ABSTRACT
This chapter explores the drivers of an ageing population, found them to be in part both the decision making and empowerment of younger women making reproductive choices and the longeveity of relatively active older women. This raises important questions over the place of women in generation theory, and the possibility of innovations in generationalism in the future. The chapter considers the cultural consequences of large and active ageing populations. It poses whether the future of generationalism lies not with the model of the young men of the past but the senior women of the future. Youth are displaced and the inter-generational structure has and assumes increasingly important consequences for the financial and emotional system of the next emergent phase of capitalism. The possibilities for generational formation and expression in the future are rich and hugely interesting: the past may well have been White, male, young and European but there is nothing to really indicate that this should remain the case.
