230
New Perspectives on Ageing Futures

Friday, 20 July 2018: 15:30-17:20
Location: 204 (MTCC NORTH BUILDING)
RC11 Sociology of Aging (host committee)

Language: English

This session invites papers of original research that explore ageing futures through critical sociological and interdisciplinary perspectives.  According to Nikolas Rose, ‘contemporary biopolitics is infused with futurity, saturated with anticipations of imagined futures’.  How such biopolitics is connected to age and ageing forms the theme of this session.  Topics may include the construction of ‘futurity’ around aging populations, the biomedicalization of longevity, anti-aging culture and technologies, age studies and knowledge-making into future, new bio-gerontological forms of life, the future of intergenerational ethics, new age categories and standards, post-traditional life-courses, the globalization of ageing, design futures for ageing spaces, risk and uncertainty, new genres of meaning and identity, cities and nations of age, future temporalities and everyday life, and the political futures of health and care regimes.  The overall aim of the session is to expand scholarship beyond current economic, demographic and medical models of ageing futures to encompass a broader critical thought space that looks ahead to what future probabilities and possibilities are emerging from the social, technological, scientific, governmental, cultural and global processes of ageing in the present.
Session Organizer:
Stephen KATZ, Trent University, Canada
Oral Presentations
230.1
Queering Aging Futures
Linn J. SANDBERG, Department of Culture and Education, Södertörn University, Sweden; Barbara MARSHALL, Trent University, Canada
230.2
“Hack Your Age”: Anti-Aging Technology, Biohacking, and the Pursuit of the Optimal Self
Kirsten ELLISON, University of Calgary, Canada
230.3
Food Biomedicalization and Self-Tracking Technologies: How Is “Healthy Ageing Body” (re)Defined?
Myriam DUROCHER, Université de Montréal, Canada
230.4
Active and Successful Ageing. Toward a Performativity of a Regulatory Regime
Malou WINDELER, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany
230.5
Measuring Biological Age: How Biomarkers of Ageing Shape Ageing Futures
Asger HANSEN, University of Copenhagen, Faculty of Humanities, Copenhagen Centre for Health Research in the Humanities, Denmark; Aske Juul LASSEN, University of Copenhagen, Faculty of Humanities, Copenhagen Centre for Health Research in the Humanities, Denmark; Tiago MOREIRA, School of Applied Social Sciences, Durham University, United Kingdom
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