The taking place of older age
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2406575 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Amy Barron (0000-0003-2547-9305, The University of Manchester, UK, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2021 |
| Volume | 28 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 661-674 |
| Publication date | 2021-10-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Cultural Geographies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1474-4740 • E-ISSN: 1477-0881 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/14744740211020510 |
| OpenAlex | W3172924016 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 13 |
Representations of older age are often reductive in western societies, portrayed as a distinct period of life characterised by social disengagement and physiological decline. Through rich ethnographic accounts developed with older people from Greater Manchester UK, this paper is concerned with how the category of older age is made through representations, and the different ways people encounter and relate to it. In doing so, it disrupts reductive representations by considering how older age is lived. I respond to calls for the incorporation of more-than-representational and affective approaches into the geographic study of older age to advance research on ageing and highlight affect as a useful concept for thinking through difference. The paper is concerned with how older people are represented, with how representations differentially affect and are affected by older individuals, and with how representations of older age are performed and folded into lived accounts. More-than-representational theories offer an understanding of older age that is not pre-given or free-standing, but as something which can emerge, gather and disperse in relation with materialities as well as diffuse atmospheres, affects and emotional resonances
Aesthetics · Affect (linguistics · Age groups · Art · Cognitive psychology · Developmental psychology · Disengagement theory · Ethnography · Mobilities · Older people · Period (music · Social science · Sociology · Aging and Gerontology Research · Anthropology · Communication · Demography · Gender Studies · Migration, Aging, and Tourism Studies · Participatory Visual Research Methods · Psychology · Social Psychology · Gerontology
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| Citations per year | 3.25 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2022 - 2026 (5) |
| Highly cited | No |