TY  - JOUR
A1  - Gallistl, Vera
A1  - Wanka, Anna
T1  - Spacetimematter of aging – the material temporalities of later life
T2  - Journal of aging studies
N2  - Material gerontology poses the question of how aging processes are co-constituted in relation to different forms of (human and non-human) materiality. This paper makes a novel contribution by asking when aging processes are co-constituted and how these temporalities of aging are entangled with different forms of materiality. In this paper, we explore the entanglements of temporality and materiality in shaping later life by framing them as spacetimematters (Barad, 2013). By drawing on empirical examples from data from a qualitative case study in a long-term care (LTC) facility, we ask how the entanglement of materiality and temporality of a fall-detection sensor co-constitutes aging. We focus on two types of material temporality that came to matter in age-boundary-making practices at this site: the material temporality of a technology-in-training and the material temporality of (false) alarms. Both are interwoven, produced and reproduced through spacetimematterings that established age-boundaries. Against the backdrop of these findings, we propose to understand age(ing) as a situated, distributed, more-than-human process of practices: It emerges in an assemblage of technological innovation discourses, problematizations of demographic change, digitized and analog practices of care and caring, bodily functioning, daily routines, institutionalized spaces and much more. Finally, we discuss the role power plays in those spacetimematterings of aging and conclude with a research outlook for material gerontology.
KW  - Materiality
KW  - Temporality
KW  - Long-term care
KW  - Algorithms
KW  - Boundary-making practices
Y1  - 2023
UR  - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/79138
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-791388
SN  - 0890-4065
VL  - 67
IS  - 101182
PB  - Elsevier
CY  - Amsterdam
ER  -