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- Sandberg, Linn, 1983-
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Affirmative Old Age : the Ageing body and Feminist theories on Difference
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Ingår i: International Journal of Ageing and Later Life. - : Linköping University Electronic Press. - 1652-8670. ; 8:1, s. 11-40
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Discourses on old age and ageing are framed in narrow and binary ways, either as a decline narrative or through discourses of positive and successful ageing. The decline narrative, on the one hand, is highly centred on the decline of the ageing body as frail, leaky and unbounded, and on how old age is characterized by non-productivity, increasing passivity and dependency. Discourses on successful ageing, on the other hand, rely heavily on neo-liberal imperatives of activity, autonomy and responsibility. In successful ageing the specificities of ageing bodies are largely overlooked while the capacity of the old person to retain a youthful body, e.g. with the aid of sexuopharmaceuticals, is celebrated. This article argues for the need of a theorizing of old age that goes beyond the binaries of decline and success. Drawing on the work of feminist corpomaterialists Rosi Braidotti and Elisabeth Grosz, the article proposes affirmative old age as an alternative conceptualization of old age. As a theoretical project, affirmative old age aims to acknowledge the material specificities of the ageing body and is an attempt to theorize the ageing body in terms of difference but without understanding it as a body marked by decline, lack or negation.
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- Sandberg, Linn J., 1983-, et al.
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Introduction : Why critical dementia studies and why now?
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Ingår i: Critical Dementia Studies. - London : Routledge. - 9781032118802 - 9781032118833 - 9781003221982 ; , s. 1-12
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Bokkapitel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- This chapter introduces critical dementia studies and gives a brief overview of the chapters and the thinking behind the structure of the volume. The introduction discusses the timeliness of critical dementia studies and the impetus behind the volume. Dementia is commonly understood as a disease category, ahistorical and value-free. Critical dementia studies, however, approaches dementia as a socially produced, political category, open to transformation and social change. Overall, critical dementia studies encompasses a diverse set of approaches that problematise, defamiliarise, denaturalise and destabilise common assumptions and orthodoxies in dementia research, policy and practice.
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- Sandberg, Linn J., 1983-
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Thinking dementia differently : Dialogues between feminist scholarship and dementia studies
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Ingår i: Critical Dementia Studies. - London : Routledge. - 9781032118802 - 9781032118833 - 9781003221982 ; , s. 202-216
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Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This chapter engages in critical dialogues between dementia studies and feminist scholarship. More specifically, the chapter explores how feminist studies can be useful for thinking and rethinking dementia and difference. The chapter engages with two feminist genealogies: feminist difference theory and feminist standpoint theory. Dementia has frequently been conceptualised in terms of negative difference as loss and deterioration, in particular in bio-medical discourse. More recent discourses have in contrast sought to underscore the sameness and normality of people with dementia, but this approach also functions to reinstate people with dementia into cognonormative Western modernist ideals of activity, agency and autonomy. Feminist difference theorists, however, provide ways of thinking affirmative difference. This approach to difference is neither a recourse to pathological difference nor to assimilationist sameness, but enables ways of thinking dementia as lived and embodied difference. The second approach to difference, feminist standpoint theory, concerns the different positionalities of people with dementia. In this argument, people with dementia, in particular those experiencing multiple forms of oppression, are understood as holding epistemic privilege – a particular knowledge of the oppressions of cognitive ableism. The chapter proposes a ‘“demented” standpoint’ as a way of approaching the different and unique knowledge of people with dementia and discusses further how this requires radical rethinking of methodologies in dementia studies.
