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This volume focuses on questions concerning the ways in which actors and socialites perform aging on the stage of consumerist culture. How do celebrities, whose star personae are ultimately connected with the prime of their lives, cope with the aging process?

Er wordt vaak gesproken over normvervaging en normverval. In deze derde WRR Verkenning laat cultuursocioloog Gabriël van den Brink echter zien, dat dit een eenzijdige interpretatie is van de werkelijkheid. Er is juist veeleer sprake van een ophoging van onze normen, waardoor we steeds hogere eisen gaan stellen aan het gedrag van anderen. Als de normen in de samenleving teveel uiteen gaan lopen, doet zich haast vanzelf een kentering voor. Na een periode van tolerantie en vrijblijvendheid, volgt dan een periode waarin de nadruk ligt op plichtsbesef en normhandhaving. Het lijkt erop dat we moment

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Cover Popularizing Dementia -- Contents -- Popularizing dementia. Public expressions and representations of forgetfulness -- I. LITERARY FICTION -- The locus of our dis-ease. Narratives of family life in the age of Alzheimer's -- Deconstructing the American family. Figures of parents with dementia in Jonathan Franzen's The Corrections and A.M. Homes' May We Be Forgiven -- Purging the world of the Whore and the horror. Gothic and apocalyptic portrayals of dementia in Canadian fiction -- Narrating the limits of narration. Alzheimer's disease in contemporary literary texts -- The 'terrifying question mark'. Dementia, fiction, and the possibilities of narrative -- II. ART, ARTISTIC APPROACHES, AND FILM -- Dementia on the canvas. Art and the biopolitics of creativity -- Cultural projection of dementia in the Reminiscence Museum. Dynamics of extrapolation -- Opening Minds through Art. Students' constructions of people with dementia -- 'Zip!' Dementia materialized in clothing design -- Challenging representations of dementia in contemporary Western fiction film. From epistemic injustice to social participation -- Intercorporeal relations and ethical perception. Portrayals of Alzheimer's disease in Away from Her and En sång för Martin -- III. MEDIA DISCOURSES AND PUBLIC UNDERSTANDINGS -- Dementia in the making. Early detection and the body/brain in Alzheimer's disease -- The meanings of early diagnostics for Alzheimer's disease in Dutch newspapers. A framing analysis -- Respect for autonomy? The contribution of popular magazines to the public understanding of dementia care -- Representations of Alzheimer's disease among non-specialists. A cross-cultural study between Paris and Boston -- In the company of robots. Health care and the identity of people with dementia -- The zero-degree of dementia. Thinking the gap between subject and substance.

What is the role of the humanities at the start of 21st century? In the last few decades, the various disciplines of the humanities (history, linguistics, literary studies, art history, media studies) have encountered a broad range of challenges, related to the future of print culture, to shifts in funding strategies, and to the changing contours of culture and society. Several publications have addressed these challenges as well as potential responses on a theoretical level. This coedited volume opts for a different strategy and presents accessible case studies that demonstrate what humanities scholars contribute to concrete and pressing social debates about topics including adoption, dementia, hacking, and conservation. These "engaged" forms of humanities research reveal the continued importance of thinking and rethinking the nature of art, culture, and public life.

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Creative leisure occupations, such as arts and crafts, can give rise to meaningfulness. To date, much of what is known about meaningful occupations relates to verbalised meanings. This article assumes a sensory gaze to examine the tangible creative leisure occupations of three women in midlife. A sensory ethnographic approach comprising participant observation, a reflexive ethnography diary, and photo elicitation was augmented by semi-structured interviews, revealing the ways that meaningfulness is felt and sensed in the body through emplaced interactions with nonhuman elements: materials, objects, space and time. The findings provide fresh insights into embodied and emplaced experiences of meaningfulness in occupation in the context of meaningful ageing, illustrating how meaningfulness in occupation goes beyond what can be experienced or expressed in words, spanning both tangible and intangible themes.

In spite of the increased attention to the intersection of people's various social, cultural, economic and political locations, the discriminations that come with old age are often neglected in gender studies. Some have even pointed to the inadvertent ageism in the field (e.g. Calasanti et al., 2006). While in social gerontology there is considerable attention to older women, this is not necessarily from a feminist or intersectional perspective, and the field has been accused (by e.g. Hogan, 2016) of the unintentional use of sexist concepts and stereotypes. It has also been critiqued for looking at age and gender in additive ways, with a tendency to foreground older women's misery (e.g. by Krekula, 2007; Calasanti and Slevin, 2006). Since the 1990s, critical age(ing) studies have emerged as a distinct field, which has led to the publication of several important books and articles that have addressed the topic of gerontophobia or ageism and the 'sexageism' women face in particular (e.g. Gullette, 2004; Woodward, 1991; Cruikshank, 2009/2003; Holstein, 2015; Segal, 2013; Bouson, 2016; Arber and Ginn, 1991).2 This body of work has pointed to the need of theorizing 'the system of inequality, based on age, which privileges the not-old at the expense of the old' (Calasanti et al., 2006) and asked attention for how the stigma affixed to old age and the age relations that keep young and old groups in their respective places, serve capitalist and patriarchal power relations. So far, however, age-based oppression has still not been taken to the centre of feminist analysis. Discriminations that specifically affect older women are not high on the feminist activist agenda either. In this Spring 2022 General Issue, the Journal of Diversity and Gender Studies (DiGeSt) aims to call attention to ageism and the need for including it in feminist theory and activism. It also aims to raise awareness of older women's strategies of resistance and activism that may inspire new perceptions and experiences of ageing.

This collection of original articles sits at the intersection of two interdisciplinary fields: media studies and aging studies. Drawing on both scholarly literatures, we explore the reciprocal influences of aging and mediation in the realms of music, television, celebrity, fandom, social media, film, and advertising/marketing, among others.

Understanding how creative interventions can help develop social connectivity and resilience for older people is vital in developing a holistic cross-sector approach towards ageing well. Academics with a wide range of expertise critically reflect on how the built environment, community living, cultural participation, lifelong learning, and artist-led interventions encourage older people to thrive and overcome both challenging life events and the everyday changes associated with ageing. The book uses a range of approaches, including participatory research methods, to bring the voices of older people themselves to the foreground. It looks at how taking part in creative interventions develops different types of social relationships and fosters resilience