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Vera-Sanso, Penny (2023) Will the SDGs and UN Decade of Healthy Ageing leave older people behind? Progress in Development Studies 23 (4), pp. 391-407. ISSN 1464-9934.

Vera-Sanso, Penny and Hlabana, T. (2023) Situating masculinity, labour migration and care over the life course in Lesotho: foregrounding survivor bias in researching care. International Journal of Care and Caring , ISSN 2397-883X.

Vera-Sanso, Penny (2016) What is preventing India from developing an inclusive national framework for older people? Population Horizons 12 (2), pp. 77-87. ISSN 1746-1081.

Vera-Sanso, Penny (2015) The health costs of bolstering the Indian economy. Global Ageing: Issues & Action 9 (2), pp. 15-19. ISSN 1729-3472.

Harriss-White, B. and Olsen, W. and Vera-Sanso, Penny and Suresh, V. (2013) Multiple shocks and slum household economies in South India. Economy and Society 42 (3), pp. 398-429. ISSN 0308-5147.

Vera-Sanso, Penny (2012) Gender, poverty and old-age livelihoods in urban south India in an era of globalisation. Oxford Development Studies 40 (3), pp. 324-340. ISSN 1360-0818.

Vera-Sanso, Penny and Sweetman, C. (2009) Editorial. Gender & Development 17 (3), pp. 365-376. ISSN 1355-2074.

Vera-Sanso, Penny (2008) Whose money is it? on misconceiving female autonomy and economic empowerment in low-income households. IDS Bulletin 39 (6), pp. 51-59. ISSN 0265-5012.

Vera-Sanso, Penny (2007) Increasing consumption, decreasing support: a multi-generational study of family relations among South Indian Chakkliyars. Contributions to Indian Sociology 41 (2), pp. 225-248. ISSN 0069-9667.

Vera-Sanso, Penny (2006) Experiences in old age: a South Indian example of how functional age is socially structured. Oxford Development Studies 34 (4), pp. 457-472. ISSN 1360-0818.

Vera-Sanso, Penny (2004) Modeling intergenerational relations in South India. Generations Review 14 , pp. 21-23.

Vera-Sanso, Penny (2000) Masculinity, male domestic authority and female labour participation in South India. The European Journal of Development Research 12 (2), pp. 179-198. ISSN 0957-8811.

Vera-Sanso, Penny (1999) Dominant daughters-in-law and submissive mothers-in-law? Co-operation and conflict in South India. Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute 5 (4), pp. 577-593. ISSN 1359-0987.

Vera-Sanso, Penny (1997) Household composition in Madras's low-income settlements. Review of Development and Change 2 (1), pp. 72-98.

Vera-Sanso, Penny (1995) Community, seclusion and female labour force participation in Madras, India. Third World Planning Review 17 (2), pp. 155-157. ISSN 0142-7849.

Editorial/Introduction

Vera-Sanso, Penny and Vullnetari, J. and Bastia, T. (2023) Ageing and later life: unsettling development assumptions. [Editorial/Introduction] (In Press)

Book Section

Vera-Sanso, Penny (2022) Ageing and development. In: Sims, K. and Banks, N. and Engel, S. and Hodge, P. and Makuwira, J. and Nakamura, N. and Rigg, J. and Salamanca, A. and Yeophantong, P. (eds.) The Routledge Handbook of Global Development. Routledge International Handbooks. Abingdon, UK: Routledge. ISBN 9780367862022.

Vera-Sanso, Penny (2018) Ageing, poverty and neoliberalism in urban South India. In: Walker, A. (ed.) The New Dynamics of Ageing. The New Dynamics of Ageing. Bristol, UK: Policy Press. ISBN 9781447314738.

Vera-Sanso, Penny (2017) Urbanisation and later life. In: Till, C. and Amos, S. and O’Neill, K. (eds.) Investing in an Ageing World: Shifting debates from costs to investments. London: HelpAge International, pp. 82-96. ISBN 9781910743218.

Vera-Sanso, Penny (2016) Stigmatised, marginalised and overlooked: health, later life and gender in India and the United Kingdom. In: Gideon, Jasmine (ed.) Handbook on Gender and Health. International Handbooks on Gender. Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar. ISBN 9781784710859.

