| Outline of Final Research Achievements |
This project considered the cultural discourse of ageing, illness (especially dementia) and care, through a close analysis of British and Japanese picturebooks for children. It has suggested how the conception of subjectivity may be culturally informed and how it may affect the understanding, experience and representation of care and care relationships in specific cultural spaces. The project has also brought into focus ways in which genre and media contribute to the narrativisation and the discourse of ageing and illness. Finally, the project has brought together ageing studies, children's literature studies, and the perspectives of ecocriticism and posthumanism, demonstrating the rich potential of these intersections for our understanding of the life course, generations, the future and humans' relationships to human and non-human others. The research outcomes have been disseminated in English, introducing Japanese narratives and studies of ageing in Japan to outside the country.
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