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  • Aging with her garden: Mutu...
    Dupuis, Constance

    Journal of aging studies, June 2024, 2024-06-00, 20240601, Letnik: 69
    Journal Article

    What can caring for, and being cared for by, a garden teach us about aging well? This article is a narrative exploration of care, aging, and wellbeing in later life through conversations with an older woman and her garden in Toronto, Canada during the months of the COVID-19 pandemic. The focus is on the interconnectedness of care across generations and species. Moving away from conventional generational scripts, the article expands notions of care and aging with an intersectional, feminist and decolonial approach to relationality across time and space. The article uses interviews, photovoice-inspired sessions, and autoethnography, to look at aging and wellbeing as relational and more-than-human relationality. It extends the ethics of care beyond traditional boundaries, embracing perspectives that challenge normative assumptions of gender, age, and interspecies relations. The article aims to contribute to the current debates around colonial research logics, though a critical feminist understanding of relationality and embodied learning. It emphasizes the importance of connecting across generations, seeing land as a way to restore human and more-than-human relations while prefiguring a more care-full present. •Caring for and being cared for by a garden can teach us about aging otherwise.•Learning from other-than-humans requires learning to know their animacy.•Autoethnography can be a relational entry point to engage with other-than-human.•Feminist living/researching is a methodological valuing of process over outcome.