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Bodies in e-lit

In this chapter, we offer a survey of electronic literature (“e-literature” or “e-lit”) that deals with embodiment, corporeality, and body image in aesthetic and material ways. We begin with an examination of e-literature that foregrounds the post-human body as embedded in the cybernetic feedback loop in ways that debunk Cartesian dichotomies of mind/body and human/machine […]

Astrid EnsslinCarla RiceSarah RileyChristine WilksMegan PerramHannah FowlieLauren MunroAly Bailey

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Projecting eugenics and performing knowledges

This chapter examines how Canadian educational institutions played a key role in the early twentieth-century eugenics movement, entwined with legacies of British colonial policies and practices, by constructing and perpetuating destructive knowledges. The transfer of oppressive knowledge became evident through a close reading of archival documents that uncovered three decades of eugenics at a Canadian […]

Carla RiceEvadne KellySeika Boye

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Aging with and into disability: Futurities of new materialisms

In this chapter, we argue that aging with and into disability unsettles and challenges both cultural representations of aging solely as decline and of disability as separate and shorn from growing old. We develop this argument through analyzing six narrative films made by diversely located people living with mind/body differences. The films were produced as […]

Nadine ChangfootCarla Rice

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Regulation of “care” in long-term care home in Ontario, Canada

In Ontario, long-term care (LTC) is available in various settings, such as private residences and institutions, but this chapter focuses solely on institutional or facility-based care for older adults. This form of care is generally regarded as the last resort for individuals who can no longer reside in the community, such as those who need […]

Poland Lai

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Aging and disability in the time of AIDS: Reflections from community-based research with older women caregivers in South Africa

Approximately 36.7 million people worldwide live with HIV, 19.0 million of them in Southern and Eastern Africa (UNAIDS 2015). HIV prevalence in South Africa’s province of KwaZulu-Natal is among the highest in the world; some 40 percent of women attending antenatal clinics in the province test positive for the virus (Department of Health 2010). In […]

May Chazen

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Cripping care advice: Austerity, advice literature, and the troubled link between disability and old age

Disability and old age might seem automatically to fit together, since growing older often comes with changes to capacities and functions. But old people are not necessarily disabled, and disabled people are not necessarily old. Older adults often don’t want to be seen as disabled and assert their independence, as well as their physical and […]

Sally Chivers

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Dancing in and out of control

It is difficult to ignore the manner in which the media draw attention to Canada’s changing demographic profile. The anticipated grey tsunami is portrayed as an added expense for family members (Canadian Broadcasting Corporation 2017) and as straining the budgets of governments (Canadian Broadcasting Corporation 2015). Alongside such fearful predictions, another message is being put […]

Monique Lanoix

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From “Boomer” to “Zoomer”: Exploring cultural understandings of aging with vitality under neoliberal capitalism

This chapter fleshes out two prominent cultural figures: the familiar figure of the boomer and the more recently emerged figure of the zoomer. Whereas the boomer has long been a symbol of social prosperity and youthful vitality, its cultural meanings have shifted somewhat in recent years (Aubrecht 2015; Chivers 2011; Katz 2001; Twigg 2013). As […]

Anne McGuire

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Deconstructing dependency and development in global dementia policy

Global demographic reports and policy documents suggest that people in the developing world are living longer than ever before and are experiencing age-related changes in their health, as well as greater onset of multiple co-morbidities and chronic conditions, including dementia (United Nations 2015; WHO 2011). For example, two reports—World Population Ageing 2015 (United Nations 2015) […]

Katie AubrechtAkwasi Boafo

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Power, agency, aging, and cognitive impairment: The stories of two women

All of us get old if we are lucky, and disability is a natural part of human variation across the lifespan. Ability, indeed, is transient; no impenetrable boundary separates abled from disabled (Hansen, Janz, and Sobsey 2008). People move back and forth between ability and disability throughout their lives, depending on their physical and social […]

Nancy HansenMargaret Oldfield

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Age disability, and encounters with care: Older people’s experiences of home care

The passage above, from a 2011 report for the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, speaks to a widespread concern in polit- ical, popular, and academic discussions of aging societies: care. Concerns abound regarding the social, economic, and individual changes needed to look after the growing numbers of older people who experience physical and cognitive […]

Rachel BarkenAlan Santinele Martino

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Aging and disability: The paradoxical positions of the chronological life course

The experiences of older people and those with disabilities are commonly understood to unfold through patterns, events, and transitions throughout the life course. Lives are also seen as progressing against a backdrop of age-based markers, social relations, institutional boundaries, and cultural expectations. Heavily influenced by structural functionalist thinking, the standard model of the life course […]

Colleen McGrathAmanda GrenierMeridith Griffin

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Bodies in e-lit

Projecting eugenics and performing knowledges

Aging with and into disability: Futurities of new materialisms

Regulation of “care” in long-term care home in Ontario, Canada

Aging and disability in the time of AIDS: Reflections from community-based research with older women caregivers in South Africa

Cripping care advice: Austerity, advice literature, and the troubled link between disability and old age

Dancing in and out of control

From “Boomer” to “Zoomer”: Exploring cultural understandings of aging with vitality under neoliberal capitalism

Deconstructing dependency and development in global dementia policy

Power, agency, aging, and cognitive impairment: The stories of two women

Age disability, and encounters with care: Older people’s experiences of home care

Aging and disability: The paradoxical positions of the chronological life course