Apologies for cross-posting. Please find below a Call for Papers for a
panel at the SIEF2019, taking place 14-17 April 2019. It is titled
"Practices
and materialisations of active ageing". Those working on ageing and care
at the intersection of STS and anthropology might find it interesting. The
deadline for submitting a paper is the 15/10/2018.
Kind regards
Daniel López Gómez and Aske Juul Lassen
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PANEL: "PRACTICES AND MATERIALISATIONS OF ACTIVE AGEING"
SIEF2019 14th Congress.
Santiago de Compostela, Spain
14-17 April 2019
Deadline for submitting papers: 15/10/2018
Submit a paper here:
https://nomadit.co.uk/sief/sief2019/conferencesuite.php/panels/7126
Convenors
Aske Juul Lassen (University of Copenhagen) email
Daniel Lopez Gomez (Universitat Oberta de Catalunya) email
Short abstract
The life course is being reconfigured through ideals of active ageing. This
panel tracks the changes in the practices of old age, and inquire into how
active ageing has materialised in new technologies, digitalisations,
dwellings and imaginaries, and positioned old age as an active phase of
life.
Long abstract
Since the 1990s, active ageing has changed the ways old age has been
organised and configured. Active ageing is a fusion of many different
ageing theories positioning ageing as malleable, and different kinds of
activities as rejuvenating (Lassen & Moreira 2014). With the ageing
populations, the healthy generations currently entering old age and the
call for an overall change in the ways we perceive old age, active ageing
has spread from political forums in the EU and WHO, to local forms of
governance, the silver economy and the everyday lives of older people.
While active ageing has been widely studied and criticised, most of these
studies have been conceptual and discursive. Only few studies have inquired
into practices, technologies and material interventions that pursue active
ageing. However, with an increasing interest for socio-gerontechnology and
the socio-material constitution of later life by ethnologists,
gerontologists and STS researchers, the time is ripe to inquire into one of
the major transformations of the 21st century: the reconfiguration of the
life course and the practices, policies and technologies forming this
change.
With this panel, we wish to track the changes of old age in the slipstream
of active ageing policies and discourses, and inquire into how active
ageing has materialised in various ways. We encourage papers that ask what
kinds of new practices, tracks, technologies, infrastructures, rituals,
digitalisations, dwellings and imaginaries that have emerged from the ways
active ageing position old age as a new, active phase of life
Daniel López Gómez
IN3 - Internet Interdisciplinary Institute
CareNet Research Group
Estudis de Psicologia i Ciències de l'Educació
Associate Professor
(+34) 933 263 681
dlopezgo@uoc.edu
carenet.in3.uoc.edu
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Av. Carl Friedrich Gauss, 5
08860 Castelldefels
in3.uoc.edu
epce.uoc.edu
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