Reflections on filming in a care home
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2bAdoZompBU
Conference: Aging in the pandemic era
October 2022, Mytilene
Family and Kinship Studies Lab
Department of Social Anthropology and History
University of the Aegean
Research Program: BIO-AGE, The biosocial experience of aging during the
COVID-19 pandemic. The research project was supported by the Hellenic
Foundation of Research and Innovation (H.F.R.I.) under the 4 th Call for Action
“Science and Society” – Emblematic Action – “Interventions to address the
economic and social effects of the COVID-19 pandemic” (Project Number:
04878)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2bAdoZompBU
Conference: Aging in the pandemic era
October 2022, Mytilene
Family and Kinship Studies Lab
Department of Social Anthropology and History
University of the Aegean
Research Program: BIO-AGE, The biosocial experience of aging during the
COVID-19 pandemic. The research project was supported by the Hellenic
Foundation of Research and Innovation (H.F.R.I.) under the 4 th Call for Action
“Science and Society” – Emblematic Action – “Interventions to address the
economic and social effects of the COVID-19 pandemic” (Project Number:
04878)
NEWS!!
Program for International Conference on AGING IN THE PANDEMIC ERA
Friday 14th and Saturday 15th October 2022
For more information, visit https://bio-age.weebly.com/conference.html
The Research
The COVID-19 pandemic has led to worldwide reconfigurations causing multiple, immediate and long-term effects in everyday and institutional life. The central aim of this project is to contribute to the understanding of the societal consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic by studying and arguing towards the biosocial experience of COVID-19 in the Greek ethnographic context specifically in relation to the elderly (age 65 and over).
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The project aims at elucidating the (g)local configurations of the ways the dominant biomedical mobilization following the pandemic conjuncture is morphed into a biopolitical project. This will be achieved via methodologically focusing on a) the experiences of the elderly, biomedical staff, care workers and experts, and, b) the anthropological mapping of the formal state and biomedical discourses and practices as they construct life with/after COVID-19.
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The key challenge of this project is to unravel the relational attributes of what we see as the emergence of bio-responsibility and bio-care as central pillars of securing societal cohesion in life with/after COVID-19, through the prism of the elderly biosocial experience of the pandemic. This will be elaborated by tracing both biomedical and lay, “biological” and “social” articulations of the COVID-19 disease, in relation to the theoretical problematization of the distinction between the biological and the social in understanding and in monitoring the pandemic as a biosocial phenomenon.
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