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“The Taking Place of Older Age” Seminar by Amy Barron
					
 Nov 28, 2023 
 2:30PM to 3:30PM

									

				

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	Date/Time

	Date(s) - 28/11/2023
2:30 pm - 3:30 pm







Hybrid Seminar (LRW 1003 Community Room and Via Zoom)


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Dr Amy Barron is a Lecturer in Social and Cultural Geography at the University of Manchester. She is interested in age, ageing and the life-course and approaches these themes through ‘non’ or ‘more-than-representational’ approaches. While Amy’s research to date has focused on older age, she is currently researching middle-age and mid-life, from a life-course perspective. Amy draws on a suite of creative, participatory research methods.


Representations of older age are often reductive in western societies, portrayed as a distinct period of life characterised by social disengagement and physiological decline. Through rich ethnographic accounts developed with older people from Greater Manchester UK, this paper is concerned with how the category of older age is made through representations, and the different ways people encounter and relate to it. In doing so, it disrupts reductive representations by considering how older age is lived. I respond to calls for the incorporation of more-than-representational and affective approaches into the geographic study of older age to advance research on ageing and highlight affect as a useful concept for thinking through difference. The paper is concerned with how older people are represented, with how representations differentially affect and are affected by older individuals, and with how representations of older age are performed and folded into lived accounts. More-than-representational theories offer an understanding of older age that is not pre-given or free-standing, but as something which can emerge, gather and disperse in relation with materialities as well as diffuse atmospheres, affects and emotional resonances.


All seminars will be held via zoom, with the option to attend an in-person viewing session live in L.R.Wilson Hall, Room 1003 at the McMaster Campus. If zoom is new to you, check out our Zoom Guide here: GilbreaZoomTutorial