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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Further new publications:

Kainradl, Anna-Christina; Kukovetz, Brigitte; Sprung, Annette (2023): "Lifeworld-oriented educational work with older participants in precarious life situations. Experiences from the participatory project 'Caring Living Labs Graz: Living well in old age'". in: Magazin erwachsenenbildung.at. 50. 2023. 93-101.

Wegleitner, Klaus; Schuchter, Patrick (2023). "Alleviating social pain as a task of caring communities. Care potentials of caring communities in dealing with total pain." In: Heimerl, Katharina; Millius, Sabine (eds.): Total Pain in Palliative Geriatrics. Bern. Hogrefe Publishers. 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 (ed.): 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 (eds.): 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 (eds.): 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 (eds.): 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 as "seedlings" of social transformation?" In: Sempach, Robert; Steinebach, Christoph; Zängl, Peter (eds.): Care creates community - community needs care. Wiesbaden. Springer VS . 2023. 49-73. doi:10.1007/978-3-658-32554-1_3

Schweigler, Stefan (2023): "Tactically 'misplaced' images of queer concern. On reinterpretations of sanctioned visibility." In: Barbara Paul/Andrea Seier (eds.): Defending Betroffenheit. Self-thematization in art and media. Berlin. Neofelis. tba.

Schweigler, Stefan (2023). "In the Structure of Gender, Queerness and Dis/Ability. T11 Incomplete as a cinematic negotiation of concepts of care." In: Julia Bee/Irina Gradinari/Katrin Köppert (eds.): digital gender - de:mapping politics. Speculating with 30 objects. Leipzig. Spector. tba.