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The second edition of this landmark handbook provides an authoritative overview of the emergence and development of cultural gerontology. It reveals the vibrancy and diversity of theory, methodology and research methods, and reflects on changes in the field since the first edition and examines future directions. Over the last two decades, cultural gerontology has emerged as one of the most lively and insightful areas of academic analysis. Whilst the Cultural Turn may have come quite late to ageing studies, cultural perspectives have increasingly influenced the field. Drawing from work across the humanities and social sciences, it has changed the ways in which we study later years, challenging old stereotypes, bringing to bear new theories, new methodologies, as well as new forms of political and intellectual engagement. The aim of this second edition of the handbook has been to bring together both new and original authors to provide a critical analysis of key perspectives and debates, and consider avenues for future agendas, within their own fields of cultural gerontology. There are new topics and themes, new theoretical and methodological perspectives, as well as chapters that have been extensively revised and updated. The handbook offers lively, interdisciplinary and vibrant accounts of later life around five interconnected areas: the politics and theorising of ageing; materiality and embodiment; cultures of care; identities, relationships and consumption; and arts and technologies. The Routledge Handbook of Cultural Gerontology captures the field’s past, present and future in widening the social gerontological imaginary and brings new and creative methodologies to bear on the understanding of all dimensions of the lives of people in mid to later life. It is essential reading for students and scholars concerned with ageing and gerontology.

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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.

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