About

The aim of the group is therefore to be a focus for an exchange of ideas and debate. As part of this there will be a number of one-day seminars and workshops which will explore different aspects of ageing and the body. It is hoped that these will provide a basis for publications. The interests of the group are broad and include theory, empirical research and practice in relation to, for example:

  • Anti-ageing/Age Resistance
  • Lived bodies in everyday life
  • Clothing and embodiment
  • Discourses of ageing and ageism
  • Well-being and the ageing body
  • The masquerade of age
  • Policing old bodies: intergenerational conflict and the role of governance
  • Queer bodies
  • Racialised bodies
  • Fluid bodies, leaky bodies
  • Gendered bodies
  • Bodies in the Third and Fourth Ages
  • Researching ageing bodies: methods and methodology
  • Exercise and 'active' ageing
  • Spatial geographies of bodies
  • Bodies and institutions
  • Death, dying and disposal
  • Bodywork
  • Emotions