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Ageing, Materiality, the Body and Everyday Life
Ageing, Materiality, the Body and Everyday Life
Abstract Submissions Closed
Wednesday, 24 February 2021: 16:00-17:30
Location:
RC11 Sociology of Aging (host committee)
Language: English
Session Type: Oral
Studies of ageing, as part of the wider cultural turn, have increasingly engaged with questions of materiality. Through the exploration of the role of stuff, things, dress, possessions, technologies, the visual, spaces, atmospheres, design and environments in the experiences and perceptions of ageing, materiality offers novel perspectives through which to explore the embodied lives of older people, highlighting interconnections between the corporeality of ageing bodies and the socio-cultural context in the everyday lives of people as they grow older.
The aim of this session is to bring together academics and researchers whose work focuses on ageing, materiality, embodiment and everyday life to explore and debate different theoretical perspectives, methodological approaches and empirical findings. In particular, the aim is to explore and highlight how a focus on materiality may open up new theoretical and methodological possibilities that elicit rich and illuminating accounts of people’s daily lives in mid to later life.
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