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****Apologies for cross-posting**** Dear colleagues, The call for papers is now open for all panels at the 2018 European Association of Social Anthropologists (EASA) Biennial Conference. The conference will take place 14-17 August 2018 at Stockholm University in Stockholm, Sweden. This year will also be the first conference for the new EASA Age and Generations Network. If you are interested in care in later life, then consider submitting a paper to the Age and Generations Network panel P079 "Staying, moving, (re)settling: Transitioning practices, actors and places of care in later life". The call for papers will end on 9 April. Please submit through the NomadIT portal on the website: https://nomadit.co.u k/easa/easa2018/conferencesuite.php/panels/6607. *Please share widely across your networks. We are keen to receive paper proposals from non-anthropologists as well, including: sociologists, social gerontologists, human geographers, occupational therapists, and related disciplines. Any geographical region is acceptable.* Panel P079 - Staying, moving, (re)settling: Transitioning practices, actors and places of care in later life [Age and Generations Network] Matthew Lariviere (University of Sheffield) Denise de Waal (University of Bradford ) Abstract Later life, as with other stages of the life-course, is marked by periods of transition. Older people inhabit a diverse range of spaces including their home, homes of friends/relatives, hospitals, community care centres, day centres, care homes and nursing homes. Each presents their own situated assemblages involving diverse sets of spaces, actors, practices and relations. Some older adults continue to stay in their own homes with the support of domiciliary care, assistive technologies and family carers thereby realising current policy agendas for "successful ageing" and "ageing in place". Yet older adults may experience disruptions and transformations in where and how they live out their later years inviting a range of new spaces, actors and practices into their everyday lives and care arrangements. The theme for this conference presents the opportunity to critically consider empirical and theoretical work from social anthropologists, gerontologists and cognate disciplines interested in places occupied in later life and how periods involving staying, moving, and (re)settling into strange and familiar places affects everyday life and situated care practices. Papers might explore: • Medicalisation of ageing and its effect on domestic/family relations • Digitalisation of care and its effect on distant care arrangements • Transitions from home to institutionalised care settings (and back) • Meanings of "home" when living with cognitive impairments or dementias • Changes in everyday practices from the third to fourth age of life • Intergenerational care arrangements in the community • Professionalising care work and distinctions between private/public spaces We look forward to your submissions! Kind regards, Matthew and Denise Matthew LARIVIERE Innovation Fellow (Care, Ageing and Technology) ESRC Sustainable Care Programme <https://twitter.com/MattLariv> [image: https://twitter.com/MattLariv] <https://twitter.com/MattLariv> <https://www.linkedin.com/in/mlariviere/> [image: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Matthew_Lariviere] <https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Matthew_Lariviere> Fourth Floor, Interdisciplinary Centre of the Social Sciences Faculty of Social Sciences University of Sheffield Sheffield S1 4DP E-mail: [log in to unmask] Phone: 0114 222 8359 --------------- This message was sent through the ESA Research Network on Ageing in Europe (RN1) mailing list. For the Ageing in Europe website please visit: http://www.ageing-in-europe.net/ To unsubscribe from this mailing list, please visit: http://ageing-in-europe.net/mailinglist.html ---------------