Humanities launched its 10th issue, and we want to use this momentous occasion to look back and forward.
Psychology (7 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Art (6 works) · Aesthetics (4 works) · Aging and Gerontology Research (4 works) · Medicine (4 works) · Politics (3 works) · Visual arts (3 works) · Anthropology (2 works) · Dementia (2 works)