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Jason Danely
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Unsettled Futures: Carceral Circuits and Old Age in Japan @VanderbiltUP https://tinyurl.com/mr2ny5r6
Reader in Anthropology|decarcerating ageing, care ethics, frailty, chronic living
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December 5, 2025 at 2:52 PM
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.
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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...
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December 3, 2025 at 1:40 PM
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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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
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September 15, 2025 at 12:35 AM
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📆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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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...
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September 1, 2025 at 8:37 AM
📆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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September 1, 2025 at 8:30 AM
Education is liberation. Congrats to these graduates and all the educators who supported them!
August 28, 2025 at 9:39 AM
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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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.
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July 25, 2025 at 8:40 PM
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June 23, 2025 at 7:40 PM
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June 18, 2025 at 2:12 PM
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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June 18, 2025 at 11:02 AM
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?
June 18, 2025 at 10:48 AM
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"[A]nother [incarcerated] man ... turned 81 last fall. He is paralyzed from the waist down. He and I both know he will die here."
June 16, 2025 at 1:05 AM
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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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...
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April 27, 2025 at 8:04 PM
Reposted by Jason Danely
"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."
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.
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April 24, 2025 at 9:09 PM
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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April 18, 2025 at 8:39 AM
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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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!
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March 17, 2025 at 11:06 AM
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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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.
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February 23, 2025 at 12:18 PM
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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February 2, 2025 at 1:56 PM