The Association of Aging, Gerontology, and the Life Course (AAGE) is hosting a discussion of Tanja Ahlin’s Calling Family: Digital Technologies and the Making of Transnational Care Collectives (Rutgers University Press, 2023) via Zoom on Friday, April 12, 12-1pm (Eastern North America). About the book: How do digital technologies shape both how people care for […]
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On Friday, February 9th, 12-1pm (Eastern North America), we will be discussing Alana Lee Glaser’s Solidarity and Care: Domestic Worker Activism in New York City (Temple University Press, 2023), via Zoom. About the book: The members of the Domestic Workers United (DWU) organization—immigrant women of color employed as nannies, caregivers, and housekeepers in New York
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The Association of Aging, Gerontology, and the Life Course (AAGE) is hosting a discussion of Diete Humblet’s The Older Prisoner (Palgrave Macmillan, 2021) on Friday, January 12, 2024, 12-1pm (Eastern, North America) via Zoom. About the book: This book critically explores the world of older prisoners to provide a more nuanced understanding of imprisonment at
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The Association of Aging, Gerontology, and the Life Course (AAGE) is hosting a discussion of Amanda Grenier’s Late-Life Homelessness: Experiences of Disadvantage and Unequal Aging (McGill-Queens University Press, 2022) on Friday, December 8, 12-1pm (Eastern, North America). About the book: Around the world and across a range of contexts, homelessness among older people is on
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Our next book discussion will be on Anita Hannig’s The Day I Die: The Untold Story of Assisted Dying in America (Sourcebooks, 2022) on Friday, November 10, 12-1pm (Eastern, North America). About the book: Lyrical and lucid, sensitive but never sentimental, The Day I Die tackles one of the most urgent social issues of our
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