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Preventing Dementia?
The conceptualization of dementia has changed dramatically in recent years with the claim that, through early detection and by controlling several risk factors, a prevention of dementia is possible. Although encouraging and providing hope against this feared condition, this claim is open to scrutiny. This volume looks at how this new conceptualization ignores many of the factors which influence a dementia sufferers’ prognosis, including their history with education, food and exercise as well as their living in different epistemic cultures. The central aim is to question the concept of prevention and analyze its impact on aging people and aging societies.
Cultural Psychology
The introductory book presents the current state of cultural psychology in terms of theoretical approaches and methods comprehensively. It also demonstrates how deeply it is anchored in various fields of action. Cultural psychology is an interdisciplinary field of research that aims less to objectively and causally explain human behavior and experience, but rather seeks to understand psychological phenomena in their respective sociocultural context. In doing so, it follows a theoretical understanding of humans as actively acting beings. Compared to the prevailing nomothetic-oriented psychology, it emphasizes different theoretical and methodological approaches, particularly highlighting intentionality, meaning structuring, and ultimately the cultural aspects of human existence. Cultural psychology incorporates both hermeneutic approaches from psychology, philosophy, sociology, and ethnology, as well as qualitative methods for studying human behavior and experience.
Emotion – Feeling – Mood
This volume provides systematic, interdisciplinary, and intercultural impulses for a phenomenological pedagogy of emotions, feelings, and moods without subordinating them to the logocentric dualism of emotion and rationality. Starting from foundational and cultural perspectives on pedagogical relations of education, learning, and Bildung, specific emotions in individual studies, as well as different approaches of important representatives of phenomenological research on emotions are presented. The contributions include pedagogical, philosophical, and empirical approaches to feelings, emotions, and moods, highlighting their fundamental importance and productivity for learning, Bildung, and education in different pedagogical institutions and fields.
The Gender of Things
The Gender of Things is a highly interdisciplinary book that explores the power relationship between gender and the material culture of technoscience, addressing a seemingly straightforward question: How does a thing—such as a spacesuit, a humanoid robot, or a surgical instrument—become a gendered object? These 14 short chapters cover an original selection of “things”: from cosmeceuticals to early motor scooters, from Scrum boards to border walls, and from robots to the human body and its parts. By historically examining how significance has been attached to specific things and how things were designed and produced, the chapters reveal how the concept of gender has been embedded and ...
Framing Age
Ageing populations have gradually become a major concern in many industrialised countries over the past fifty years, drawing the attention of both politics and science. The target of a raft of health and social policies, older people are often identified as a specific, and vulnerable, population. At the same time, ageing has become a specialisation in many disciplines - medicine, sociology, psychology, to name but three – and a discipline of its own: gerontology. This book questions the framing of old age by focusing on the relationships between policy making and the production of knowledge. The first part explores how the meeting of scientific expertise and the politics of old age anchors...
Planning Later Life
This book examines the relevance of modern medicine and healthcare in shaping the lives of elderly persons and the practices and institutions of ageing societies. Combining individual and social dimensions, Planning Later Life discusses the ethical, social, and political consequences of increasing life expectancies and demographic change in the context of biomedicine and public health. By focusing on the field of biomedicine and healthcare, the authors engage readers in a dialogue on the ethical and social implications of recent trends in dementia research and care, advance healthcare planning, or the rise of anti-ageing medicine and prevention. Bringing together the largely separated debate...
Stimmungen und Atmosphären
Unter dem Leitbegriff einer „Affektivität des Sozialen“ geht der vorliegende Sammelband den Phänomenen Stimmungen und Atmosphären nach, indem er theoretische Ansätze und empirische Analysen aus Sozial- und Kulturwissenschaften ins Gespräch bringt. Insgesamt loten die im Band versammelten Beiträge aus, wie die allgegenwärtige Affektivität des Sozialen konzeptionell zu fassen und einzuordnen ist, welche Rolle wechselseitige Affizierungen und affektive Gestimmtheiten in sozialen Situationen spielen und welche methodischen Zugänge für ihre Untersuchung in Frage kommen. So werden zum einen Theorieperspektiven im Spannungsfeld von Affekttheorie, Phänomenologie und soziologischer ...
Anti-Aging als Form der Lebensführung
Larissa Pfaller geht der Frage nach, warum moderne Anti-Aging-Maßnahmen trotz fehlender medizinischer Evidenz eine stabile Anwender- und Anhängerschaft finden. Dabei führt sie die Anziehungskraft und Attraktivität des Anti-Agings auf eine symbolische Wirkmacht zurück, die weit über eine rein medizinische Wirksamkeit hinausweist. Die Autorin rekonstruiert, welchen Stellenwert Anti-Aging-Praktiken in der Biographie der AnwenderInnen einnehmen, wie diese sinnhaft in den gelebten Alltag integriert werden und diesen mitstrukturieren, welche Werte damit verknüpft sind und wie sich dies im Leben der AnwenderInnen schließlich zu einer stimmigen Form der Lebensführung zusammenfügt.