Vera-Sanso, Penny and Barrientos, A. and Damodaran, L. and Gilhooly, K. and Goulding, A. and Hennessy, C. and Means, R. and Murray, M. and Newman, A. and Olphert, W. and Tew, P. and Thompson, J. and Victor, C. and Walford, N. (2014) Participation and social connectivity. In: Walker, A. (ed.) The New Science of Aging. Bristol, UK: Policy Press. ISBN 9781447314677.

Vera-Sanso, Penny (2014) Reconceiving the impact of population change: a class- and gender-based analysis of ageing in poverty in urban South India. In: Gooptu, N. and Parry, J. (eds.) Persistence of Poverty in India. New Delhi, India: Orient BlackSwan. ISBN 9789383166046.

Vera-Sanso, Penny (2014) "Whose money is it?": on misconceiving female autonomy and economic empowerment in low-income households. In: Chant, S. and Beetham, G. (eds.) Gender, Poverty, and Development. Routledge. ISBN 9780415711951.

Vera-Sanso, Penny (2013) Aging, work and the demographic dividend in South Asia. In: Field, J. and Burke, R.J. and Cooper, C.L. (eds.) The SAGE Handbook of Aging, Work and Society. London, UK: Sage, pp. 170-185. ISBN 9781446207826.

Vera-Sanso, Penny (2010) Gender, urban poverty and ageing in India: conceptual and policy issues. In: Chant, S. (ed.) The International Handbook of Gender and Poverty: Concepts, Research, Policy. Elgar Original Reference. Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar, pp. 220-225. ISBN 9781848443341.

Vera-Sanso, Penny (2008) Experiences in old age: a south Indian example of how functional age is socially structured. In: Goodman, R. and Harper, S. (eds.) Ageing in Asia: Asia’s Position in the New Global Demography. Abingdon, UK: Routledge. ISBN 9780415464260.

Vera-Sanso, Penny (2006) Conformity and contestation: social heterogeneity in South Indian settlements. In: de Neve, G. and Donner, H. (eds.) The Meaning of the Local: Politics of Place in Urban India. Abingdon, UK: UCL Press, pp. 182-205. ISBN 9781844721140.

Vera-Sanso, Penny (2005) "They don’t need it, and I can’t give it": filial support in South India. In: Kreager, P. and Schröder-Butterfill, E. (eds.) Ageing Without Children: European and Asian Perspectives on Elderly Access to Support Networks. Fertility, Reproduction and Sexuality 6. Oxford, UK: Berghahn Books, pp. 77-105. ISBN 9781571816146.

Vera-Sanso, Penny (2004) They don't need it and I can't give it: filial support in South India. In: Kreager, P. and Schröder-Butterfill, E. (eds.) Ageing Without Children: European and Asian Perspectives on Elderly Access to Support Networks. Oxford, UK: Berghahn Books, pp. 77-105. ISBN 9781845450410.

Vera-Sanso, Penny (2001) Masculinity, male domestic authority and female labour participation in South India. In: Jackson, C. (ed.) Men at Work: Men, Masculinities, Development. London, UK: Frank Cass, pp. 179-198. ISBN 9780714651439.

Vera-Sanso, Penny (2000) Risk-talk: the politics of risk and its representation. In: Caplan, P. (ed.) Risk Revisited. London, UK: Pluto Press, pp. 108-132. ISBN 9780745314631.

Vera-Sanso, Penny (1998) Risk talk: the politics of risk and its representation. In: Caplan, P. (ed.) Risk Revisited. London, UK: Pluto Press, pp. 108-132. ISBN http://www.plutobooks.com/.

Vera-Sanso, Penny (1993) Perceptions east and west: a Madras encounter. In: Bell, D. and Caplan, P. and Karim, W.J. (eds.) Gendered Fields: Women, Men and Ethnography. Abingdon, UK: Routledge, pp. 159-167. ISBN 9780415062527.

Vera-Sanso, Penny Are older people a burden? challenging the myths. In: UNSPECIFIED (ed.) Facing the Facts: the Truth about Ageing and Development. London, UK: Age International, pp. 21-23.

Conference or Workshop Item

Vera-Sanso, Penny (2010) Ageing, poverty and neoliberalism in urban South India. In: Global Ageing and Development - Where Next?, 20 Dec 2010, London, UK.

Vera-Sanso, Penny (2006) Intergenerational relations in India: unpacking assumptions. In: The 19th European Conference on Modern South Asia, 2006, Leiden, The Netherlands. (Unpublished)

Video

Vera-Sanso, Penny and Suresh, V. and Dhanraj, D. (2013) We're still working. [Video]