📢Last day! Fragile Resonance: Caring for Older Family Members in Japan and England is 44% OFF❗

What's life like after prison for older people in Japan? 'Unsettled Futures' is a snapshot of the lives of people impacted by ageism, ableism, and criminalisation. Use HOLIDAYS50 to get 50% off the book at Vanderbilt University Press (less than $18!) www.vanderbiltuniversitypress.com/978082650700...

It is #keironohi - Respect for the Aged Day in Japan, where 29.4% are over 65, including 100k centenarians. But what does 'respect' mean when Japan also arrests and imprisons more older people (proportionately) than anywhere else? RESPECT=ending incarceration americanethnologist.org/online-conte...

Registration is now open! 📆19th Sept. 12-2pm (BST) - online free Join @JRAI SI Eds Lone Grøn and Lotte Meinert to launch 'Aging Time Beings' ⏳ I'll be introducing my #openaccess article, 'Doing time in old age: unsettling ethics in carceral circuits' therai.org.uk/events/jrai-...

📆Mark your calendar! October 11th (Sat) ⏰6pm IST/8:30am EST I'll be talking with Diete Humblet about #UnsettledFuturesbook and working with/for older justice-impacted people for the new @CAARNet series. Link TBA in comments #booktalk #agingresearch #carcerality #agingJapan @VanderbiltUP

Education is liberation. Congrats to these graduates and all the educators who supported them!

Fresh off the pressed "No Futures " Lexicon edited by Matthew Wolf-Meyer. Thanks to Ulla Kriebernegg for writing about 'geronticide' with me! www.publicbooks.org/tag/no-futur...

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Thrilled to be part of this #openaccess🔓 Special Issue of #JRAI on 'Aging Time Beings' ⌛edited by Lone Grøn & Lotte Meinert. Amazing pieces by Cohen, Mattingly, Louw, Taylor, Reynolds-Whyte, and Robbins! Cover Maria Speyer @bigblackdrawings rai.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/14679655...

I've been living in England for almost 11 years now and still picking up the lingo. Today's mystery: what do they call a '#potluck'? I found 'bring-and-share', 'Jacob's join', 'picky-bits' and 'fuddle'. Any other possible contenders for a meal where everyone brings a homemade dish?

"[A]nother [incarcerated] man ... turned 81 last fall. He is paralyzed from the waist down. He and I both know he will die here."

New #openaccess article just published in Japan Forum. Written with Fuyuki Makino and Yiannis Papadakis. Examines how social and economic inequality determines who gets to be close to whom before (and after) death. #necropolitics #cemetery #graves www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

"Given a chance to remain in the country, Mr. Blair began to rebuild his life. He enrolled at a Columbia program for former prisoners, the Justice-in-Education Initiative, and was considering applying for a doctoral program."

New open access article out in #japanforum! Written with Fuyuki Makino and Yiannis Papadakis www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... #necrosociality #deathscapes #cemeteries #Graves #closeness #Japan

I've been thinking about fragility, frailty,& vulnerability as a ground for cultivating aesthetic and ethical sensibilities for a while, but Nishikawa Iku's work takes this to another level. Those in Oxford, come along for free demo and discussion with @kintsugioxford Reg 🔗 in bio

If you are in Oxford on Friday, join us at noon for a special double book launch event. I'll be speaking about #unsettledfuturesbook @VanderbiltUP and the challenges of life after prison for older adults. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/healthy-ag...

Thrilled to host 3 amazing presenters at Oxford Brookes this Wed for a special event on Criminal Justice in Japan 🇯🇵⚖️ #Japan #crime #prison #deathpenalty www.brookes.ac.uk/about-brooke...

Prison populations are ageing. Incarcerated people 50+: 🇺🇸 🇬🇧 17% 🇯🇵 44% This book is about the lives and stories beyond the numbers. It tells a new and urgent story of the social consequences of ageism and the need to imagine abolition as a multi generational, lifelong movement. 🔗in bio