What is it about?
Issue Mapping for an Ageing Europe is a seminal guide to mapping social and political issues with digital methods. The issue at stake concerns the imminent crisis of an ageing Europe and its impact on the contemporary welfare state. The book brings together three leading approaches to issue mapping: Bruno Latour's social cartography, Ulrich Beck's risk cartography and Jeremy Crampton's critical neo-cartography. These modes of inquiry are put into practice with digital methods for mapping the ageing agenda, including debates surrounding so-called 'old age', cultural philosophies of ageing, itinerant care workers, not to mention European anti-ageing cuisine. Issue Mapping for an Ageing Europe addresses an urgent social issue with new media research tools.
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Why is it important?
The book addresses one of the major issues of the day, ageing, studying it not as a biological process but as social challenge. The book also uses digital methods, which are techniques and tools for analysing online data such as websites of governmental and non-governmental organisations involved in the social debates surrounding ageing.
Perspectives
The book takes up three interesting perspectives on how to map a social issue developed by leading authors in social theory, risk analysis and critical cartography. Each of these approaches are operationalised using digital methods, leading to interesting empirical case studies such as on careworker drain as well as European cuisines for active ageing.
Prof. Richard Rogers
Universiteit van Amsterdam
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This page is a summary of: Issue Mapping for an Ageing Europe, February 2015, Amsterdam University Press,
DOI: 10.5117/9789089647160.
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