PRECARITY AND AGING: UNDERSTANDING CHANGING FORMS OF RISK AND INSECURITY IN LATER LIFE

This symposium addresses pressing social and political debates about the growing precarity of human lives today. To date, the concept of precarity has been used in fields such as economics, labor studies, sociology, and philosophy, and has drawn attention to risks arising from globalization and neo-liberalization. The symposium, drawing on papers from a forthcoming edited collection, will apply the concept of precarity to a range of topic areas …