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Cultures of Life: Transitions and limits in the governance of ageing
Deadline for Papers: 20th February 2009
Cultures of Life
Transitions and limits in the governance of ageing
GUEST EDITORS
Associate Professor Brett Neilson
Centre for Cultural Research, University of Western Sydney
Beatriz Cardona
Centre for Cultural Research, University of Western Sydney
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The purpose of this special edition of Health Sociology Review is to facilitate discussion on current research about ageing cultures and globalisation in order to explore how transnational developments impact on the construction and management of the ageing experience. It aims at stimulating conversations on issues such as current structures for the governance of ageing and the tensions and limitations that emerge from such models, the impact of global demographic transitions across localities, the role of science and biotechnology on the social and cultural understanding of later life and the rise of anti-ageing cultures and interventions as strategies for the governance of the ageing experience.
This Special Issue invites theoretical and empirical papers from across disciplines and theoretical perspectives addressing topics such as:
- The impact of globalisation and of multi-national organisations and agencies on the lives of older people
- Global strategies to promote health among ageing populations and the rise of anti-ageing cultures
- Biogerontological research and the cultural construction of ageing
- Age care in the 21st Century
- Ageing societies and global demographic transitions
- Pharmaceuticals and regulation in the global environment
- Ageing and processes of homegenisation and heterogenisation across localities
- Biobanks, biocapitalism and ageing cultures
- Healthy ageing policies and changing structures of governance.
Abstracts should be submitted via email no later than 08 November 2008. Authors are invited to contact the Guest Editors to discuss their approach in advance of submitting papers (email: b.cardona@uws.edu.au ; b.neilson@uws.edu.au). Manuscripts will be submitted by 20 February 2009.
Guidelines for manuscript preparation are available at:
www.healthsociologyreview.com/author-guidelines.php
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