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Agin Time Beeings

Datum
19. Sep­tem­ber 2025 

JRAI Jour­nal Release


JRAI SPECIAL ISSUE: „AGING TIME BEINGS”

Edi­tors:
Lone Grøn (Pro­fes­sor, VIVE, Dan­ish Cen­ter for Social Sci­ence Research)
Lotte Mein­ert (Pro­fes­sor, Depart­ment of Anthro­pol­o­gy, Aarhus University)

Spe­cial issue contributors:
Cheryl Mat­ting­ly (Pro­fes­sor, Depart­ments of Anthro­pol­o­gy and Phi­los­o­phy, Aarhus University)
Susan Reynolds Whyte (Pro­fes­sor, Depart­ment of Anthro­pol­o­gy, Uni­ver­si­ty of Copenhagen)
Maria Louw (Asso­ciate Pro­fes­sor, Depart­ment of Anthro­pol­o­gy, Aarhus University)
Lawrence Cohen (Pro­fes­sor, Anthro­pol­o­gy and South and South­east Asian Stud­ies; co-direc­tor of the Med­ical Anthro­pol­o­gy Pro­gram, Uni­ver­si­ty of Cal­i­for­nia, Berkeley)
Jason Dane­ly (Read­er in Anthro­pol­o­gy, Oxford Brookes University)
Janelle Tay­lor (Pro­fes­sor of Anthro­pol­o­gy, Uni­ver­si­ty of Toronto)
and JRAI asso­ciate editor:
Cathrine Deg­nen (Pro­fes­sor of Anthro­pol­o­gy, New­cas­tle University)

Propos­ing to under­stand humans as time beings, this spe­cial issue of the JRAI invites read­ers to explore the intri­cate rela­tion­ship between age­ing and time through par­tic­u­lar expe­ri­ences of age­ing time beings. What can we learn about time and gen­er­al anthro­po­log­i­cal the­o­ry by tak­ing seri­ous­ly expe­ri­ences of age­ing time beings from dif­fer­ent places in the world? Draw­ing on ethno­graph­ic insights from Cana­da, Den­mark, India, Japan, Kyr­gyzs­tan, Ugan­da, and the USA, the col­lec­tion chal­lenges con­ven­tion­al rep­re­sen­ta­tions of age­ing by exam­in­ing diverse modes of expe­ri­enc­ing and mea­sur­ing time. It probes how large-scale his­tor­i­cal changes, insti­tu­tion­al time regimes, inti­mate rhythms, and sin­gu­lar moments of lived expe­ri­ence inter­twine to reveal the mul­ti­plic­i­ty – and inher­ent ground­less­ness – of tem­po­ral real­i­ties. By engag­ing with dom­i­nant nar­ra­tives such as ‘active age­ing’ and ‘fil­ial piety’, as well as less con­ven­tion­al val­ues and poet­ics of age­ing and time, the issue fore­grounds both the uncer­tain­ties and the pos­si­bil­i­ties of ‘the good’ that may emerge in lat­er life.

You can read the Spe­cial issue here: https://rai.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/14679655/2025/31/S1
It is cur­rent­ly open access.