Linking Ages

Anna Wanka leads a DFG-funded Emmy-No ether research group on “Linking Ages – The Socio-Material Practices of Un/Doing Age across the Life-Course” at Goethe University, Frankfurt, Germany. Tabea Freutel-Funke, MA, is a researcher at the University of Stuttgart specialized in childhood and qualitative research methods and a first moment Linking Ages funding member and enthusiast. Sabine Andresen is Professor of Social Pedagogy and Family Research at the Department of Educational Sciences at the Goethe-University in Frankfurt/Main. Frank Oswald, PhD, is Professor for Interdisciplinary Ageing Research (IAW), Chair of the Frankfurt Forum for interdisciplinary Ageing Research (FFIA) at the Goethe University, Germany and Director of the Center AGING for Early Career Researcher at the Goethe Graduate Academy (GRADE).

Section I: Theories of childhood and later life

Linking Ages – An Invitation to a New Agenda in Life Stage Research

1. Age Matters: Linking Age-Related Concepts in Childhood and Ageing Research

2. I just want to help! – Autonomy violation in children and older adults

Section II: Method(ologie)s of childhood and ageing research

3. Rethinking Life Stories in the Context of Civic Engagement: The Life Diagram and its Potential for Ageing and Childhood Research

4. Linking Ages: Developing Walking Methods for Lifecourse Research

5. ‘I wish they’d stop eating the props!’ – Two Novice Researchers’ Refection on their Participatory Research with Children and Older People

6. Linking Ages - Reflexive Transition Research in Childhood and Later Life through Interpretations with Change of Sign

Section III: Empirical insights from a Linking-Ages perspective

IIIa. Ageing in time and place

7. Age Transitions Crossing Childhood, Youth and Old Age: Approaching Space and Age Relationally from an Urban Everyday Life Perspective

8. Age-based representations of time. Re-thinking temporalities through intergenerational encounters

IIIb. Playfulness as a link between childhood and later life

9. Play Across the Life Course: An Anthropology of Play in Childhood and Old Age

10. Planning for Play

IIIc. Growing up and old in a digitized world

11. Technological Relationality and Transforming Perceptions of Childhood

12. "What shall I write tomorrow?" When older women reclaim new life course on Facebook

IIId. Un/doing age in work and consumption

13. In and out of the labour market – A Linking Ages Perspective on labour market transitions in early and late adulthood

14. Different life phases and the limits of consumption: opportunities and barriers

IIIe. Experiencing violence in childhood and later life

15. Testimonies about child sexual abuse in the 1950s. Bearing witness and the concept of linking ages

16. Does an abusive family history cause elder abuse and neglect?

17. Protection From Violence in Home Care Settings for Older Adults and Lessons Learned from Child Protection

18. Un/Doing Violence and Un/Doing Care – Mapping Boundary-Making Practices of Violence in Elder Care from a Transdisciplinary Perspective

IIIf. Linking Ages perspectives on health and care

19. Children of old age? Infantilization of people living with dementia

20. To be Seen and Heard: Relational Caring Meets Lived Childhoods in Relationships Between Young Children and People Living with Dementia in Long-term Care Homes

21. The generational conflict as a social construct of certainty to manage the ambiguities of the corona crisis

IIIg. Children’s and older adults’ rights and wellbeing

22. ‘I thought I was going to die’: Bodily Autonomy and the Misuse of Restrictive Practices in Aged Care and Youth Detention Settings

23. Revisiting the Cascais Protocol – Age constructions and reconstruction in an ageing policy design process

24. Investigating the Association between Childhood Circumstances and Old Age Quality in Ghana

Conclusion

25. Conclusions: A Linking Ages Dialogue between Childhood, Age Studies, and Beyond