Routledge Handbook of Cultural Gerontology

1. Revisiting Cultural Gerontology: Exploring the Landscape Ten Years On

Julia Twigg and Wendy Martin

PART 1: THE POLITICS AND THEORISING OF AGEING

 2. From Successful Ageing to Ageing Well

Susan Pickard

3. The Cultural Turn in Gerontology

Chris Gilleard and Paul Higgs

4.Transitions and Time in an Unstable Context

Amanda Grenier

5. Global and Local Ties and the Reconstruction of Later Life

Chris Phillipson

6. Money and Finance in Later Life

Hayley James  

7.The Civic Culture in Ageing Societies

Gemma M. Carney

8. Aged by Culture in the New COVID Era  

Margaret Morganroth Gullette

9. Intersectionality and Paradoxes of Inequality 

Neal King and Toni Calasanti

10. Culture, Ethnicity, Race, and Migrancy

Sandra Torres

11. The Race(ing) of Ageing Studies: Disrupting the Veil of Whiteness

Sweta Rajan-Rankin

12. Indigenous Elders, Older Adults, and Ageing

Sandy Grande

13. Beyond the View of the West: Ageing Anthropology

Sarah Lamb

PART 2: MATERIALITY AND EMBODIMENT

14. Theorising Embodiment and Ageing

Emmanuelle Tulle

15. An Intersectional Consideration of Ageing and the Body 

Laura Hurd and Erica V. Bennett

16. Sex, Sexuality and Later Life

Linn J. Sandberg

17. The Smile in Older Age

Lorna Warren, Jennifer Kettle and Barry Gibson

18. Dress and Age

Julia Twigg

19. Materiality and Ageing 

Anna Wanka and Vera Gallistl

20. Architectural Imaginaries and Cultures of Care in Later Life  

Sarah Nettleton, Christina Buse and Daryl Martin

21. Meanings of Home and Age

Sheila Peace

22. Gardens and Gardening in Later Life

Christine Milligan and Amanda Bingley

23. Cemeteries and Age

Allison Kirkman

24. Ageing, Physical Activity and Sport

Cassandra Phoenix and Meredith Griffin

PART 3: CULTURES OF CARE

25. Cultures of Care

Michael Fine

26. Personhood and the Dilemmas of Dementia Care

Stephen Katz and Annette Leibing

27. Dementia and Embodiment

Pia Kontos 

28. The Fourth Age

Liz Lloyd

29. Loneliness and Isolation

Christina Victor and Mary Pat Sullivan 

30. Suffering and Pain in Old Age

Kate de Medeiros and Helen K. Black

31. Medical Humanities and Cultural Gerontology  

Desmond O’Neill

PART 4: IDENTITIES AND SOCIAL RELATIONSHIPS

32. Anti-Ageing and Identities

Barbara L. Marshall

33. Representations of Ageing in the Media

Virpi Ylänne

34. Youth Culture, Ageing and Identity

Andy Bennett

35. Gender: Some Implications of a Contested Concept and Area of Social Life

Jeff Hearn and Sharon Wray

36. Queering Cultural Gerontology  

Maya R. Chew and Andrew King

37. Ethnographies of Ageing

Cathrine Degnen

38. The Value of Religion, Spirituality, and Humanism to Older People

Holly Nelson-Becker and Joseph G. Pickard

39. Ageing Workers

Katrina Pritchard, Rebecca Whiting and Cara Reed

40. Lifestyle Migration, Ageing, and the Meaning of Relative Privilege

Karen O’Reilly and Michaela Benson  

41. Widowhood and its Cultural Representations

Anne Martin-Matthews and Catherine E. Tong

42. Ageing and Biographical Methods

Joanna Bornat

PART 5: ARTS AND TECHNOLOGIES

43. Art, Ageing, and the Gendered Body

Michelle Meagher

44. Literature and Age

Sarah Falcus

45. Ageing in Film

Aagje Swinnen 

46. Visual Methods in Ageing Research

Wendy Martin 

47. Celebrity Culture and Ageing

Kirsty Fairclough

48. Ageing and Popular Music 

Abigail Gardner

49. Rethinking Late-Life Creativity: Beyond ‘Late Style’

David Amigoni and Gordon McMullan

50. Ageing Playfully

Carrie Ryan

51. From Chronological Age to Biomarkers of Ageing: A Historical Cultural Sociology

Tiago Moreira

52. Science, Technology and Ageing

Kelly Joyce, Meika Loe and Lauren Diamond-Brown  

53. The Co-Constitution of Ageing and Technology in a Cultural Context

Louis Neven and Alex Peine

Biography

Julia Twigg is Emeritus Professor of Social Policy and Sociology at the University of Kent, UK. She has written widely on the subjects of age, care, embodiment and fashion. Most recently her work has focussed on the cultural constitution of age. She has published a number of books including Bathing, the Body and Community Care, The Body in Social and Health Care and Fashion and Age: Dress, the Body and Later Life. She is a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences and in 2016 was awarded the British Society of Gerontology Outstanding Achievement Award.

Wendy Martin is Senior Lecturer and Director of Research in the Department of Health Sciences, Brunel University of London. Her research focuses on ageing, embodiment, the digital and everyday life and the use of visual methods in ageing research. She was Principal Investigator for ESRC research project Photographing Everyday Life, is Co-Investigator for UKRI Ageing Development Award Sound, Environment and Ageing and for the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada international partnership Aging in Data. Wendy is Co-Editor of Socio-gerontechnology: Interdisciplinary Critical Studies of Ageing and Technology and is on the editorial boards for Ageing and Society and Journal of Global Ageing.