New Challenges to Ageing in the Rural North: A Critical Interdisciplinary Perspective - Couverture rigide

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 3030206025 ISBN 13 : 9783030206024

Editeur : Springer Nature Switzerland AG, 2019

Synopsis

Offers a multi-dimensional picture of ageing issues in the rural northern context

Demonstrates how political positions and their outcomes affect social and political conditions of older people

Contributes to expanding knowledge on the elderly in the Arctic

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Päivi Naskali is a Professor of Gender Studies at the University of Lapland. She is a head of the Finnish University Network of Gender Studies, has worked actively in the National Doctoral School in Gender Studies and edited the Journal of Women's Studies. Her research interests include gender and ageing in the times of neoliberalism, educational gender politics and feminist pedagogy and philosophy. She has lately been leading a research project The Arctic Change and Elderly Exclusion: A Gender-based Perspective.

Joan R. Harbison is an Adjunct Professor at Dalhousie University School of Social Work. Her work includes interdisciplinary approaches to research in the fields of ageing, health, and social service delivery. She has published in numerous national and international texts and journals and contributed to many scholarly international, interdisciplinary, development and research projects. Recently she authored the text Contesting Elder Abuse and Neglect: Ageism, Risk, and the Rhetoric of Rights in the Mistreatment of Older People, University of British Columbia Press, Fall, 2016, in collaboration with her interdisciplinary research team from law, sociology and social work.

Shahnaj Begum is a Post-doctoral researcher at the Unit for Gender Studies in the Faculty of Education of the University of Lapland. Her research focuses on Northern elderly well-being and gender issues in the context of Arctic change. She is a member of the University of the Arctic Thematic Network of Health and Well being in the Arctic.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Springer Nature Switzerland AG
• Date d'édition: 2019
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 3030206025
• ISBN 13: 9783030206024
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 270
• Éditeur: Naskali Päivi, Harbison Joan R., Begum Shahnaj
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