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- Sandberg, Linn, 1983-
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The Old, the Ugly and the Queer : thinking old age in relation to queer theory
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Ingår i: Graduate journal of Social Science. ; 5:2, s. 117-139
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- This article seeks to use queer theory as a social theory and a critical challenge to normalcy all together to theorise old age in gender studies. Additionally the article discusses some implications of bringing old age into queer theory, where the able body, older person-s sexualities in relation to heteronormativity, to mention a few things, are central for future queer theory. The red thread of the article is how the anti-social turn in queer theory and embracing shame may be used to critique the prevailing discourses of old age as either -successful- where the older person should be active and independent or old age as decline and decay. Queer theoretical notions such as failure and the abject are used to theorise old age and ageing bodies, but the article also discusses how some flexible bodies can overcome failures given class, sexuality, ablebodiedness and race etc. To perform in the Butlerian sense an intelligible and desired self is dependent both on gender, sexuality and age and this is in effect relying on certain modes of temporality. Queer temporality may thus challenge what is considered normal and good ageing but also reveal the taken for grantedness of normative time. The article concludes that by thinking queer theory and old age together a resurrection of knowledges is made possible, outside the good, successful and respectable old age.
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- Ward, Richard, et al.
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Thinking back and looking ahead : Co-ordinates for critical methodologies in dementia studies
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Ingår i: Critical Dementia Studies. - London : Routledge. - 9781032118802 - 9781032118833 - 9781003221982 ; , s. 263-278
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Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)abstract
- In this chapter we set out certain guiding co-ordinates for future critical methodologies for dementia studies and appraise existing approaches through a critical lens. The chapter brings into dialogue the work of two critical commentators and considers the implications of their work for dementia studies. The first, Alison Kafer, has outlined an integrative approach that marries feminist, queer and crip perspectives to propose a political-relational framing of illness and disability. The second, Patti Lather, a feminist ethnographer, has called for a different kind of ethnography, one that works in the ruins of confident social sciences and that embraces uncertainty and unknowing as methodological strengths. We focus particularly upon word-based and spoken methods, raising questions about the status of this type of research data and how it is handled and subsequently communicated. In particular, we seek to disrupt and open to question common assumptions, routines and unmarked aspects of the research process in dementia scholarship. Drawing upon arguments and insights developed in the course of this book, our discussion leads to a call for dementia researchers to bring ourselves closer in to the experiences of people living with dementia while questioning and distancing ourselves from notions of dementia as a fixed and stable category.
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- Lövgren, Karin, et al.
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Advertising old(er) men : Swedish old(er) men reflect on "seeing themselves”
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Ingår i: Ageing and the Media. - Bristol : Policy Press. - 9781447362036 - 9781447362050 - 9781447362067 ; , s. 157-173
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- Adverts tell a story and comprise images that old men encounter in their everyday 5 lives, and which provide popular scripts on ageing masculinity. This chapter focuses 6 on old men’s own understandings of advertising and their depictions of old men. 7 Focus group interviews with Swedish old men, aged between 65 and 92, were 8 conducted, with commercial adverts featuring old men used as visual prompts to 9 invite discussions on masculinity and ageing. The advertising shown reflects both 10 negative and overtly ageist images, and images of the so-called successfully ageing 11 old man; adverts appealing to identification and aspiration, adverts inciting laughter 12 and appreciation, and adverts creating a sense of resistance or rejection. Different 13 readings of the shown adverts emerged, which point to the polysemic nature of media 14 texts. The chapter discusses prominent themes from the transcribed and coded focus 15 group interviews, on embodied ageing, ageing in different stages of life, masculinity 16 and societal changes in terms of gender equality and the role and status of old men.
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- Sandberg, Linn, 1983-
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Backward, Dumb and Violent Hillbillies? : Rural Geographies and Intersectional Studies on Intimate Partner Violence
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Ingår i: Affilia. - : Sage Publications. - 0886-1099 .- 1552-3020. ; 28:4, s. 350-365
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- Urban and rural geographies should be further included in feminist intersectional research on intimate partner violence. The article reviews existing research on the challenges facing rural victims of IPV. This research makes visible the specific problems rurality imposes on victims of IPV. However, research on rural IPV risks being misused and subsequently reinforcing othering and stereotypes of rurality and rural inhabitants. The article suggests that researchers alternate between intra- and anti-categorical approaches. On the one hand rural victims of IPV should be analysed as a neglected point of intersection, and on the other the diversity of ruralities should be acknowledged.
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