Kriebernegg / Maierhofer / Ratzenböck Alive and Kicking at All Ages

Cultural Constructions of Health and Life Course Identity
1. Auflage 2014
ISBN: 978-3-8394-2582-4
Verlag: transcript
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Wasserzeichen (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 324 Seiten, Format (B × H): 148 mm x 225 mm

Reihe: Aging Studies

The linking of age and ill-health is part of a cultural narrative of decline as age is often defined as the absence of good health. Research has shown that we are aged by culture, but we are also culturally made ill when we age. The cultural ambiguity of aging can thus deconstruct negative images of old age as physical decrepitude. This volume investigates the topic of health within the matrix of time and experience by addressing issues such as how our understanding of health influences our notion of agency within a subversive deconstruction of normative age concepts, and what role the notion of health plays in such an interaction.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Kriebernegg, Ulla

Maierhofer, Roberta

Ratzenböck, Barbara

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Soziologie der Lebensart, Well-Being
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Gesundheitssoziologie, Medizinsoziologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Altersgruppen Alterssoziologie

Über Autor(innen)

Maierhofer, Roberta
Roberta Maierhofer is a professor of American studies and Director of the Center for Inter-American Studies at Universität Graz, Austria. Her research focuses on (Inter)American literature and culture, gender and age/aging.

Ratzenböck, Barbara
Barbara Ratzenböck is a sociologist and senior scientist at the Center for Inter-American Studies at Universität Graz, Austria. Her research and teaching focus on digitalization, gender, and generations, as well as Inter-American studies.

Kriebernegg, Ulla
Ulla Kriebernegg is the director of the Center for Interdisciplinary Research on Aging and Care (CIRAC) and an associate professor of American Studies at Universität Graz in Austria. In her research and teaching she focuses on North American literary and cultural studies, aging and care studies, and health humanities. She has taught internationally and has won several teaching and research awards.

Ulla Kriebernegg is an Associate Professor at the Center for Inter-American Studies of the University of Graz, Austria, and chair of the European Network in Aging Studies.
Roberta Maierhofer is Professor of (Inter)American Studies at the University of Graz, Austria, and Adjunct Professor at Binghamton University, New York. Her research focuses on American Literature and Cultural Studies, Gender Studies, Transatlantic Cooperation in Education, Inter-American Studies and Age/Aging Studies.
Barbara Ratzenböck (M.A.) is a research assistant at the Center for Inter-American Studies at the University of Graz, Austria.