The British Association of South Asian Studies (BASAS) annual conference
seeks to bring together the latest scholarship in the field of South Asian
studies in Britain and abroad.
BASAS 2017 will be hosted by the University of Nottingham’s Institute of
Asia and Pacific Studies (IAPS) and Nottingham Trent University’s
Postcolonial Studies Centre.
http://basas.org.uk/news-events/calendar/basas-annual-conference-2017/
*We invite paper proposals to join our panel submission on the theme:*
*Ageing, death, body, care: ethnographies of South Asia’s gerontological
turn*
Over the past decade, South Asia’s rapid demographic transition has led to
profound changes in the social, medical, and moral construction of ageing
people and ageing bodies – amounting to a gerontological turn in social and
political discourse and practice. This extends to fundamental questions of
how new economic and social trends are transforming familial care roles,
the growth of public, private, and charity sector providers offering social
protection and health services, an emerging stage of life defined by
retirement and the spending power of the ‘Grey Rupee,’ to ways of planning
for, managing, and memorialising frailty, dying, and the dead. In a context
where the problems of youth un/under-employment, politics, and revolt had
diverted policy, public, and academic attention for much of the twentieth
century, ‘the ageing population’ as a societal condition is becoming a
dominant trope of early twenty-first century South Asian life. Ageing
people and ageing bodies are thus problematized in particular kinds of
ways, but also call into being alternative structures and processes driving
societal transformation and opportunity.
Our panel invites ethnographically informed explorations of South Asia’s
gerontological turn. Please send paper abstracts of up to 200 words to us
by Monday 28th November ([log in to unmask]). Successful submissions
will be included alongside our panel proposal for consideration by the
conference organisers.
Dr Tom Widger & Dr Mirihini Sirisena
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