Concepts and History
Reimagining the Life Course
The developments of scientific and medical technologies as well as informatic and economic networks in recent decades have presented a challenge to, but also the opportunity to rethink, the conception of “the human.” As people live longer and their experiences of life course and ageing change and become diverse, there is also a need to reconsider the life course and what it may mean to live and age with dignity.
In response, this project seeks to expand our ways of contemplating the life course. What is the “human” life course and what could it be? How do we live with humans and nonhuman others? What do we think about the body, environment, social justice, generational relationships, and the future? Addressing these questions, the project adopts a text-based approach, analyzing literary and cultural texts while engaging with relevant theories and debates in ageing studies as well as feminist, queer, ecocritical, and other literary and critical perspectives. Ultimately, this project will demonstrate the potential of humanistic studies in considering contemporary challenges and questions.
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