From Legacies to Futures

Katja Seidel is a Senior Lecturer at the Unit for Peace and Conflict Studies at the University of Innsbruck and co-Director of the ‘ethnocineca – International Documentary Film Festival’ in Vienna. She has conducted fieldwork in Argentina, Nicaragua, Ethiopia, Spain and Germany, and co-directed the Holocaust research project ‘A Letter to the Stars’ in Vienna.

• AcknowledgementsForewordJay SokolovskyIntroduction: Ageing in a Time of CrisisChapter 1. Social Worlds: Living, Learning and LiaisingChapter 2. Moving through the WorldChapter 3. Working WorldsChapter 4. Financial Worlds: Spending and AffordingChapter 5. Informal Care Worlds: Providing CareChapter 6. Formal Care Worlds: Receiving CareChapter 7. Legacies and Future WorldsConclusion: Age, Agency and a SummaryEpilogueAppendix: Participant IndexReferencesIndex

“This a delightful kaleidoscope of countless aspects of growing old ... it is a unique book in the sense that it presents a rich collection of ‘vignettes’ of elderly people across Europe. It is something that I have not come across before in anthropology.” • Sjaak van der Geest, University of Amsterdam