More-than-Human Aging

Animals, Robots, and Care in Later Life
What does later life look like when it is lived in the companionship of other species? Similarly, how do other species age (or not) with humans, and what sort of (a)symmetries, if any, are brought to light around how we understand and think about aging? So far, aging has been investigated in the social sciences in purely human terms. This is the first collection of original work that considers aging as taking place in relation to other species. This volume aims to start a conversation about aging by taking its more-than-human participants seriously-that is, not only as a support for or context of human aging but also, more symmetrically, as agents and subjects in the process of aging. The contributors draw upon richly descriptive ethnographic accounts, including moments of connection between seniors and dogs in a long-term care facility, human care for aging laboratory animals, and robotic companionship in later life. The ethnographies in this volume not only enrich our understanding of more-than-human companionship during the human aging process but also challenge and urge us to rethink what it means to live later in life in ecologically entangled social and moral worlds.

Contributor: Jay Sokolovsky (Foreword by), Susan McHugh (Afterword by), Vanessa Ashall (Contributions by), Katie Brittain (Contributions by), Ardra Cole (Contributions by), Cathrine Degnen (Contributions by), Cristina Douglas (Contributions by), Carrie Friese (Contributions by), Ruud Hendriks (Contributions by), Larissa Hjorth (Contributions by), Samantha Hurn (Contributions by), Ike Kamphof (Contributions by), Joanna Elizabeth Latimer (Contributions by), Daniel López Gómez (Contributions by), Susan MacLeod (Contributions by), Ingrid Richardson (Contributions by), Nete Schwennesen (Contributions by), Lesley Sharp (Contributions by), Andrew Whitehouse (Contributions by)

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