PORTFOLIO: Aging into Disability/Disability into Aging: An Interview with Sophie Sartain

Authors

  • Christine Verbruggen Catholic University of Leuven, Faculty of Social Sciences, Dpt of Social and Cultural Anthropology
  • Sophie Sartain Filmmaker, Katahdin Productions, Los Angeles, CA, USA

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5195/aa.2021.339

Abstract

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Author Biography

Christine Verbruggen, Catholic University of Leuven, Faculty of Social Sciences, Dpt of Social and Cultural Anthropology

I’m a trained social and cultural anthropologist (Catholic University of Leuven 2018) and historian (Catholic University of Leuven 2005) and work in the field of ageing, dementia and disability studies.  My master’s thesis explored dwelling as world-building of elderly in a Flemish nursing home for people with the diagnosis of dementia.  In my doctoral research (Catholic University of Leuven) I will engage in long-term participatory ethnographic research with community-dwelling elderly with dementia and aim to support our communication on their ongoing, rhizomatic narrative and inclusive trajectories through audiovisual media.  I am theoretically inspired by post-phenomenology, affect and materiality studies, feminist and posthuman theory and aim to bring this conceptual apparatus to bear on a more symmetrical, realist engagement with experiential differences, while reflexively relating to the politics and poetics of ageing, dementia and narrativity. 

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2021-05-11

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