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Framing Age: Contested Knowledge in Science and Politics book cover

1st Edition

Framing Age Contested Knowledge in Science and Politics

Edited By Iris Loffeier, Benoît Majerus, Thibauld Moulaert Copyright 2017
260 Pages 20 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

260 Pages 20 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

260 Pages 20 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge
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Ageing populations have gradually become a major concern in many industrialised countries over the past fifty years, drawing the attention of both politics and science. The target of a raft of health and social policies, older people are often identified as a specific, and vulnerable, population. At the same time, ageing has become a specialisation in many disciplines - medicine, sociology,... Read more

Introduction

Iris Loffeier, Benoît Majerus and Thibauld Moulaert

Part 1: Future at the Heart of the Ageing Region

1. Demographic Change as Dystopia: Contemporary German Discourses on Ageing, between Science and Politics 

Reinhardt Messerschmidt

2. Recommendations Concerning the Use of Physical Exercise to Improve the Wellbeing of Older People in France

Cécile Collinet and Matthieu Delalandre

3. ‘Regimes of Hope’ in Planning Later Life: Medical Optimism in the Field of Anti-Ageing Medicine 

Mark Schweda and Larissa Pfaller

Part 2: Defining Boundaries, Defining Insiders and Outsiders

4. Nationalism and the Moral Economy of Ageing  

Magnus Nilsson

5. Sexual Assistance, Suicide Assistance and the Condition of Dependent Older Adult 

Alexandre Lambelet

6. Toward a Biopolitics of Old Age: Vulnerability and Ageing in Postwar France  

Richard C. Keller

Part 3: Bridges Between Science and Policy

7. Connecting Categories: Age, Gender and Archaeologies of Knowledge 

Nicole Kramer

8. The Breakdown of Consensus on Pro-Natalist Policies: Media Discourse, Social Research and a New Demographic Agreement

Antía Pérez-Caramés

9. The Social Construction of Dependency: Controversies in France Around an Assessment Instrument in France 

Nicolas Belorgey

Part 4: Experiencing, Playing, Shifting Boundaries

10. Discerning Ageing in Relation to the Law? Debates on the Legal Framework of Freedom of Movement of the Elderly in France between 2004 and 2015

Lucie Lechevalier Hurard and Benoît Eyraud,

11. Different Initial Training, Different Professional Practices? Latitude and Interprofessionality in Dependency Assessment

Jingyue Xing and Solène Billaud 

12. Shaping Old Age: Innovation Partnerships, Senior Centres and Billiards Tables as Active Ageing Technologies

Aske Juul Lassen

Biography

Iris Loffeier is a permanent Research Fellow in Sociology at HESAV (Haute École de Santé Vaud), Lausanne, Switzerland.

Benoît Majerus is an Associate Professor at the University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg.

Thibauld Moulaert is Associate Professor at the Université de Grenoble-Alpes, France.

'Framing Age is a lively collection of twelve chapters by international scholars who explore the intersectional and fragmented knowledges, policies, sciences, ethics, and cultures of ageing that shape public understanding of population politics today. The combined research leaves readers with an accessible but critical vision of the boundaries by which we negotiate inclusion and exclusion, ageing and anti-ageing, and self and society. Kudos to editors Thibauld Moulaert, Benoît Majerus and Iris Loffeier for bringing forth this masterful and timely text.' - Stephen Katz, Trent University, Canada

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