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Author:   Augie Fleras
Publisher:   Brill
Imprint:   Brill
Weight:   0.001kg
ISBN:  

9789004704664

ISBN 10:   9004704663
Pages:   224
Publication Date:   12 September 2024
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Preface: Ageism Matters PART 1: Ageism: The Idea 1 Ageism in the Pandemic Age: A Fraught Reality  1 Introduction: The Pandemic of Ageism  2 Moving the Yardsticks?  3 Argument, Organization, and Contribution 2 Surveying Ageism: Global Perspectives, Public Perceptions  1 Introduction: “You Are a Waste of Space”  2 Surveying the Age-Scape: “Ageism Never Grows Old”  3 Growing Older and Being Old: Diverse Narratives, Mixed Messages 3 Conceptualizing Ageism: A Riddle, a Mystery, an Enigma  1 Introduction: Framing the Puzzle  2 Defining Ageism  3 Constituents of Ageism: Prejudice, Stereotypes, Discrimination  4 Problematizing the Puzzle of Ageism 4 Intersectionalities of Age: Compounding Ageism  1 Introduction: Ageism in Complexity  2 Intersectionality as Lens  3 Gender X Age/Ageing: A Gendered Ageism  4 A Racialized Ageism/Ageing  5 Indigeneity and Ageism  6 Class, Status, and Ageism  7 Homophobia and Ageism PART 2: Ageism in Action 5 Expressing Ageism: Individual, Institutional, Societal  1 Introduction: Different Levels, Multiple Sources, Diverse Manifestations  2 Individual Ageisms  3 Institutional Ageism: Structural and Systemic  4 Societal Ageism  5 “Out There” or “In Here”: Ageisms in Canada or an Ageist Canada? 6 Institutional Ageism: Workplace and Health Care  1 Introduction: “More Than a Glitch”  2 Workplace Ageism: Navigating an Ageist Work World  3 Ageism in Healthcare  4 Long-Term Care Homes as Total Ageist Institutions 7 Ageist Media, Media Ageism  1 Introduction: Media Misrepresentations  2 Misrepresenting Minorities  3 Ageism in the Media: Media Representations of Age and Ageing  4 Deconstructing Media Frames of the Elderly PART 3: Beyond Ageism 8 Challenging Ageism: Rethinking Anti-Ageism  1 Introduction: Beyond Ageism  2 Tallying the Toll  3 Anti-Ageism Interventions: Different Levels, Different Outcomes  4 Toward an Inclusive Anti-Ageism Approach: Changing the Culture 9 Towards an Age-Inclusive Canada: The Reset  1 Introduction: Beyond Ageism?  2 Changing the Lens  3 Shifting the Discourses  4 A Rights-Based, Age-Inclusive Society: A Re-imagining Index

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Augie Fleras, Ph.D. (1980), Victoria University of Wellington, NZ, is a retired professor of Sociology at the University of Waterloo. He has published extensively across the field of social inequality, including two Brill publications: A Reckoning with Racism (2023) and Canadian Multiculturalism @50 (2021).

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