Linking Ages A Dialogue between Childhood and Ageing Research

Section I: Theories of Childhood and Later Life

Introduction: Linking Ages – An Invitation to a New Agenda in Life Stage Research

Tabea Freutel-Funke and Anna Wanka

1. Age Matters: Linking Age-Related Concepts in Childhood and Ageing Research

Anne Carolina Ramos and Insa Fooken

2. I Just Want to Help!: Autonomy Violation in Children and Older Adults

Regina Gerlich

Section II: Method(ologie)s of Childhood and Ageing Research

3. Rethinking Life Stories in the Context of Civic Engagement: The Life Diagram and its Potential for Ageing and Childhood Research

Bas Dikmans and Karima Chacur

4. Linking Ages: Developing Walking Methods for Lifecourse Research

Aled Singleton

5. ‘I wish They’d Stop Eating the Props!’: Two Novice Researchers’ Reflection on Their Participatory Research with Children and Older People

Trish Finegan and Muireann Ranta

6. Linking Ages - Reflexive Transition Research in Childhood and Later Life through Interpretations with Change of Sign

Tabea Freutel-Funke, Helena Müller, Deborah Nägler, Anna Wanka, and Frank Oswald

Section III: Empirical Insights from a Linking Ages Perspective

IIIa. Ageing in Time and Place

7. Age Transitions Crossing Childhood, Youth and Old Age: Approaching Space and Age Relationally from an Urban Everyday Life Perspective

Angelika Gabauer, Sabine Knierbein, and Korinna Lindinger

8. Age-based Representations of Time: Re-thinking Temporalities through Intergenerational Encounters

Natalie Davet

IIIb. Playfulness as a Link Between Childhood and Later Life 

9. Play Across the Life Course: An Anthropology of Play in Childhood and Old Age

Carrie Ryan and Paulina Pérez-Duarte Mendiola

10. Planning for Play

Rachel Barber, Madison Empey-Salisbury, Maxwell Hartt, and Patricia Collins

IIIc. Growing Up and Old in a Digitized World

11. Technological Relationality and Transforming Perceptions of Childhood

Seran Demiral

12. "What Shall I Write Tomorrow?" When Older Women Reclaim New Life Course on Facebook

Priyanka Borpujari

IIId. Un/Doing Age in Work and Consumption

13. In and out of the Labour Market – A Linking Ages Perspective on Labour Market Transitions in Early and Late Adulthood

Anna Wanka and Andreas Walther

14. Different Life Phases and the Limits of Consumption: Opportunities and Barriers

Melanie Jaeger-Erben, Birgit Blättel-Mink, Doris Fuchs, Konrad Götz, Nina Langen and Henrike Rau

IIIe. Experiencing Violence in Childhood and Later Life

15. Testimonies About Child Sexual Abuse in the 1950s: Bearing Witness and the Concept of Linking Ages

Sabine Andresen, Johanna Christ, and Lia Pollmann

16. Does an Abusive Family History Cause Elder Abuse and Neglect?

Marcela Petrová Kafková

17. Protection From Violence in Home Care Settings for Older Adults and Lessons Learned from Child Protection

Nadine Konopik, Klaus Pfeiffer, and Frank Oswald

18. Un/Doing Violence and Un/Doing Care: Mapping Boundary-Making Practices of Violence in Elder Care from a Transdisciplinary Perspective

Grit Höppner, Anna Wanka, and Vera Gallistl

IIIf. Linking Ages Perspectives on Health and Care

19. Children of Old Age? Infantilisation of People Living with Dementia

Valerie Keller

20. To be Seen and Heard: Relational Caring Meets Lived Childhoods in Relationships Between Young Children and People Living with Dementia in Long-term Care Homes

Melanie Lalani

21. The Generational Conflict as a Social Construct of Certainty to Manage the Ambiguities of the Corona Crisis

Jana Heinz and Helga Pelizäus

IIIg. Children’s and Older Adults’ Rights and Wellbeing

22. ‘I Thought I Was Going to Die’:  Bodily Autonomy and the Misuse of Restrictive Practices in Aged Care and Youth Detention Settings

Teresa Somes and Holly Doel-Mackaway

23. Involving the Community in Ageing Policy Design: The Cascais Protocol

Gustavo Sugahara and Marta Osório de Matos

24. Investigating the Association between Childhood Circumstances and Old Age Quality in Ghana

Delali A. Dovie

25. Conclusions: A Linking Ages Dialogue between Childhood, Age Studies, and Beyond

Tabea Freutel-Funke and Anna Wanka

Biography

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).