The AgingDisability Nexus (Disability Culture and Politics)

Aubrecht, Katie

ISBN 10: 0774863676 / ISBN 13: 9780774863674

Verlag: UBC Press, 2020

. 2020. Hardcover. . . . . Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers V9780774863674

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<div>As the global population ages, disability demographics are shifting. Societal change and global health inequities have changed who is likely to live to old age and who is likely to live with disability in a variety of sociocultural and geopolitical contexts. One thing is clear: aging is a pressing issue across the Western world and will become more so in the years ahead. <i>The Aging&#8211;Disability Nexus</i> breaks new ground by bringing gerontology and disability studies into dialogue with each other. This thoughtful examination of competing narratives about aging and disability employs a variety of empirical, conceptual, and pedagogical approaches. Contributors explore the tensions that shape how disability and aging are understood, experienced, and responded to at both individual and systemic levels, while avoiding the common tendency to conflate these overlapping elements and map them onto a normative, faulty notion of the human life.</div>

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor: <div><b>Katie Aubrecht</b> is Canada Research Chair in health equity and social justice, director of the Spatializing Care: Intersectional Disability Studies Lab, and assistant professor of sociology at St. Francis Xavier University. <b>Christine Kelly</b> is assistant professor of community health sciences and a research affiliate with the Centre on Aging at the University of Manitoba. She is a co-editor of <i>Mobilizing Metaphor: Art, Culture, and Disability Activism in Canada</i> and author of <i>Disability Politics and Care: The Challenge of Direct Funding</i>. <b>Carla Rice</b> is Canada Research Chair in care, gender, and relationships at University of Guelph, and founder and academic director of the Revision Centre for Art and Social Justice. She is the author of <i>Becoming Women: The Embodied Self in Image Culture</i> and co-editor of <i>Thickening Fat: Fat Bodies, Intersectionality, and Social Justice.</i></div>

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Titel: The AgingDisability Nexus (Disability ...
Verlag: UBC Press
Erscheinungsdatum: 2020
Einband: Hardcover
Zustand: New