The ageing of populations has been a topic of discussion during the last few decades, but how is this subject represented in the media, and what images of old age are produced? In this article we present the results of a quantitative content analysis that investigates how the concept of population ageing has been represented in Swedish local and national daily news press between 1988 and 2009, and the old age positions that are offered in these representations. We also use discourse analysis in order to qualitatively examine the ways in which the concept of population ageing is articulated in these news press articles and the old age positions that are thereby constituted. The results show that the concept is constituted as a naturalised expert concept, and is primarily used in order to contextualise articles about future political and economical difficulties or even crises. By articulating population ageing with both political policies, political economy and older people's (as a group) reported need for care and services, population ageing was constituted as a political economic concern rather than a problem for the aged individual.

From an international perspective, media representations of population ageing have been described as apocalyptic in character. In this article, we analyse the way population ageing is represented in three Swedish newspapers: Aftonbladet, Dagens Nyheter and Västerbottens-Kuriren. The aim is to investigate Swedish news-press representations of population ageing and the old age identities that they offer. We conduct qualitative analyses of the articulations between the verbal content and the use of illustrations, metaphorical language, headlines and captions using the concepts offered by discourse theory. The analysis of the material shows that the studied newspapers firmly position population ageing within a wider discourse of political economy and as a threat to the concept of welfare. Growth is promoted as a self-evident means for adjusting to the expected threat. Illustrations and metaphorical language helped to constitute population ageing as a serious, dichotomised (e.g. young

Normative time occupies a prominent place in life course theory. Time intersects with the life course to dictate discourses of appropriate life stage progression in a linear chain of events from birth to reproduction and finally death. Taking crip time and the life course as their focus, the papers in this special section recognize that cultural understandings of what constitutes disability are connected to understandings of time and the idea of a normative life course, which in turn builds on ableist norms. The idea of ability as the desirable normal state creates a realm of compulsory able-bodidness. Everybody that falls outside this hegemonic assumption is culturally deviant and wrong. Crip time creates an understanding of time that differs from ableist time and unravels the social construction of ability. Crip time is approached from multiple perspectives in this special section and traverse a number of disciplines and different methodologies.

Research PaperSelf-representations on social media. Reproducing and challenging discourses on disability ☆ Représentations de soi sur les réseaux sociaux. Reproduire ou défier les discours sur le handicap Coppélie Cocq a, ⁎

Previous research has pointed to the fact that ideological images of geographies are bound up with the ongoing struggle for economic and social resources, and that moral values and emotions are central in rendering such images intelligible and accepted. To explore this further, we critically engage with the ways in which moral values and emotions contribute to the (re)production of centres and peripheries in the Swedish news press reports of public-sector job relocations. We deploy the discourse theoretical notion of ideological fantasy to critically explain the forces that make particular moral and emotional judgements comprehensible. We identify two discourses in the news press material-one about competence and one about compensation-built up by morally and emotionally charged articulations. We argue that ideological fantasies worked as driving forces both in this moral and emotional news debate and also in the ongoing constitution of geographies. Géographies morales de la délocalisation de l'emploi dans le secteur public: discours de compensation et de compétence dans la presse suédoise RÉSUMÉ Les recherches ont démontré que les images idéologiques des géographies sont liées à la lutte actuelle pour les ressources économiques et sociales et que les valeurs morales et les émotions sont essentielles pour rendre de telles images intelligibles et acceptées. Pour une exploration approfondie, nous faisons une analyse critique des manières dont les valeurs morales et les émotions contribuent à la (re)production de centres et de périphéries dans les reportages de la presse suédoise sur les délocalisations des emplois du secteur public. Nous déployons la notion de discours théorique du rêve idéologique pour expliquer de façon critique les forces qui rendent certains jugements moraux et émotionnels compréhensibles. Nous identifions deux discours dans les documents de presse-un sur la compétence et un sur la compensation-accumulés à travers des articulations empreintes de valeurs morales et d'émotions. Nous arguons que les rêves idéologiques ont agi en tant que moteurs puissants à la fois dans le débat moral et émotionnel dans l'actualité et dans la constitution en cours des géographies.