The exploration of what May Sarton calls the »foreign country of old age« usually does not go far beyond the familiar: the focus of aging studies has thus far clearly rested upon North America and Western Europe. This multi-disciplinary essay collection critically examines conditions and representations of old age and aging in Eastern and Southeastern Europe from various perspectives of the humanities and social sciences. By shedding light on these culturally specific contexts, the contributions widen our understanding of the aging process in all its diversity and demonstrate that a shift in perspectives might in fact challenge a number of taken-for-granted positions and presumptions of aging studies.
Old Age in the Balkans No access Pages 33 - 50 Karl Kaser
Co-Residence of Elderly Persons with Children and Grandchildren in Eastern and Southeast Europe No access Pages 51 - 70 Siegfried Gruber
"University Elders,"Young Professors" and Students_A Generational Approach to the History of Higher Education in Russia in the Late 19th Century_71_90__Saburova, Tatiana{0000027038} No access Pages 71 - 90 Lubica Volanská, Ingeborg Jandl, Natalia Stagl-Skaro, Loredana Ivan, Ilina Jakimovska, Marcela Kácerová, Maija Könönen, Olga Krasnova, Kirill Levinson, Juraj Majo, Natalija Perišic, Tatiana Saburova, Ana Aštalkovska Gajtanoska, Rafaela Božic, Siegfried Gruber, Nadežda Sataric, Tatjana Petzer, Karl Kaser
Changes in Soviet Academia''s Age-Related Personnel Policies during the Cold War No access Pages 91 - 108 Kirill Levinson
No Country for Old People No access Pages 111 - 126 Ilina Jakimovska, Ana Aštalkovska Gajtanoska
Meanings of Getting Old in Post-Transition Serbia No access Pages 127 - 148 Natalija Perišic, Nadežda Sataric
On Nearness and Distance No access Pages 149 - 178 Lubica Volanská, Marcela Kácerová, Juraj Majo
The Use of Information and Communication Technologies in Family Communication No access Pages 179 - 206 Loredana Ivan
The Elderly in Russia No access Pages 207 - 232 Olga Krasnova
Aging in Soviet Utopian and Dystopian Literature No access Pages 235 - 252 Rafaela Božic
Ageless, Vital, Immortal No access Pages 253 - 270 Tatjana Petzer
Noticing Signs and Stereotypes of Aging No access Pages 271 - 290 Dagmar Gramshammer-Hohl, Oana Hergenröther
Does Genre Matter? No access Pages 291 - 310 Maija Könönen
Traumatic Aging in Borisav Stanković and Miloš Crnjanski No access Pages 311 - 334 Ingeborg Jandl
The Dark Past of Family No access Pages 335 - 356 Natalia Stagl-Skaro
The Hag and the Egg No access Pages 357 - 370 Dagmar Gramshammer-Hohl
Commemorating Russia''s Great Old Women No access Pages 371 - 378 Dagmar Gramshammer-Hohl
