A Senior Moment

Ageing and Memory are two cultural processes that establish their own relationships with time. They affect our ways of living, in the present, and for a future, as we move through life.

This book focuses on the cultural mediations of ageing and memory, teasing out their complex and largely unpredictable relationships and interconnections. Its overall purpose is to explore different practices, commodities, daily routines, sounds, images and technologies that configure memory and ageing and shape our experiences of living in time and with time. By covering a variety of phenomena, from biopics, music by elderly, and artefacts among other, this edited collection considers the cultural stuff that ageing and memory are made of and interconnected in singular ways, for and by particular people, in specific socio-historical locations.

Line Grenier is a full professor at the Département de communication at Université de Montréal in Canada.

Fannie Valois-Nadeau is a postdoctoral researcher at CELAT (Centre Culture-Arts-Société), Université du Québec in Montréal, and a lecturer in sociology at Université du Québec en Outaouais in Montréal, Canada.