RESOURCES

 

Below is a list of publications that have come out of the Aging Activisms research.
If you are interested in reading any of the pieces, email us at  agingactivisms@gmail.com!

 

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Books

Chazan, May, Melissa Baldwin, and Pat Evans. Eds. 2018. Unsettling Activisms: Critical Interventions on Aging, Gender, and Social Change. Toronto: Women's Press / Canadian Scholars Press. Check out the introduction here.

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Chazan, May. 2015. The Grandmothers’ Movement: Solidarity and Survival in the Time of AIDS. Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press.

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Chazan, May, Lisa Helps, Anna Stanley, and Sonali Thakkar. Eds. 2011. Home and Native Land: Unsettling Multiculturalism in Canada. Toronto: Between the Lines Press. 

 

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Articles

Chazan, May. 2023. Crip Time and Radical Care in/as Artful Politics. In Special Issue: Rethinking Artful Politics: Bodies of Difference Remaking Body Worlds. Social Sciences. Find It here.

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Chazan, May, and Madeline Whetung. 2022. “Carving a future out of the past and the present”: Rethinking aging futures. Journal of Aging Studies. Find It here.

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Chazan, May, and Melissa Baldwin. 2021. Queering generativity and futurity: LGBTQ2IA+ stories of resistance, resurgence, and resilience. International Journal of Ageing and Later Life. Find It here.

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Chazan, May, and Melissa Baldwin. 2020. Learning to be refused: exploring refusal, consent and care in storytelling research. Postcolonial Studies. Find it here.

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Chazan, May. 2020. Ode to Odenabe: Intergenerational storytelling and the art of making. Anthropology & Aging 41(1): 95-106. Find it here.

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Chazan, May, and Jenn Cole. 2020. Making memory sovereign/ making sovereign memory. Memory Studies. Find it here.

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Chazan, May, and Melissa Baldwin. 2020. Granny Solidarity: Understanding Age and Generational Dynamics in Climate Justice Movements. Studies in Social Justice. Find it here.

 

Chazan, May, and Melissa Baldwin. 2020. Grannies, Rockers, and Oil Rigs: Mobilizing Age in Intersectional Climate Justice Alliances. In Gendering Globalization, Globalizing Gender: Postcolonial Perspectives, edited by Gül Çaliskan. Oxford University Press. Find it here.

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Chazan, May. 2019. Unsettling aging futures: challenging colonial-normativity in social gerontology. International Journal of Ageing and Later Life. Find it here.

 

Chazan, May. 2019. Making home on Anishinaabe lands: storying settler activisms in Nogojiwanong (Peterborough, Canada). Settler Colonial Studies. Find it here.

 

Chazan, May, and Maddy Macnab. 2018. Doing the feminist intergenerational mic: Digital storytelling methodology as social change praxis. FORUM: Qualitative Social Research 19(2). Find it here. 

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Chazan, May. 2017. Contingent meanings, shifting practices: Grandmother to grandmother solidarity as transnational feminist praxis. Gender, Place, Culture. Find it here.

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Chazan, May, and Melissa Baldwin. 2017. Understanding the complexities of contemporary feminist activism: How the lives of older women activists contest the waves narrative. Feminist Formations 28(3), 70-94. Find it here.

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Chazan, May, and Stephanie Kittmer. 2016. Defying, producing, and overlooking stereotypes? The complexities of mobilizing “grandmotherhood” as political strategy. Journal of Women and Aging, Vol 29 (1). Find it here.

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Chazan, May. 2016. Settler solidarities as praxis: Understanding “granny activism” beyond highly-visible. Journal of Social Movement Studies. Find it here.

 

Chazan, May, Melissa Baldwin, and Laura Madokoro. 2015. Aging, activism, and the archive: Feminist perspectives for the 21st Century. Archivaria 80: 59-87. Find it here.

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Chazan, May. 2013. Everyday mobilizations among grandmothers in South Africa: Survival, support and social change in the era of HIV/AIDS. Ageing and Society, November 2013, pp 1-25. Find it here.

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Chazan, May, and Laura Madokoro. 2012. Social justice, rights, and dignity: A call for a critical feminist framework. Trudeau Foundation Papers: 4 (2). 

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Chazan, May. 2008. Seven ‘deadly’ assumptions: Unpacking the implications of HIV/AIDS among grandmothers in South Africa and beyond. Ageing & Society 28: 935-958. Find it here.

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Reports

Chazan, May, Jillian Ackert, and Melissa Baldwin. 2020. Imagining our futures: Community report. Find it here.

 

Berry Merriam, Dawn, May Chazan, and Anisah Madden. 2018. Stories of Aging Advocacy, Activist Aging, and Community Change: Documenting the Lives and Perspectives of Older Change-Makers in Nogojiwanong/ Peterborough (Ontario). Community dissemination report. Find it here.

 

Chazan, May, Melissa Baldwin, and Jesse Whattam. 2016. Activisms across women’s lives: Rethinking the politics of (grand)mothering, Preliminary analysis of activist oral histories, 2013-15. Community dissemination report. Find it here.

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Chazan, May, and Melissa Baldwin. 2014. “We were raised to believe we could move mountains”: GRAN Report, Preliminary Findings. Community dissemination report. Find it here.