Publications
Cover Illustration: Hartmut Wilkening, “Vrij Geestig” (2010), (“Michel Foucault in
the Nursing Home”)
Putting Age in Its Place: Long-Term Residential Care in Contemporary Film and Fiction
How are long-term residential care and the construction of late-life identities linked in North American film and fiction? Through close readings of works by Margaret Atwood, Joan Barfoot, Oscar Casares, John Mighton and several others, Ulla Kriebernegg explores how the setting at the nexus of home, hospital, hotel and prison functions within the newly emerging genre of the care home novel. What role does this setting play in the narrative construction of old age, and what hopes and fears are revealed? Kriebernegg argues that the spatiality of ageing needs to be included in discussions of agency in later life and care in the face of vulnerability.
Aging Studies and Ecocriticism: Interdisciplinary Encounters
Edited by Nassim W. Balestrini, Julia Hoydis, Anna-Christina Kainradl, and Ulla Kriebernegg
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 Publications
Schweigler, Stefan; Kainradl, Anna-Christina; Kohlen, Helen; Kriebernegg, Ulla; Trinkaus, Eva-Maria (Eds.). Intersectionality Matters – Age, Care, Power Relations. Edited Volume: Special Issue. Linköping. International Journal of Ageing and Later Life, 2026.
Sprung, Annette; Wegleitner, Klaus. “Learning for a Caring Society at the Intersection of Aging and Migration.” Educational Gerontology: An International Journal, 2026, pp. 1–14, doi:10.1080/03601277.2026.2647771.
De Bettin Padolin, Nina. “Care as Resistance: Indigenous Feminist and Queer Survivance in The Marrow Thieves.” Postcolonial Text. Special Issue: Women Remembering Power and Violence, 2026.
Schweigler, Stefan; Kainradl, Anna-Christina; Kohlen, Helen; Kriebernegg, Ulla; Trinkaus, Eva-Maria. “Examining Aging and Care Through an Intersectional-Sensitive Lens.” International Journal of Ageing and Later Life. Advance Access, 2026, pp. 1–12.
Schuchter, Patrick, Radinger, Sandra, Rieger, Stefanie V., Wegleitner, Klaus. “‘Stay Curious’: Guest Experiences of Philosophical Counselling in Palliative Care – A Qualitative Study.” BMC Palliative Care. 2026.
Wegleitner, Klaus; Sprung, Annette; Kainradl, Anna-Christina; Pupić, Dženana; Kukovetz, Brigitte; Kriebernegg, Ulla. “Social Participation and Active Citizenship of Older Adults in Caring Neighbourhoods: Insights from the Inter- and Transdisciplinary Project Caring-Living-Labs Graz.” Berliner Journal für Soziologie, 2026. pp. 1–22, doi:10.1007/s11609-025-00585-0.
Kainradl, Anna-Christina. “Home Care for Sale: The Transnational Brokering of Senior Care in Europe.” Brigitte Aulenbacher, Helma Lutz, Ewa Palenga-Möllenbeck, and Karin Schwiter (Eds.): Feministische Studien: Zeitschrift für interdisziplinäre Frauen- und Geschlechterforschung, vol. 25, no. 2, 2025, pp. 311–314, doi:10.1515/fs-2025-0041.
Hartung, Heike; Kriebernegg, Ulla. “Pflege, Sorge und Care in gesellschaftlichen Debatten Ein sorgender Blick aus Perspektive der Cultural Care Studies.” Kulturräume. Das kubia Magazin, vol. 29, 2025, pp. 15–19.
De Bettin Padolin, Nina. “Fairly Traceable: Allegorical Depiction of Environmental Violence against Indigenous Peoples.” Laura Schmitz-Justen; Laura A. Zander; Hanna Luise Kroll; Laura Wittmann (Eds.): Feminist Perspectives on Law and Literature, Berlin, De Gruyter, 2025, pp. 221–242.
Weßel, Merle; Kainradl, Anna-Christina; Langmann, Elisabeth. “Intersectional Perspectives on Vulnerability: Analysing Layers of Anxiety Disorders in Older Adults.” Zeitschrift für Ethik und Moralphilosophie, vol. 1, 2025, pp. 1–15, doi:10.1007/s42048-025-00210-y.
Wohlmann, Anita; Kriebernegg, Ulla. “Gesundes Alter: Age Studies und Public Health Humanities.” Solveig Lena Hansen; Henning Schmidt-Semisch (Eds.): Kunst Kultur Gesundheit: Perspektiven der Public Health Humanities, Bielefeld, transcript, 2025, pp. 33–48.
Langmann, Elisabeth; Kainradl, Anna-Christina; Weßel, Merle; Rokvity, Alekszandra. “Endometriosis in Later Life: An Intersectional Analysis from the Perspective of Epistemic Injustice.” Medicine, Healthcare and Philosophy, 2024, pp. 1–9, doi:10.1007/s11019-024-10245-4.
Kainradl, Anna-Christina. “Perspectives on Vulnerability from the Narratives of Older Migrants.” Zeitschrift für Gerontologie und Geriatrie, vol. 1, 2024, pp. 1–6, doi:10.1007/s00391-024-02328-x.
Kainradl, Anna; Kukovetz, Brigitte; Pupic, Dzenana, Sprung, Annette; Wegleitner, Klaus. “Social Participation of Older People with Migration Experiences through the Lens of Active Citizenship and Caring Communities.” Österreichisches Jahrbuch für Soziale Arbeit = Annual Review of Social Work and Social Pedagogy, vol. 6, no. 1, 2024, pp. 37–58, doi:10.30424/OEJS2406037.
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.