Critical studies of aging need to consider how globalisation accelerates crises like climate change with impacts for the conditions of ageing. This chapter argues that research on ageing tends to consider policy change at the local or nation-state level. Yet, within and across jurisdictions, there is an increasing ‘longevity divide’, affected by economic globalisation, climate change, the rise of ‘diagonal’ alt-right politics, expansions of economic freedoms and erosions of political freedoms. However, older activists are showing how assaults on equity can be resisted and solidarities can be formed. Taking the research in the volume as a jumping off point, this chapter reaches forward to pose the critical questions that face researchers and advocates who aim to contribute to more equitable aging.
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