{"product_id":"aging-a-z-concepts-toward-emancipatory-gerontology-9781629584508","title":"Aging A-Z: Concepts Toward Emancipatory","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis provocative, intellectually charged treatise serves as a concise introduction to emancipatory gerontology, examining multiple dimensions of persistent and hotly debated topics around aging, the life course, the roles of power, politics and partisanship, culture, economics, and communications. Critical perspectives are presented as definitions for reader understanding, with links to concepts of identity, knowledge construction, social networks, social movements, and inequalities. With today’s intensifying concentration of wealth and corporatization, precarity is the fate for growing numbers of the world’s population. Intersectionality as an analytic concept offers a new appreciation of how social advantage and disadvantage accumulate, and how constructions of race, ethnicity, class, ability, and gender influence aging.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe book’s entries offer a bibliographic compendium, crediting the salience of early pioneering theorists and locating these within the cutting-edge of research (social, behavioral, policy, and gene–environment sciences) that currently advances our understandings of human development, trauma, and resilience. Accompanying these foundations are theories of resistance for advancing human rights and the dignity of marginalized populations.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"A central purpose of Aging \u003ci\u003eA-Z \u003c\/i\u003eis to demonstrate the pervasiveness and (often unacknowledged) impact of theory, and the need to deliberately re-engage theory with practice….The book is infused with a clear mandate for theoretically informed action, in service of social justice and emancipation. The novelty of \u003ci\u003eA-Z \u003c\/i\u003elies in the format and features which guide readers on a path to exploring sources and implications of concepts and theories they use while understanding consequences for practice.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Examples of how \u003ci\u003eA-Z \u003c\/i\u003econcepts can be aggregated and targeted for greatest relevance are demonstrated for two practice disciplines (nursing and social work) and several specific areas of study.\" \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBarbara Bowers\u003c\/strong\u003e in \u003ci\u003eThe Gerontologist\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMonumental in scope, painstaking in detail, penetrating in depth and really accessible in style, this is the book to refer to for anyone interested in what aging means for society, and how much more it could mean if radically new policies were introduced by governments. Written with an enthralling vibrancy and heartfelt dedication to critical analysis, Estes and DiCarlo have performed a near miraculous feat in crafting the essential source for both newcomers to the ageing field and more experienced hands. Congratulations to them both. I could not recommend this book more strongly. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAlan Walker\u003c\/b\u003e, Professor of Social Policy \u0026amp; Social Gerontology, University of Sheffield (UK)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe authors provide an unusual and welcomed project to infuse critical sociology and political economy to the study \u003cb\u003eof\u003c\/b\u003e gerontology. The encyclopedic entries are well written (and fun) to read. Highly creative, refreshing, and compelling. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTeresa Ghilarducci, \u003c\/b\u003eNew School for Social Research, and coauthor of \u003ci\u003eRescuing Retirement: A Plan to Guarantee Retirement Security for All Americans\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhatever depth of knowledge and expertise one already possesses, and whatever perspective one brings to the study and understanding of aging, it can be guaranteed that every reader will find much that is new and provocative in \u003ci\u003eAging A-Z. \u003c\/i\u003eFor scholars, policymakers and others interested in the future possibilities of age and aging, this book’s breadth and the extensive range of concepts is both challenging and inspiring.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eDale Dannefer\u003c\/b\u003e, Selah Chamberlain Professor of Sociology, Case Western Reserve University\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003ePreface. \u003c\/em\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eI. Opening. II. Why Aging A-Z now? \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eIII. Critical Concepts. \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eIV. Closing. V. Appendix (Only only)\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Left Coast Press Inc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51020145721687,"sku":"9781629584508","price":34.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781629584508.jpg?v=1750782564","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/aging-a-z-concepts-toward-emancipatory-gerontology-9781629584508","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}