Linking Ages

Anna Wanka leads a DFG-funded Emmy-No ether research group on “Linking Ages – The Socio-Material Practices of Un/Doing Age across the Life-Course” at Goethe University, Frankfurt, Germany.Tabea Freutel-Funke, MA, is a researcher at the University of Stuttgart specialized in childhood and qualitative research methods and a first moment Linking Ages funding member and enthusiast.Sabine Andresen is Professor of Social Pedagogy and Family Research at the Department of Educational Sciences at the Goethe-University in Frankfurt/Main.Frank Oswald, PhD, is Professor for Interdisciplinary Ageing Research (IAW), Chair of the Frankfurt Forum for interdisciplinary Ageing Research (FFIA) at the Goethe University, Germany and Director of the Center AGING for Early Career Researcher at the Goethe Graduate Academy (GRADE).

• Section I: Theories of childhood and later lifeLinking Ages – An Invitation to a New Agenda in Life Stage Research1. Age Matters: Linking Age-Related Concepts in Childhood and Ageing Research2. I just want to help! – Autonomy violation in children and older adultsSection II: Method(ologie)s of childhood and ageing research3. Rethinking Life Stories in the Context of Civic Engagement: The Life Diagram and its Potential for Ageing and Childhood Research4. Linking Ages: Developing Walking Methods for Lifecourse Research5. ‘I wish they’d stop eating the props!’ – Two Novice Researchers’ Refection on their Participatory Research with Children and Older People6. Linking Ages - Reflexive Transition Research in Childhood and Later Life through Interpretations with Change of SignSection III: Empirical insights from a Linking-Ages perspectiveIIIa. Ageing in time and place7. Age Transitions Crossing Childhood, Youth and Old Age: Approaching Space and Age Relationally from an Urban Everyday Life Perspective8. Age-based representations of time. Re-thinking temporalities through intergenerational encountersIIIb. Playfulness as a link between childhood and later life 9. Play Across the Life Course: An Anthropology of Play in Childhood and Old Age10. Planning for PlayIIIc. Growing up and old in a digitized world11. Technological Relationality and Transforming Perceptions of Childhood12. "What shall I write tomorrow?" When older women reclaim new life course on FacebookIIId. Un/doing age in work and consumption13. In and out of the labour market – A Linking Ages Perspective on labour market transitions in early and late adulthood14. Different life phases and the limits of consumption: opportunities and barriersIIIe. Experiencing violence in childhood and later life15. Testimonies about child sexual abuse in the 1950s. Bearing witness and the concept of linking ages16. Does an abusive family history cause elder abuse and neglect?17. Protection From Violence in Home Care Settings for Older Adults and Lessons Learned from Child Protection18. Un/Doing Violence and Un/Doing Care – Mapping Boundary-Making Practices of Violence in Elder Care from a Transdisciplinary PerspectiveIIIf. Linking Ages perspectives on health and care19. Children of old age? Infantilization of people living with dementia20. To be Seen and Heard: Relational Caring Meets Lived Childhoods in Relationships Between Young Children and People Living with Dementia in Long-term Care Homes21. The generational conflict as a social construct of certainty to manage the ambiguities of the corona crisisIIIg. Children’s and older adults’ rights and wellbeing22. ‘I thought I was going to die’: Bodily Autonomy and the Misuse of Restrictive Practices in Aged Care and Youth Detention Settings23. Revisiting the Cascais Protocol – Age constructions and reconstruction in an ageing policy design process24. Investigating the Association between Childhood Circumstances and Old Age Quality in GhanaConclusion25. Conclusions: A Linking Ages Dialogue between Childhood, Age Studies, and Beyond