Books
Recent books from members of the department.
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The biopolitics of Dementia: A neurocritical Perspective
James Rupert Fletcher
This book explores how dementia studies relates to dementia’s growing public profile and corresponding research economy. The book argues that a neuropsychiatric biopolitics of dementia positions dementia as a syndrome of cognitive decline, caused by discrete brain diseases, distinct from ageing, widely misunderstood by the public, that will one day be overcome through technoscience.
Published in November 2023.
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A critical History of Dementia Studies
James Rupert Fletcher, Andrea Capstick
This book offers the first ever critical history of dementia studies. The book is intended for researchers, academics, and students of dementia studies, social gerontology, disability, chronic illness, health and social care. It will also appeal to activists and practitioners engaged in social work and caregiving involved in dementia research.
Published in September 2023.
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Ageing in Place in Urban Environments: Critical Perspectives
Tine Buffel, Chris Phillipson
Cities are imagined and structured with a younger, working population in mind, while older people are rarely incorporated into the mainstream of thinking and planning around urban environments. Policies in Europe have emphasised the role of the local environment in promoting ‘ageing in place’. However the places in which older people are ageing have often proved to be challenging environments. This book explores the forces behind these developments and how older people have responded.
Published July 2023.
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COVID-19, Inequality and Older People
Camilla Lewis, Chris Phillipson, Sophie Yarker, Luciana Lang
This book provides insights into the challenges facing older people in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic. The book analyses their lived experiences and those of organisations working to support them, shedding light on the isolating effects of social distancing. The authors argue that the pandemic exacerbated existing inequalities in the UK, disproportionately affecting low income neighbourhoods and minority ethnic communities.
Published June 2023.
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Ageing, Dementia and Time in Film: Temporal Performances
MaoHui Deng
This book offers the first sustained analysis of films about ageing and dementia through a temporal framework. Analysing the aesthetics of films like A Moment to Remember (2004), Memories of Tomorrow (2006) and Happy End (2017), Deng provides new insights into our understanding of how ageing is temporally produced, presented, received and interrogated in and through cinema.
Published January 2023
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Creating Spaces for an Ageing Society: The Role of Critical Social Infrastructure
Sophie Yarker
Creating Spaces for an Ageing Society considers the existing social science literature on shared neighbourhood spaces through the perspective of an ageing population. It asks the question: how can we use social infrastructure to build local neighbourhoods that are supportive of the social relationships we need in later life? With emphasis on how older people rely more on neighbourhood-based networks, this book highlights the crucial importance of diverse spaces in which to develop and maintain social connections as we grow older.
Published November 2021.
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Precarity and Ageing: Understanding Insecurity and Risk in Later Life
Amanda Grenier, Chris Phillipson and Richard A. Settersten Jr
Developing an exciting new approach to understanding the changing cultural, economic and social circumstances facing different groups of older people. The chapters provide a critical review of the concept of precarity, highlighting the experiences of ageing that occur within the context of societal changes tied to declining social protection.
Published July 2021.
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Age-Friendly Cities and Communities: A Global Perspective
Tine Buffel, Sophie Handler and Chris Phillipson
As the drive towards creating age-friendly cities grows, this important book provides a comprehensive survey of theories and policies aimed at improving the quality of life of older people living in urban areas.
Published February 2019.
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Home and Community: Lessons from a Modernist Housing Scheme
Sandra Costa Santos, Nadia Bertolino, Stephen Hicks, Camilla Lewis, Vanessa May
Examining the relationships between architecture, home and community in the Claremont Court housing scheme in Edinburgh, Home and Community provides a novel perspective on the enabling potential of architecture that encompasses physical, spatial, relational and temporal phenomena.
Published April 2018.
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Realising the City: Urban Ethnography in Manchester
Camilla Lewis and Jessica Symons
This book offers an inside view of Manchester, England demonstrating the complexity of urban dynamics from a range of ethnographic vantage points, including the city's football clubs, the airport, housing estates, the Gay Village and the city's annual civic parade.
Published December 2017.
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Researching Age-Friendly Communities: Stories from Older People as Co-Investigators
Tine Buffel, Julie Asumu, Rebecca Bromley, Roger Bysouth, Angela Downing, Joan Gem, Tony Goulding, Freddi Greenmantle, Helen Hibberd, Raj Kaur, Mary O’Mahony, Robert Page, Chris Ricard, Daljit Singh, Elaine Unegbu and Bill Williams.
This guide evaluates the participatory dimension of a study that explored the age-friendliness of three wards in the city of Manchester. The purpose of the study was to examine opportunities and constraints for older people living in urban environments.
Published in 2015.
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An Alternative Age-Friendly Handbook
Sophie Handler
Featuring new and emerging age-inclusive initiatives with additional reflections (and provocations) on ageing in the contemporary city.
Published in 2014.
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Ageing
Chris Phillipson
This book interrogates various understandings of ageing and provides a critical assessment of attitudes and responses to the development of ageing societies, placing these in the context of a variety of historical and sociological debates.
Published April 2013.
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Ageing, Meaning and Social Structure
Jan Baars, Joseph Dohmen, Amanda Grenier and Chris Phillipson
The book, from a wide range of contributors, focuses on major issues in ageing such as autonomy, agency, frailty, lifestyle, social isolation, dementia and professional challenges in social work and participatory research.
Published in 2011.
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Not Content: Projects for a Shared City
Mark Hammond and Stefan White
The book was launched to accompany an exhibition and workshop events including a showcase for a wide range of films exploring the relationship between architecture, the city (Manchester) and its citizens.
Published in 2011.
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The SAGE Handbook of Social Gerontology
Dale Dannefer and Chris Phillipson
This SAGE Handbook integrates basic research on social dimensions of ageing. It presents programmatic applications of research in areas not often seen in Handbooks including imprisonment, technology and ageing, urban society aged, and elderly migration.
Published in 2010.
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