Forms of Aging

In this special issue, contributors examine the forms that underwrite the representation of age and aging. The authors ask, “How do forms make aging more (or less) visible? How does form shape the limits of who counts as old? What structures give rise to a view of older people as essential or dispensable to society?” The turn to form, the contributors argue, provides a new set of tools for grappling with the ageism that is engrained in the systems that marginalize older people.

Contributors: Elizabeth Barry, Alice Crossley, Daniel Dufournaud, Jade Elizabeth French, João Paulo Guimarães, Jacob Jewusiak, Vanessa Joosen, Katherine Kruger, Aagje Swinnen, Pieter Vermeulen, Nathaniel A. Windon, Anita Wohlmann, Hailee Yoshizaki-Gibbons