Description: This collection presents the first substantial encounter between aging studies and ecocriticism. By putting both fields into conversation, it addresses competing ideologies of efficiency, exploitation, and endurance versus those of sustenance, care, and survival.
Brief description: Ulla Kriebernegg is professor in cultural aging and care studies and director of the Center for Interdisciplinary Research on Aging and Care (CIRAC) at the University of Graz, Austria.
Review Quotes:
"This book is a smart and insightful collection of chapters exploring "growing old at the end of the world." I was immediately taken in by the similarities between aging studies and ecocritical approaches to understanding and deconstructing temporalities and the passing of time and couldn't help but wonder: Why has it taken so long to have a book such as this? It will become required reading for my future classes." --Kate de Medeiros, professor of sociology and gerontology, Miami University
"This remarkable book tackles the relationship between two interdisciplinary fields: Aging Studies and Ecocriticism. The issues presented in this volume are thought-provoking. The depth of dialogue challenges the reader to think in more complex terms about the encounters between the two fields. The text is full of fresh ideas which will surely serve as a major resource for the needed scholarly interaction between environmental and aging studies in the humanities." --Benyamin Schwarz, PhD, Professor Emeritus of Architectural Studies, the University of Missouri