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Infrastructuring ageing: Theorizing non-human agency in ageing and technology studies
Scholars of ageing and technology are becoming increasingly interested in how technology and ageing can be seen as mutually constitutive, an interest that is beginning to form new research agendas, alliances and fields of their own. Different concepts have been used to theorise and analyse this relationship of mutual construction. This article explores a concept from Science and technology studies, which has not previously been put in direct relation to ageing, namely the concept of infrastructure. It proposes the notion of “infrastructuring ageing” as a theoretical-analytical approach for studying the mutual constitution of ageing and technology. This approach implies slightly new versions of, or attentions to, the non-human actor, agency and socio-technical transformation, and opens up to fresh ethnographic views on the social, material and techno-political transformations of ageing.
Infrastructuring ageing: Theorizing non-human agency in ageing and technology studies
Scholars of ageing and technology are becoming increasingly interested in how technology and ageing can be seen as mutually constitutive, an interest that is beginning to form new research agendas, alliances and fields of their own. Different concepts have been used to theorise and analyse this relationship of mutual construction. This article explores a concept from Science and technology studies, which has not previously been put in direct relation to ageing, namely the concept of infrastructure. It proposes the notion of “infrastructuring ageing” as a theoretical-analytical approach for studying the mutual constitution of ageing and technology. This approach implies slightly new versions of, or attentions to, the non-human actor, agency and socio-technical transformation, and opens up to fresh ethnographic views on the social, material and techno-political transformations of ageing.
Infrastructuring ageing: Theorizing non-human agency in ageing and technology studies
Ertner, Sara Marie (author)
2022-04-21
doi:10.3384/ijal.1652-8670.3556
International Journal of Ageing and Later Life; Vol. 15 No. 2 (2022): Ageing with Digital Technologies; 51-76 ; International Journal of Ageing and Later Life; Vol 15 Nr 2 (2022): Ageing with Digital Technologies; 51-76 ; 1652-8670 ; 10.3384/ijal.1652-8670.2022.15.2
Article (Journal)
Electronic Resource
English
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690
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