All Outputs (2)

Creating Spaces for an Ageing Society: The Role of Critical Social Infrastructure (2021)
Book
Yarker, S. (2021). Creating Spaces for an Ageing Society: The Role of Critical Social Infrastructure. Emerald. https://doi.org/10.1108/9781839827389

Creating Spaces for an Ageing Society considers the existing social science literature on shared neighbourhood spaces through the perspective of an ageing population. It asks the question; how can we use social infrastructure to build local neighbour... Read More about Creating Spaces for an Ageing Society: The Role of Critical Social Infrastructure.

A research agenda for geographies of everyday intergenerational encounter (2021)
Journal Article
Yarker, S. (2021). A research agenda for geographies of everyday intergenerational encounter. Area, 53(2), 264-271. https://doi.org/10.1111/area.12716

This paper calls for a research agenda that attends to the geographies of everyday intergenerational encounter that occur informally in communities. Using the theoretical framing of social infrastructure and encounter, it argues that we need to bette... Read More about A research agenda for geographies of everyday intergenerational encounter.