INTRODUCTION: COVID19 and Aging Bodies – What Do We Mean When We Say That Older Adults Are Most ‘Affected’ by COVID-19?

Authors

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

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5195/aa.2020.325

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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Published

2020-12-14

Issue

Vol. 41 No. 2 (2020)

Section

COVID-19 and Aging Bodies

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