Dear colleagues,
We invite paper submissions to the panel ‘Navigating rupture and continuity
in older life worlds in urban Africa' at the next ECAS conference in
Edinburgh.
Please share widely in your networks.
To submit an abstract:
https://nomadit.co.uk/ecas/ecas2019/conferencesuite.php/panels/7431
Deadline: 21 January
Convenors
Katie McQuaid (University of Leeds)
Ross Wignall (Oxford Brookes University)
Short abstract
This panel explores the relational life-worlds of older Africans. Focusing
on how they navigate urban landscapes and infrastructures we ask how they
create varied forms of social and economic value that help urban
populations cope with the ruptures and disruptions of everyday life in
African cities.
Long abstract
Based on recent discussions in anthropology and geography around the
neglect of older people in urban African policies, this panel aims to
explore the agency and relational life worlds of older Africans as they
navigate the fractured landscapes and infrastructures of expanding urban
centres. Whilst older people remain among the most excluded and vulnerable
urban residents (UN-Habitat, 2010) they remain largely invisible in urban
policy and development discourse where they are frequently characterised as
dependent. We invite papers that offer a broader understanding of older
people's roles within social and economic infrastructures, and confront the
difficult issues of unprecedented population ageing and urbanisation in
contexts where health and socio-economic policy frameworks to support
ageing residents are failing or absent. We seek papers that demonstrate the
heterogeneity of older populations and attend to them as competent and
dynamic social actors. We especially invite submissions that move beyond
characterisations of older people as care-givers or care-receivers, and
rather explore how care forms one strand of the diverse and complex roles,
livelihoods and experiences of older people across Africa. By focusing on
how older people create continuities between rural/urban, national/
transnational and other spaces we ask how they both consolidate on and
create forms of social and economic value that help urban populations cope
with the ruptures and disruptions of everyday life in the African city.
Best wishes,
Ross
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Dr Ross Wignall
Lecturer in Social Anthropology
Faculty of Humanities & Social Sciences
Oxford Brookes University
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