Jason Danely

Artwork as deathwork Art has a unique capacity for addressing the existential problem of the unidentified death in ways that afford the reparative possibility of care, reflection and mourning within and beyond local, d...

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@jasondanely.bsky.social of Oxford Brookes Social Sciences & K Taylor of Oxford Brookes School of Arts:

Artwork as deathwork

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

This was a great webinar - Universities have so much potential for including older people in ways that benefit everyone - it's a no-brainer! Thanks Gerry and Shelley!

Unsettled Futures – Vanderbilt University Press There are two prevailing myths about Japanese society: first, that it has a successful elderly welfare system and second, that it has a successful criminal j...

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!)
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Unsettle-able by Jason Danely - American Ethnological Society In the opening pages of the The Care Manifesto (2020), The Care Collective (a group of academics and activists across different disciplinary and political

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
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JRAI Special Issue Launch: Aging Time Beings - Royal Anthropological Institute JRAI Special Issue Launch Event Friday 19 September 2025 12.00-2.00 pm BST This is an online event. Register here: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_RmUk2ictTeqIZorofXTy-A#/registration JRAI...

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'

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

No Future Lexicon Archives - Public Books Public Books was founded in 2012 by Sharon Marcus, a literary critic, and Caitlin Zaloom, an anthropologist. The mission was simple: to create a new home for intellectual debate online.

Fresh off the pressed "No Futures " Lexicon edited by Matthew Wolf-Meyer.
Thanks to Ulla Kriebernegg for writing about 'geronticide' with me!
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Fragile Resonance by Jason Danely | Paperback | Cornell University Press Fragile Resonance describes the paths carers take as they make meaning of their experiences and find a sense of moral purpose to sustain them and guide their decisions. When a parent or partner become...

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Unpaid care of older people is a critical site of both familial intimacy and demographic governance, with touch, grief, fatigue and imagination flowing between them. 🔗 in comments

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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
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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."

Close together and far apart: necrosocialities in urban Japan Closeness determines the possibilities of the dead to be materially and spiritually cared for by the living and to receive the consolation of an afterlife among deceased family, friends, or pets, r...

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

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21 Years Later, Deported Back to a ‘Home’ He Barely Knew Two decades had passed since Nascimento Blair was last in Jamaica, his homeland. Much had changed, including Mr. Blair himself.

"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."

Close together and far apart: necrosocialities in urban Japan Closeness determines the possibilities of the dead to be materially and spiritually cared for by the living and to receive the consolation of an afterlife among deceased family, friends, or pets, r...

New open access article out in #japanforum! Written with Fuyuki Makino and Yiannis Papadakis
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#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
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HEALTHY AGEING & CARE DOUBLE BOOK LAUNCH Join us for the launch of two exciting books on healthy ageing and care, happening in person on 21st March 2025!

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.
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The future of criminal justice in Japan: facing challenges, finding opportunities - Oxford Brookes University Japan has one of the lowest rates of crime in world, but it still faces many challenges. Guest speakers from Japan and Oxford will discuss the future of the death penalty, prison arts, and the yakuza.

Thrilled to host 3 amazing presenters at Oxford Brookes this Wed for a special event on Criminal Justice in Japan 🇯🇵⚖️
#Japan #crime #prison #deathpenalty

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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.
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