Contributions by Nassim W. Balestrini; Julia Hoydis; Anna-Christina Kainradl; Ulla Kriebernegg; Albert Banerjee; Simon Dickel; Katrina Dunn; Jade E. French; Michaela Schrage-Früh; Silvia Gerlsbeck; Stephen Hahn; Julia Henderson; Christian Lenz; Tina-Karen Pusse; Núria Mina-Riera; Adrian Tait and Peter J. Whitehouse

Aging Studies and Ecocriticism: Interdisciplinary Encounters argues that both aging studies and ecocriticism address the complex dynamics of individual and collective agency, oppression and dependency, care and conviviality, vulnerability and resistance as well as intergenerationality and responsibility. Yet, even though both fields employ overlapping methodologies and theoretical frameworks and scrutinize “boundary texts” in different literary genres, which have been analyzed from ecocritical perspectives as well as from the vantage point of critical aging studies, there has been little scholarly interaction between ecocritical literary studies and aging studies to date. The contributors in this volume demonstrate the potential of specific genres to narrate relationality and age, and the aesthetic and ethical challenges of imagining changes, endings, and survival in the Anthropocene. As the first step towards putting both fields in conversation, this collection offers new pathways into understanding human and nonhuman ecological relations.

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Weitere Neuerscheinungen:

Kainradl, Anna-Christina; Kukovetz, Brigitte; Sprung, Annette (2023): "Lebensweltorientierte Bildungsarbeit mit älteren Teilnehmenden in prekären Lebenslagen. Erfahrungen aus dem partizipativen Projekt 'Caring Living Labs Graz: Gut leben im Alter'“. In: Magazin erwachsenenbildung.at. 50. 2023. 93-101.

Wegleitner, Klaus; Schuchter, Patrick (2023). "Den sozialen Schmerz lindern als Aufgabe sorgender Gemeinschaften. Sorgepotentiale von Caring Communities im Umgang mit Total Pain." In: Heimerl, Katharina; Millius, Sabine (Hg.): Total Pain in der Palliativen Geriatrie. Bern. Hogrefe Verlag. 2023. 283 - 292. 

Patrick Schuchter, Stefanie V. Rieger, Sandra Radinger, Klaus Wegleitner (2023): "Last questions: How philosophical practice contributes to developing death literacy." In: Dr. Georg Bollig (Hg.): Palliative Care - Current Practice and FuturePerspectives. London. IntechOpen. 2023.

Balestrini, Nassim; Hoydis, Julia; Kainradl, Anna-Christina; Kriebernegg, Ulla (2023): "Time, Relationality, and Fears of Ending: Encounters between Aging Studies and Ecocriticism." In: Balestrini, Nassim; Hoydis, Julia; Kainradl Anna-Christina; Kriebernegg, Ulla (Hg.): Aging Studies and Ecocriticism: Interdisciplinary Encounters. Lanham. Lexington. 1-19.

Goggin, Peter; Kriebernegg, Ulla (2023): "Ageing and Youthing: Portrayals of Progression and Regression in Science Fiction Film and TV." In: Oro-Piqueras, Maricel; Falcus, Sarah (Hg.): Age and Ageing in Contemporary Speculative and Science Fiction. New York. Bloomsbury. 2023. 30-47.

Kainradl, Anna-Christina, and Kriebernegg, Ulla (2023): "Narratives of Old Age and Climate Change: Silver Tsunamis and Rising Tides." In: Sarah Falcus, Heike Hartung, Raquel Medina (Hg.): The Bloomsbury Handbook to Ageing in Contemporary Literature and Film. New York. Bloomsbury. 2023. 269-279.

Wegleitner, Klaus; Schuchter, Patrick; Kainradl, Anna-Christina: "Caring Communities als „Keimlinge“ gesellschaftlicher Transformation?" In: Sempach, Robert; Steinebach, Christoph; Zängl, Peter (Hg.): Care schafft Community – Community braucht Care. Wiesbaden. Springer VS . 2023. 49–73. doi:10.1007/978-3-658-32554-1_3

Schweigler, Stefan (2023): "Taktisch ,deplatzierte‘ Bilder queerer Betroffenheit. Über Umdeutungen von sanktionierter Sichtbarkeit." In: Barbara Paul/Andrea Seier (Hg.): Betroffenheit Verteidigen. Selbstthematisierung in Kunst und Medien. Berlin. Neofelis. tba.

Schweigler, Stefan (2023). "Im Gefüge von Gender, Queerness und Dis/Ability. T11 Incomplete als filmische Verhandlung von Sorgebegriffen." In: Julia Bee/Irina Gradinari/Katrin Köppert (Hg.): digital gender – de:mapping politics. Spekulieren mit 30 Objekten. Leipzig. Spector. tba.